Lamentations
Lamentations is Jeremiah’s heartfelt sorrow over the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple by the Babylonians in 536 BC. Yet, in 3:22 – 24, he wrote, “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. ‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I hope in Him.’” Although the entire country had been demolished, more than 90% of the citizens were dead, and the remainder had fled to other countries, Jeremiah had hope.
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