Tag: punishment
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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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By the sweat of your face
“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” – Genesis 3:19 Had a rough day at work? Or maybe you have had a tough time finding work. Do you find as many…
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In God We Trusted – 5
The political ‘spin’ has been spun. The gradual fall is begun. How? lament the People… Why? In God we trusted. “Lamentations” was derived from a translation of the title as found in the Latin Vulgate (Vg.) translation of the Greek OT, the Septuagint (LXX), and conveys the idea of “loud cries.” The Hebrew exclamation ekah…
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