Nathan Lewis – Class 2: Lamentations – The Afflicted Daughter of Zion

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Thank you for the same, The
Afflicted Daughter of Zion.

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And I thought
Thanks brother, John Owen, good

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morning, my dear brothers and
sisters and young people, and

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our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hmm.

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And welcome back to our series
on Lamentations Jeremiah’s,

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emotional poem of heartache and
misery and meaning.

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And hopefully, you can cast your
minds back to yesterday where we

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looked at the structure of the
book and just to remind

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ourselves, this is as it were in
a nutshell, the essence of

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Lamentations.
In really, it is a picture if

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you like of Golgotha and the
sufferings of Jesus Christ on

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this side and Lamentations
chapters 1 and 2, we have the

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nation of Israel.
A thief like Nation, who rob God

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of his time and honor.
On this side, we have the same

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Thief like Nation, but gradually
changing.

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Coming to repentance turning to
God.

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And that change has been
affected by the man who stands

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in the middle of the chapter or
the book chapter 3, the man who

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has seen affliction, This
Central character effects, the

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nation and is able to save them
and Lamentations really is the

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story of how we respond to
suffering.

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We begin as we’ll see here in
chapter one, with appealing to

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those who pass by for sympathy.
That’s how we start, isn’t it?

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Brothers and sisters.
We whinge to each other about

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our lat, how hard it is in life.
The struggles that we’re going

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through, We complain to each
other, But the purpose of our

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Lord Jesus Christ is to give us
perspective and meaning and to

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make us progress through to a
stage where instead of Moaning

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to each other, we appeal to God,
for Mercy, we turn to him in

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Repentance and he is able to
save and heal.

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So now we come to A second, a
second session, chapters one and

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two, The Afflicted Daughter of
Zion the dark chapters of

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Lamentations Jerusalem.
Lay in ruins, everything that

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was important to the nation and
the profit, their security,

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their religion, their
priesthood, the monarchy their

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homes, their positions, their
families had all been ripped

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apart by the Babylonians.
Suddenly and ruthlessly torn

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away, they have been warned, so
so many times, but they didn’t

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really believe that God would so
drastically disturb the

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equilibrium.
But as they looked around, In

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the smoking ruins of the city.
He had he had done that to his

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people, to his Temple.
How how, how could this be?

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And look at the nation’s
feelings in chapter 1 and verse

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12, is it.
Nothing to you all.

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Ye that pass by Behold.
And see if there be any sorrow,

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like unto my sorrow, which is
done unto me, where with Yahweh

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has Afflicted me in the day, of
his Fierce anger has anyone

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experienced this amount of grief
and pain before the nation was

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overwhelmed?
And as we start this morning,

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looking at chapters one and two.
I thought I would begin by

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giving you a montage of the
feelings of the book Because as

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we know, Lamentations gives us
the feelings that Jeremiah gives

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us the facts for it’s a very
emotional and demonstrative

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book.
So just so we can put ourselves

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there in the ruins of Jerusalem
to feel the utter misery and

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hurt and in comprehensibility of
the situation, let me just read

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out to you.
The graphic descriptions that

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come through Lamentations, and
you might like to sit there, you

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can read it on the screen or you
can sit there with your eyes

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closed.
And just listen to the

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descriptions that Jeremiah
weaves into this dramatic and

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emotional book.
The horror of this time.

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Just let it wash over you,
imagine, you were there in

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Jerusalem back then.
How would you feel?

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The city that was once full of
bustling people is now empty.

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You feel betrayed by all your
friends.

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The gates are desolate.
The feasts have been abandoned.

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The priests It disconsolately On
The Ground.

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Even the young maidens full of
joy and happiness.

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All depressed.
Everyone is in misery. you can

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only think of the good old days,
the Heathen have ransacked and

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desecrated the sanctuary that
you love Everything you own has

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been sold to buy a loaf of
bread.

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You feel like God is burning
your bones or catching you in a

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net.
You feel like you keep getting

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knocked down, but you’re unable
ever to rise.

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You feel like you are crushed
grapes?

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Squeezed to know more drops run
out.

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You just can’t stop crying old
people are dying in the very

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moment that that crying out for
food.

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You can’t stop, sighing.
You’re too tired to even move.

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You feel like God has thrown you
down from heaven, to be dashed

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upon the Earth, you feel like
God is shooting arrows at you in

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his anger, you feel like God has
torn up your carefully.

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Manicured Garden that you spent
your whole life?

