Are You Still Angry With Us?
This book ends with a question - "Are you still angry with us?" Jeremiah, the presumed author of these poems of lamentation, discusses one of the lowest points in Israel's history. A series of acrostic poems (where each verse begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet) these capture the abject terror and destruction of Jerusalem and Judah. The city is utterly destroyed. The people are starving to the point of cannibalism. There is no hope for anyone. Even the Temple is destroyed and all of its wealth taken.
From these Lamentations we can see the ultimate end of sin and idolatry. Because the people would not repent, even after the Lord sent prophets and raised up kings that honored Him, the nation had to suffer under the judgment of Jehovah.
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