Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Lamentations 5:1-22
by: Gem Barton.
This is quite a lament and a prayer for mercy. Nothing seemed to be going right. This looks like a people that God forgot or had turned His back on. Jeremiah expressed his pain in a tearful lament in which he expresseed hurt because Jerusalem had been turned to ruins. Although he wept, he had hope in God whom he knew was merciful. Jeremiah appealed to his eternal God (v.19) in whom he had faith that He would restore Jerusalem. God is still on His throne ruling in the affairs of men. Can we still trust God today to remember and restore us? Yes, we can!