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Cultivating.
The elders that you love and

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respect, sit on the ground with
dust on the heads in silence.

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God has poured your liver out in
the ground in front of you.

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Nursing babies.
Breathe.

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Their last breath.
Still sucking for milk.

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You feel like the sea is
crashing down on top of you

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relentlessly.
Every wave.

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Stopping you from getting a
breath passes by rather than

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helping Mock and laugh.
Your enemies actually think they

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have brought you down.
Tears flow like a river day and

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night.
Children, lie down to die at

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every intersection mother’s.
Eat their own newborn children

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to stay alive, young and old
dial.

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I Canna piled up in the streets,
you feel like you’re in a maze,

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you can never Escape, you feel
like any cries for help.

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Go deliberately unanswered, you
feel like God is like a lion A

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beer tearing you to pieces, you
feel like you live.

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It is the practice Target for
God’s arrows.

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You feel like God has filled
your mouth with gravel.

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It’s impossible to remember
anything good anymore.

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You feel like food scraps or
sewage thrown into the streets?

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You feel like you’re drowning
everything left as worthless,

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even the gold that you used to
treat it.

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The children’s tongues stick to
the roof of their mouth for

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Hunger restaurant owners, eat
scraps, fashion models embrace

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dunhill’s your skin sticks to
your bones and you look like a

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black wizard stick.
Those killed by the sword, a

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blessed compared to those who
are starving to death.

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The compassionate mother’s boil
their children to end their

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pain.
Houses are turned over to be

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inhabited by complete strangers.
The woman in the maids are

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ravished.
The princes are tortured, the

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elders are mutilated and
disfigured.

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All the young people are sold as
slaves.

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Any thought of music and song
dies in your throats.

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Can you imagine such a nut uribl
anguish?

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Can we be shaken brothers and
sisters from our comfortable

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lives and our lethargy to be
moved by the spectacle.

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How, how, how could this be?
This morning, we want to delve

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into the hopelessness.
The utter Blackness of grief of

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these people is that floundering
around for meaning amongst the

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chaos trying to make sense of
all of this pain.

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Now obviously, in chapters 1 and
2, we have too many verses to do

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as a detailed verse by verse
study.

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So what I want to do this
morning is hard as it might be

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is try and highlight for you the
main ideas or themes of these

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two chapters.
The themes of Lamentations one.

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And as usual, the main theme is
going to come up in the first

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few verses and then be expanded
on in the rest of the chapter.

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The First theme of chapter one,
is that all their lovers and

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friends had left verse 2 among
all her Lover’s?

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She had none to comfort her
verse 8.

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All that honored, her despise
her.

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This 19, I called, for my
lover’s, but they deceive me.

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There was suddenly amongst the
rubble, the ruins of the city

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sudden feeling of loneliness.
Of Abandonment.

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Where was everyone?
We was everyone that was

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supposed to help me to support
me.

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To care for me to protect me in
the nation’s suddenly realize

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that everyone had abandoned them
in their most desperate hour of

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need.
It was an overwhelming feeling

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verse 1.
How does the city sits solitary?

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That was full of people.
How is she becomes a widow?

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She that was great among the
Nations and Princess among the

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provinces.
How is she become tributary?

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The NIV has hard after City sit
deserted, everyone was gone. and

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I’d like you to come to Isaiah
and chapter 22 because These

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days had been foretold.
In the book of Isaiah.

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Isaiah chapter 22 and look at
this description of what

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Jerusalem used to be like verse
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Now that aren’t full of stars.
A tumultuously city, a joyous

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City.
They slain men are not slain

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with the sword nor dead in
battle.

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Jerusalem, was a city of
excitement of bustling of

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bustling, happiness people
everywhere.

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And in verse 12 God called for
repentance and in that day did

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Yahweh Elohim of armies call to
weeping to morning to baldness

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to girding, with sackcloth.
He called for repentance, but

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what did he get?
Brothers and sisters.

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He got verse 13.
Parties and behold, Joy

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gladness, slang oxen killing
sheep.

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Eating flesh, drinking wine.
Let us eat and drink for

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tomorrow.
We shall die and God was

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provoked to anger.
All he wanted was a relationship

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with the nation that they were
obsessed with everybody else

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with making friends with
everybody else and look what it

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says in verse 14.
It was revealed in mine ears by

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Yahweh of armies.
Surely this iniquity shall not

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be purged from you till you die,
saith, Yahweh, Elohim of armies.

