OTI-25 - Lamentations

Published 2024-08-07
Perhaps the best introduction to this book we will study tonight is a poem written in 1923 by Thomas Chisholm, #43 “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”.

Based on Lam. 3:23, this song captures many powerful truths about God:
O God My Father (Mt. 6:9)
There Is No Shadow... (Js. 1:17)
Thou Changest Not (Heb. 1:12)
Thy Compassion... (Lam. 3:22)

Jeremiah sits down and looks over the smoldering ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. His voice rises into a wail of sorrow—a lament. His funeral dirge over the city of God, inspired by the Spirit of God, is a message for all the people of God.

This book is a master-crafted poem with five stanzas.

Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 each start with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, 22 in all. This form of poetry, called an acrostic, is beautiful in form and powerful in communication.

Chapter 3 is the centerpiece of this poem, with three 22-verse acrostics making it 66 verses long. The book's theme and this middle chapter agree, as Jeremiah discovers - GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS, our Great Lord!


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All Comments (3)
  • Excellent teaching, we would have never known all God wants us to about Lamentations Thank YOU
  • @trevorbates8972
    Why would Almighty God, Jehovah, change His righteous stance? It is the same rules and regulations He employed when He saved Heaven from the forthcoming distress we are about to face. It sounds terrible. Anyone who has faced trauma knows it depletes us of our nervous strength in an instant and leaves us in an assorted array of distress. Jesus Christ gave us righteous instructions on how to deal with trauma even before the event that causes it...and I suggest we folllow that teaching urgently.