Verse 1:3 opens with the underlying premise of Lamentations:<\/p>\n
\nCarried off to a foreign place,<\/em>\u00a0Judah is exiled in misery
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and debased by affliction and hard labor;
She cannot find rest living among the\u00a0pagan<\/em>\u00a0nations.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She tried to run and hide,<\/em>\u00a0but in her distress pursuers have overcome her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThis book is one of the more depressing books in the Bible. You have to understand the period in which it was written around 586bc. If you remember the reading in Jeremiah, it was the period where Babylon had taken and destroyed Israel. The torment they are going through is reflected in the writings.<\/p>\n
Verse 2:3 talks about what happened:<\/p>\n
\nCut down by God\u2019s anger,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0pride and<\/em>\u00a0strength of Israel falls;
He withdrew His right hand\u00a0and stood back<\/em>\u00a0and allowed Israel\u2019s enemies
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to wreak havoc in the land<\/em>.
God has burned and consumed Jacob
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in an insatiable fire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIsrael was handed to their enemies by God and they lost their protection. As we move through this book we see the \u201csetup\u201d for Jesus happening. Israel has lost their ability to repent and save themselves. I pray we are not doing this today, but based on many of the modified gospels being preached today (namely the prosperity gospel) I fear we may be too late.<\/p>\n
Man is like electricity, we follow the path of least resistance. That is until we hit a shunt, switch or diode, or a path like Israel\u2019s that is stopped by God. The road God wants us down is not easy, but is not a complex one either.<\/p>\n
Verse 4:10 captures the despair they must have been living:<\/p>\n
\nJust imagine the injustice:<\/em>\u00a0loving mothers
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0are forced to<\/em>\u00a0cook their babies\u2019 flesh.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Children have become their food!
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nTurning into cannibals to survive is awful. It\u2019s unclear if this is an illustration of the despair or if it actually was happening. Either way the though is unnerving and gives us a glimpse into what happened some 600 years before Roman occupation and Jesus. No wonder they were looking for a warrior and not who they got!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lamentations 1 \u2013 5 Verse 1:3 opens with the underlying premise of Lamentations: Carried off to a foreign place,\u00a0Judah is exiled in misery \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and debased by affliction and hard labor; She cannot find rest living among the\u00a0pagan\u00a0nations. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She tried to run and hide,\u00a0but in her distress pursuers have overcome her. This book is one of … Continue reading “Driven To Eat Their Children”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}