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Overview
Lamentations
A. Bitter
Affliction
(La 1:1-22)
1. The Prophet Speaks Out: No One Offers Comfort (La 1:1-11)
I.) The first lamentation [OR] Jerusalem in Affliction [OR] The Sorrows of Zion [OR] The Deserted City [OR] The miserable state of Jerusalem because of her sin (La 1:1)
2. Zion Speaks Out: No One Offers Comfort (La 1:12-22)
A.) She Complains Of Her Grief (La 1:12)
B.) And Confesses God's Judgment To Be Righteous (La 1:18)
B. Yahweh's Anger (La 2:1-22)
1. The Prophet Speaks Out: The LORD Destroyed Zion (La 2:1-8)
I.) The second lamentation [OR] God's Anger with Jerusalem [OR] God's Anger over Israel [OR] God's Warnings Fulfilled [OR] Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem (La 2:1)
2. The Prophet Describes Jerusalem's Destruction (La 2:9-12)
3. The Prophet Speaks Out: The LORD Destroyed You (La 2:13-19)
4. Zion Speaks Out: The LORD Destroyed Me (La 2:20-22)
A.) He Complains Of It To God (La 2:20)
C. Witness (La 3:1-66)
1. The Prophet-A Man of Despair (La 3:1-20)
I.) The third lamentation [OR] The Prophet's Anguish and Hope [OR] Jeremiah Shares Israel's Affliction [OR] God's Steadfast Love Endures [OR] The faithful bewail their calamities (La 3:1)
A.) Hope Of Relief In God's Mercy (La 3:19)
2. The Prophet-A Man of Hope (La 3:21-66)
A.) By The Mercies Of God They Nourish Their Hope (La 3:22)
B.) They Acknowledge God's Justice (La 3:37)
C.) They Pray For Deliverance (La 3:55)
D.) And Vengeance On Their Enemies (La 3:64)
3. The Prophet Speaks Out: Zion's Suffering Was Worse Than Sodom's (La 4:1-16)
D. Paradise Lost (La 4:1-22)
I.) The fourth lamentation [OR] The Degradation of Zion [OR] Distress of the Siege Described [OR] The Punishment of Zion [OR] Zion bewails her pitiful state (La 4:1)
A.) She Confesses Her Sins (La 4:13)
1. The People of Zion Speak Out (La 4:17-20)
2. The Prophet Speaks Out: Be Warned About Edom's Impending Doom (La 4:21-22)
A.) Edom Is Threatened (La 4:21)
B.) Zion Is Comforted (La 4:22)
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E. A Prayer of the Prophet
[OR] A Prayer of Remembrance (La 5:1-22)
I.) The fifth lamentation [OR] A Prayer for Restoration [OR] A Prayer for Mercy [OR] A Plea for Mercy [OR] A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer to God [OR] Ezekiel's Vision of God [OR] The Living Creatures and the Glory of the Lord [OR] The Vision of Four Figures [OR] The Vision of the Chariot [OR] The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar (La 5:1)
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