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Lamentations: Day 5 We continue to see the sad condition of Judah and its people. They are worse than slaves. The people have been ravished and abused. They are joyless. They even have to buy their own firewood (4)! Worse…

Lamentations: Day 4 Jeremiah in this chapter describes the suffering of the people of Judah in agonizing detail. The gold in the temple has been defiled by the Babylonians (see also Jeremiah 52:17-19). The “sons of Zion” are now considered…

Lamentations: Day 3 While Chapters 1 and 2 lament the state of Jerusalem and Judah, Chapter 3 gets personal. Jeremiah pours out his emotions before God, describing his afflictions and grieving about his condition. Nothing is working, it seems. In…

Lamentations: Day 2 A prophet of doom cannot be a happy man. Jeremiah’s life-long mission was to deliver bad news to the nation of Judah. Hence, Jeremiah was wrapped up in the knowledge of God’s destruction of his homeland. As…

Lamentations: Day 1 According to the Septuagint (an early Greek translation of the Old Testament) and many Biblical scholars, Jeremiah the prophet wrote Lamentations, right after the destruction of Jerusalem. As we saw in Jeremiah, the people of Judah disobeyed…

The Song of Songs: Chapter 8 As Solomon brought his love song to a close, he once again gave the predominant voice to the woman. Her long sequence in the dialogue actually begins in Song 7:9. We will pick it…