Lamentations
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Session 1 · Lamentations 1–5
Five poems over a city that sits alone.
- The city sits alone like a widow, her lovers have betrayed her, and she confesses that the Lord is in the right because she rebelled against his word.
- The Lord has become like an enemy, swallowing Jacob without pity, silencing festival and vision, and the poet asks the wall of daughter Zion to let tears run down.
- A man who has seen affliction remembers that the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, so he hopes in him and calls the people to search their ways and return.
- Gold has grown dim, children starve in the siege, the anointed of the Lord is captured in their pits, and the punishment of Zion is finished only because the Lord has carried it out.
- The community prays, Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us, confesses that woe belongs to those whose fathers sinned, and asks to be turned and restored as in days of old.