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In the Fulfillment of verse 14
is the book of Lamentations and

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by the time Judah woke up to
their mistake, the city of

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stirs, the tumultuous city was
gone, they were alone deserted

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Abandoned.
Of course, of course, they were

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married.
God himself was their husband

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their protector, but you see
their iniquities had separated

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them even from him.
And when we come back to

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Lamentations chapter 1 in verse
1, we find that.

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Even God had Turned from husband
to enemy.

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They had become a widow.
They’d become a widow.

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God, the husband had even
abandoned them.

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Do you know Jeremiah actually
says in Jeremiah 15 and verse 8

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that their widows increased like
the sand of the sea, what an

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indictment for Abraham’s seed,
the Seed of Abraham That was

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supposed to be like the sand of
the seashore for multitude.

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Now their Windows increased,
like the sand of the sea.

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Their husband was gone.
They felt like, even God had

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abandoned them.
But it got worse because verse 1

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continues, the princess has
become a tributary.

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What a calamitous fall from
grace, all the servants are

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gone.
The Glamorous girl of the

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nation’s has to cook in the
kitchen.

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She’s gone from glittering
princess to slave.

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Girl was almost Unthinkable.
This fall from grace But it

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became worse again.
Because verse 2 says, all her

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Lover’s in friends have deserted
her, this is a woman who is

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totally and absolutely alone.
Jerusalem’s lovers all started

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with.
Solomon strange wives and

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connections that lead to
idolatry political alliances.

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And suddenly Judah, was more
friendly, more Reliant, more,

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trusting of other Gentile
Nations, who lovers then she was

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of God.
She wanted to turn to Egypt in

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Isaiah, 30, and Isaiah 36.
We know those verses, it’s like

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a read that if you lean upon it,
it will pierce through your

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hand.
So also is Pharaoh king of

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Egypt.
Come across to zekiel and

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chapter 23 because strangely
enough.

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The nation of Judah.
Felt that actually Babylon was

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their friend Ezekiel 23 and
verse 22.

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Therefore o Holub are thus saith
Nar way.

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Behold, I will raise up thy
lovers against thee from whom

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thy mind is alienated and old
bring them against the on every

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side, the Babylonians and all
the called Ian’s p-card and

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sugar and color and all the
Assyrians with them.

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All of them desirable young men,
Captains and rulers, great Lords

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in renowned all of them riding
upon horses in the lover of

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Babylon that Judah had relied on
turned against to, in her hour

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of need and came down and
assaulted the city.

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Everybody had abandoned this
woman that relied on Edom that

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relied on Eman and everybody
turned against two, What a

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lesson brothers and sisters.
No amount of diplomacy, no

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amount of political connections.
No.

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Amount of Reliance on friends
can replace our love and trust

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in God, riches will evaporate
youth, will disappear friends,

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will let us down a health
condition appear in a moment.

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And for Jerusalem, it was all
too late, the Babylonians, swept

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in the lovers, The parties, the
good times, the friends,

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evaporated, and suddenly Judah,
awoke to the fact that even God,

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her husband had turned against
her, she was desperately Alone.

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Look at verse 19, I called, for
my lover’s, but they deceived

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me, my priests and mine Elders.
Gave up the spirit in the city

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while they sought their meat to
relieve their souls.

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Jerusalem is portrayed as an
Unfaithful woman who abandoned

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her husband, her maker and put
her trust in anyone.

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Other than God In this is how it
turned out.

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Who do?
We trust him brothers and

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sisters in our lives.
Is it our neighbors wealth?

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Is it?
Our friends in the world?

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A secured job are own native
abilities.

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Anything other than God, it’s a
searching question, isn’t it?

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Because sometimes trusting and
other things may even seem

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legitimate like, here in verse
19.

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I mean, surely, we can trust our
brothers and sisters, I mean,

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surely, we can trust The priests
and the elders.

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But in the ultimate sense
brothers and sisters, we can

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only trust our heavenly father
tune over the page to chapter 2

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and verse 14.
By prophets have seen Vain and

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foolish things for thee.
They have not discovered thine

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iniquity to turn away.
They kept tivity but have seen

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for the false burdens and causes
of banishment, even the priests,

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the elders and the prophets
could not help.

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And the overwhelming lesson of
Lamentations one.

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Is that the only person we must
trust is our heavenly father.

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and if we look hard at our
lives, And we find a fear amount

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of Reliance on self or anyone
else.

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Then we are probably doomed to
repeat judah’s mistakes.

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Do you know in Chapter 2 and
verse 14?

