Tag: lamentations
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COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing – 2
Affliction Our hearts in this year of our Lord 2021 still struggle with the affliction of COVID and restless crowds of displaced people displaced from work. All the world suffers a great loss of normalcy as we cry out, “HOW?” COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing – 1 + talk of Jesus .com Even…
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COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing
Solomon’s Jerusalem – the end of an era Until the death of Solomon in 931 B.C., a glorious city of Jerusalem overlooked a great empire blessed by the LORD God, but then the politics of Israel divided the great land. In just a few generations Israel (Samaria) succumbed in 722 B.C. and Judah when Jerusalem…
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Amos – For those who turn justice into wormwood
Whatever is wormwood? Sometimes when we read the Bible, especially the Old Testament and specifically the true Prophets of Scripture, we fail in the imagery of the language of centuries and millennia long past. Amos uses a word “לַעֲנָה” we translate into English as wormwood and most of us naturally ask, “whatever is wormwood?” Truly,…
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Our Lament and Weeping -4- unless You have completely rejected us
We began by outlining his Lament over Jerusalem and continued with Judgment on Jerusalem and Hope through God’s Mercy, where Jeremiah pleas for mercy based on his own suffering. After the four elegies he described the suffering of God’s people. Terrors of the Besieged City Judah refused to listen to God’s warnings through Jeremiah and…
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Our Lament and Weeping -3- What city has not terrors?
God’s repeated warnings to repent had been ignored and destruction of the land follows with terror and deaths as he now joins the captives driven from Jerusalem. From Terror to Elegy After the terrors of Jerusalem at the hand of its enemies are complete Jeremiah shares four sad songs as acrostic elegies. Elegy An Elegy…
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Our Lament and Weeping -2- Judgment
Previously, we asked of Jeremiah’s lament for Jerusalem, “For what hope have any who have turned against the Lord?” He has just said, “For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart. – Lamentations 1:22b And now his elegy will address a just judgment on Jerusalem by the Lord. Judgment on Jerusalem Lamentations…
