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Lamentations
LAMENTATIONS 1
HER SINS (1:8-9):
HER SUFFERING (1:1-7, 10-11)
Jerusalem sits alone, like a grief-stricken widow (1:1, 4).
She weeps throughout the night with no one to comfort her (1:2).
Judah has been taken into exile (1:3, 5).
The enemy laughs as she falls (1:7).
The enemy has looted her treasure and violated her Temple (1:10).
Her people are starving (1:11).
HER SPEECH (1:12-22)
The punishment (1:12-15):
The pain (1:16-21):
The prayer (1:22):
LAMENTATIONS 2
JERUSALEM'S CRISIS (2:1-19):
The agony (2:1-17)
The nation (2:2-5):
The city (2:1, 8-9a, 13, 15-17):
Her walls and ramparts are destroyed (2:8).
Her gates sink into the ground (2:9a).
Her wound is as deep as the sea (2:13).
Her enemies scoff and jeer at her (2:15-17).
The Temple (2:6-7):
The people (2:9b-12, 14)
The displacement (2:9b):
The darkness (2:9c, 14):
The despair (2:10):
The deaths (2:11-12):
The anguish (2:18-19):
JERUSALEM'S CRY (2:20-22):
LAMENTATIONS 3
THE AFFLICTIONS (3:1-20, 43-46, 52-66)
Of Jeremiah (3:1-20, 52-66):
From the Lord (3:1-20)
The Lord brings him into deep darkness (3:2-3).
The Lord makes him old and breaks his bones (3:4).
The Lord walls him in a dark place and chains him down (3:5-7).
The Lord ignores his prayers (3:8).
The Lord blocks his path (3:9).
The Lord attacks him like a bear (3:10-11).
The Lord pierces his heart with arrows (3:12-13).
The Lord makes him the object of ridicule (3:14).
The Lord fills him with bitterness (3:15).
The Lord takes away his peace and prosperity (3:16-20).
From the people (3:52-66):
Of Jerusalem (3:43-46)
From the Lord (3:43-45):
He has chased them down and slaughtered them without mercy (3:43).
He refuses to hear their prayers (3:44).
He has discarded them as garbage (3:45).
From their enemies (3:46):
THE AGONY (3:47-51):
THE ASSURANCE (3:21-24, 31-33):
THE ADMONITION (3:25-30, 34-42):
Wait patiently for the Lord to respond (3:25-26).
Accept the Lord's discipline (3:27-30, 34-39).
Repent of your sin (3:40-42).
LAMENTATIONS 4
JERUSALEM'S CURRENT JUDGMENT (4:1-20)
The consequences (4:1-10):
Children (4:1-4)
Rich people (4:5-6)
Princes (4:7-9)
Mothers (4:10)
The causes (4:11-20)
The priests' and prophets' sins (4:11-16):
The enemy's strength (4:17-20):
EDOM'S COMING JUDGMENT (4:21-22):
SECTION OUTLINE FIVE (LAMENTATIONS 5)
REMEMBER US (5:1-18):
The suffering (5:2-14):
The homeless (5:2)
The fatherless (5:3)
The hungry (5:4, 6-7, 9-10)
The persecuted (5:5, 8)
The women (5:11)
The noble (5:12)
The old and the young (5:13-14)
The sadness (5:15-18):
RESTORE US (5:19-22):