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That little phrase Vain and
foolish things is quite an

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interesting phrase.
The revised Standard Version has

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false and deceptive Visions.
But in the Hebrew, the Hebrew

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word for foolish things is very
interesting and it doesn’t

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actually mean anything, like
what it seems literally it

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should be The prophets have
seen.

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Untempered whitewash.
Would you have guessed that from

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the verse untempered whitewash
and four out of the seven times?

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It occurs it occurs in Ezekiel
chapter 13, just come there very

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quickly and read these verses
with me and see if they’re not

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appropriate to the nation.
In this state this morning,

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Ezekiel 13 in verses 10 to 16.
because even because they have

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seduced, my people saying peace
when there is or was no peace

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and one built up a wall And low
others.

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Dabbed it, with untempered
mortar, say unto them which

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debit with untempered mortar
that it shall fall, there shall

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be an overflowing shower and
yeoh great hailstones shall fall

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and a stormy wind shall Rend.
It low when the wall is Fallen,

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shall it?
Not be said unto you.

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Where is the door bang?
Which you have dabbed it.

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Therefore thus, saith ni Yahweh.
I will even Rend it with a

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stormy wind And in my Fury and
this should be an overflowing

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shower in mine, anger and great
hailstones in my Fury to consume

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it.
So will I break down the wall

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that you have Dead with
untempered mortar and bring it

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down to the ground?
So that the foundation thereof

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shall be discovered.
It shall fall ye shall be

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consumed in the midst thereof.
And ye shall know that I am

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Yahweh.
Thus will, I accomplish my wrath

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upon the wall and upon them,
which have dabbed it with

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untempered mortar and we’ll say,
To you.

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The wall is no more neither.
They that have dabbed it to wit.

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The prophets of Israel, which
prophesy concerning Jerusalem

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and which see visions of Peace
for her, and there is no peace.

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You see what the prophets and
the priests were saying that,

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divined lies to cover up the
truth.

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The Babylonians upcoming, it’s
all going to be okay.

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It’s all going to be fine.
There were like dishonest

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Builders who covered up a
crumbly wall with a Fresh coat

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of whitewash.
That’s what their leaders were

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doing.
It’s where we get the phrase

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wallpapering over the cracks and
trusting and friends and jobs,

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and wealth, and Connections in
abilities in anything other than

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God, Is like wallpapering over
the cracks.

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It’s like dabbing a Fresh coat
of whitewash on a crumbling wall

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and the prophets have seen Vain
and foolish things and the city

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woke up.
And everything had been taken

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away.
They were Afflicted broken.

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Forsaken.
The second theme in chapter one

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is that there is none to comfort
me.

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It happens actually over and
over again.

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In this chapter 7 times, there
is none to comfort her none to

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comfort me.
Without God, we are lonely and

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Abandoned and in actual fact in
this little section of chapters

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1 and chapter 2, there’s a real
emphasis on weeping.

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Look, at verse 2, she weepeth
saw in the night who tears on

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her cheeks verse 16 for these
things.

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I weep my mine.
I run us down from wart with

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water. 2:11 mine eyes, do fail
with tears, chapter 2 and verse.

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18.
Let tears run down like a river

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day and night, you can see the
Hopeless situation, constant

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tears, the nation is
inconsolable, they can’t stop

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the crying and there’s none to
comfort.

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You know, it’s bad enough, isn’t
it?

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When we are suffering to go
through the actual problems?

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Half the solution is being able
to talk to someone and receive

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some comfort, but for these
people that were going through

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all the problems and there was
no one to turn to abandoned and

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lonely.
Affliction seven times actually,

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in the whole chat in the whole
book.

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It’s the key word of the book as
a whole, but it certainly here

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predominantly in chapter one
Affliction and suffering.

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Look at chapter 1 and verse 7,
Jerusalem Remembered in the days

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of her Affliction and of her
miseries all her Pleasant things

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which she had in the days of old
when her people fell into the

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hands of the enemy.
Me and none did help her the

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adversaries saw her and did mock
at her.

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Sabbath’s.
The pleasant things were all

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gone only misery remained and at
an actual fact in this little

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section there’s a little
emphasis on the pleasant things.

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Verse 7, all her Pleasant things
have gone verse verse 10.

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The adversary has spread out his
hand upon all her Pleasant

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things verse 11.
They have given their Pleasant

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things for meat, everything that
they treasured had gone.

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It was only Affliction.
Now all their goods were stolen.

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Their houses were occupied by
the enemy the memories burned

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smashed.
What a horrific time.

