LAMENTATIONS Hope in the Devastation Here is the surprising source of the phrase “Great is Thy faithfulness!” (3:23) Sometimes life just makes you want to scream. It can be a shout of victory, a cry of defeat, or a moan of agony, but it expresses the deepest emotions of your soul. Jeremiah lived life with passion. He was seldom passive and often angry. No other book in the Old Testament contains the kind of raw grief that gives this book its name—Lamentations. By allowing us into his pain and sorrow,