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Great Is Your Faithfulness: The Book of Lamentations Simply Explained is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lamentations is not familiar territory for many Christians, yet it deals searchingly with abiding themes such as the spiritual glory of the church and the tragedy when this is lost. It is a book that speaks directly to the confused Christianity and evangelicalism of our day. Richard Brooks’ warm and pastoral exposition applies the great theme of God’s just dealing with a backsliding Judah to...

provision. Daily mercies are continual reminders of divine faithfulness. Verse 24 is without doubt one of the loveliest verses in Lamentations, and surely in the whole of the Bible. The description of the Lord as the believer’s and the church’s ‘portion’ is not exclusive to this verse, though. Particularly memorable is Psalm 73:25–26: ‘Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my
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