Lamentations 2

September 12, 2022

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Reading along with us in Lamentations? Here’s today’s reading:

Lamentations 2 (NIV)

1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
with the cloud of his anger
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.
2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
the strongholds of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
down to the ground in dishonor..............Continue Reading

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  1. Based on these poems I can only imagine the desolate sight Jerusalem was at this time. So much heartache and destruction and yet all avoidable had they just listened to Jeremiah instead of all the false prophets who’s empty words told them everything would be fine. We like to turn to the words we want to hear, with easy answers but we must be sure to listen to God’s words or our lives can end up like this.

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  2. The Lord has destroyed Jerusalem, His own city, His own people, His own house.
    The Lord was like an enemy.
    He has swallowed up Israel,
    He has swallowed up all her palaces;
    He has destroyed her strongholds,
    And has increased mourning and lamentation
    In the daughter of Judah.

    This is frightening.
    It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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  4. Can’t say that Judah wasn’t warned. Many many times. And how many times are we warned that disobedience brings judgement. Obedience comes from love of God. The more you pray. Read. Fellowship. The more you fall in love with our Lord. Do not want to grieve. But do his will for each of us. We think we have the liberty to do whatever pleases us. But true freedom comes from obeying God. The world has it backwards

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  7. Jerusalem has been judged by God and all that made her distinct and beautiful is destroyed. God had great purposes for her, but those purposes have been set aside because the people rejected God. All those who should have caused them to do right: king, priest and prophet have lead them astray to do wrong. And it is sad to see and hard for the people to have to go through, especially since it could have been avoided. I was struck by the few times that it said that God did this to Judah without pity. How far away they had become for God to act like that toward them. They had turned their back toward the One who is compassionate and loving to the point that He had to do all this. It is all the more reason for us to be faithful to Him!

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