AN N EA 10W Chapter 5: ANE Verses (Lamentations)
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Poem on a place full of people becoming nothing. Lord made her suffer because of their sins: rejected them. He had warned of their consequences: taken away spiritual experience, not remember them anymore, broken down strongholds of the city, beco(cid:373)e israel"s e(cid:374)e(cid:373)ies, disowned his altar and them. Shuts out connection with them (even in prayer and cries) Hope i(cid:374) god"s u(cid:374)ceasi(cid:374)g lo(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ercies: lord is good to those that wait for and seeks him, lord will not reject forever. He is grieving now, but he will have compassion. He does not make people grieve without reason. Punishment of sin: return to the lord and he will redeem you. No one believed enemies could enter jerusalem: because of sin. Jerusalem turned over to strangers: they are now orphans, they must pay for resources, made slaves. Ancestors were the ones that sinned and not them.