Study 2 From the Book of
Lamentations is: Lamentations 2
Verses 1-9 deal
particularly with the devastation of buildings in Judah and Jerusalem, and the
rest of the chapter with the sufferings of various classes of the inhabitants.
1.
Try
to imagine the desolation here portrayed and the intensity of the people’s
sorrow. Cf. 1:12. What is said of God’s right hand in verses 3:4? Contrast with this such passages as Ex. 15:6,
12: Pss. 63:8; 139:10.
2.
What
evidence in this chapter suggests that already the disaster of the judgment is
having one of its intended effects? Cf. 2 Ch. 7:13, 14. Are we, as God’s
children, as sensitive as we ought to be to His disciplinary dealings?
Notes
1.
Verse
2 ‘Habitations’: i.e., country dwelling as opposed to ‘strongholds’.
2.
Verse
4. ‘Tent’ here denote the city.
3.
Verse
6a refers to the Temple. ‘He has broken down his tabernacle like a garden hut’
(Gotwald)
4.
Verse
22a. Instead of summoning worshipers to a festival, God has called together
‘terrors on every side’, so that none of His people escaped. Cf.Is
