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Texts -- Lamentations 3:45-66 (NET)

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3:45 You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations . 3:46 פ(Pe) All our enemies have gloated over us; 3:47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction . 3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed . 3:49 ע(Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop ; there will be no break 3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened. 3:51 What my eyes see grieves me– all the suffering of the daughters in my city . 3:52 צ(Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird . 3:53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me. 3:54 The waters closed over my head ; I thought I was about to die . 3:55 ק(Qof) I have called on your name , O Lord , from the deepest pit . 3:56 You heard my plea : “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief !” 3:57 You came near on the day I called to you; you said , “Do not fear !” 3:58 ר(Resh) O Lord , you championed my cause , you redeemed my life . 3:59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord ; pronounce judgment on my behalf! 3:60 You have seen all their vengeance , all their plots against me. 3:61 ש(Sin/Shin) You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me . 3:62 My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long. 3:63 Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs . 3:64 ת(Tav) Pay them back what they deserve , O Lord , according to what they have done . 3:65 Give them a distraught heart ; may your curse be on them ! 3:66 Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven .

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  • This book does not identify its writer. The common view that Jeremiah wrote it rests on a preface in the Greek Septuagint, which the Latin Vulgate adopted and elaborated on. The Septuagint version of Lamentations begins, "And...
  • The book consists of five laments (funeral or mourning songs, elegies). All but the third of these describe the Babylonians' destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and its aftermath. Each chapter exhibits its own special qualit...
  • There are two books in the Old Testament that deal primarily with the problem of suffering. Job treats the problem of personalsuffering, and Lamentations deals with the problem of nationalsuffering. Both books present the pro...
  • The church at the beginning of the twenty-first century is very similar to Judah at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. Our times are very similar to Jeremiah's times. We minister in a cultural context that is remarkably ...
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  • Jeremiah first viewed Jerusalem's destruction as an outsider looking in. Verses 1-7 describe the extent of the desolation and verses 8-11 its cause.1:1 Jeremiah bewailed the abandoned city of Jerusalem that had once been so g...
  • As mentioned previously, this lament is an acrostic in triplets; the same succeeding Hebrew consonant begins three verses instead of just one, as in the previous chapters. The verses are about one third as long as most of tho...
  • The following section of the lament falls into two parts marked by Jeremiah's use of the plural (vv. 41-47) and singular personal pronouns (vv. 48-66). In the first part he called on the Judahites to confess their sins to God...
  • This poem, like the one in chapter 3, contains verses of only two lines each. It is the only non-acrostic chapter in the book, though like chapters 1, 2, and 4, it consists of 22 verses. The doleful qinahmeter is also absent ...
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