REVIEW OF CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 1. Judged according to form, to what other chapter in Lamentations does chapter 4 most nearly correspond? 2. Why did Jeremiah compare his people to an ostrich? Lamentations 4:3. 3. In what respect was the punishment of Zion greater than that of Sodom? Lamentations... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A RUINED KINGDOM Lamentations 4:1-22 The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s 1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines instead of three. Here also the sixteenth and seventeenth letters of the Hebrew alphabet are reversed, but... [ Continue Reading ]
II. AN EXPLANATION OF THE JUDGMENT Lamentations 4:11-20 TRANSLATION (11) The LORD has given vent to His wrath. He has poured out His fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has consumed her foundations. (12) Neither the kings of the earth nor the inhabitants of the world believed that t... [ Continue Reading ]
III. AN EXPECTATION REGARDING THE JUDGMENT Lamentations 4:21-22 TRANSLATION (21) Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz! But to You also shall the cup pass. You shall become drunk and make yourself naked. (22) The punishment of your iniquity is complete, O daughter o... [ Continue Reading ]