Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Lamentations 1:12-16
by: Dale Rood.
You might call the book of Lamentations Jeremiah's journal. Often we think of prophets pronouncing judgment on the people in an "I told you so" fashion. Not so. They stood with the people and mourned over the judgment that seemed so necessary. When we are feeling righteous and want to pronounce judgment on "all those sinners out there," it might do us well to consider Jeremiah, and even while speaking out against the sin we see around us, also to weep for the people who are doing it.