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The five chapters of Lamentations may be easily overlooked. Not only is it brief, but it is also sandwiched between the two giants of Old Testament prophecy, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Lamentations also deals with realities which we rather wish were not discussed—consequently the book is little studied. However, although there much here to challenge faith, there is much that builds it up. Lamentations...

The initial presentation is of the poet’s forlorn and desolating experience of anguish in which hope is completely banished. In many respects the sentiments expressed reflect those of the darkest portion in the Psalter, Psalm 88. The poet is not conscious of any intimacy with the LORD, whose name is not even uttered, but at the same time he cannot escape from the all-pervasive and constricting control God has over his life. א 3:1 I am the man ˻who˼ has seen
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