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And in verse 11, as we read
verse 11, all my people sigh,

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they seek bread, they have given
their Pleasant things for meat,

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to relieve the soul.
What does that remind you of?

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They have given their Pleasant
things for meat, to relieve, the

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soul, doesn’t that seem to be an
allusion to Esau.

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They’ve despise their
Birthright, they’ve sold their

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Heritance has yahweh’s people
just for a mess of pottage

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that’s what all the parties feel
like.

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Now imagine it.
The descendants of Jacob acting

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like Esau are afflicted,
polluted profane.

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And all they can do.
Throughout chapter one is.

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Sigh.
There’s just nothing left to say

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her priests.
I verse 4.

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Ye Shi Saya.
‘The intern of backward.

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Verse 8.
All her people sigh verse 11.

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They have heard that I sigh
verse 21 for my size.

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A mini verse 22 overcome with
grief and despair.

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There’s nothing that can be said
that will make this situation.

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Any better?
All you can do is You know, hold

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your hand in Lamentations 1 and
come forward to Ezekiel 21

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because this is exactly what God
had prophesied of the nation.

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Ezekiel 21 in verse 1.
And the word of Yahweh came unto

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me saying, son of man, sit by
face toward Jerusalem and drop,

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they word toward the holy places
prophesied against the land of

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Israel and say to the land of
Israel.

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Thus saith, Yahweh behold, I am
against thee and will draw forth

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my sword out of his sheath and
will cut off from Thee.

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The righteous and the wicked
seeing then that I will cut off

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from the righteous and the
wicked.

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Therefore shall my sword go
forth out of his sheath.

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Against All Flesh from the south
to the north.

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That All Flesh may know that I
Yahweh have drawn forth, my

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sword out of his sheath, it
shall not return anymore.

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Sigh.
Therefore, the son of man with

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the breaking of thy loins and
with bitterness sigh before

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their eyes and it shall be when
they shall say unto thee, we’re

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for syas there.
That thou shalt answer for the

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tidings.
Because it cometh.

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And every heart shall melt and
all hand, shall be feeble if

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every Spirit shall faint and
Olney, shall be weak, as water,

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behold it cometh?
And it shall be brought to pass

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the Babylonians were going to
come in.

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God said to Ezekiel sigh son of
man.

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And in business sigh for your
people.

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And we know what happens in the
rest of this chapter verse 25.

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They are profane Wicked Prince
of Israel.

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Remove the diadem take off the
crown, I will overturn overturn.

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Overturn it, it will never be
the same.

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God had prophesied sighing and
grief and in comprehensibility

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and Lamentations.
One is the proof that it all

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came to pass.
In all it’s awful detail.

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Just as he had said, Jerusalem
was crushed and broken.

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So Lamentations, chapter 1 is
all about man’s hopelessness

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man’s inadequacy, how without
God.

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We are all the things of
Lamentations.

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Chapter one, broken Afflicted
crushed.

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Forsaken, abandoned troubled,
distressed.

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Ain’t desolate.
Comfortless. and it’s when we

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realize brothers and sisters in
young people that are situation

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in life without god without
trust in him is so desperately

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Bleak and without any comfort
That we come to chapter 2.

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In Chapter 2, we have quite
different themes.

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The first one is the name of God
Yahweh or Adonai seven times.

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Yahweh seven times Adonai and
most of you may be aware that

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probably in all of the times
that Adonai occurs in

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Lamentations to the seven times,
it should probably be translated

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as the sofrom or as Yahweh, the
name of God.

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So seven times we’re told in
chapter one, there is none to

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comfort.
Now, we have the answer.

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Yahweh hath done this.
Yahweh hath done this verse 7.

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Yahweh hath cast off his altar,
he hath abhorred his Sanctuary,

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he hath given up into the hand
of the enemy the walls of her

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palaces.
They have made a noise in the

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house of Yahweh as in the day of
a solemn feast.

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Yahweh has purposed to destroy
the wall of the daughter of

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Zion.
He has stretched out a line.

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He has not withdrawn.
His hand from destroying verse

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20, behold o, Yahweh.
Consider to whom thou Hast done

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this.
This was God’s workings.

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It was his anger over and over
again.

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In this chapter, it was his
anger not the Babylonians.

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Another theme, he has swallowed
up.

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Just look at this 2:2.
Yahweh has swallowed up the

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inhabit.
The habitations of Jacob verse

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5.
Yahweh was as an enemy.

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He has swallowed up Israel, he
has swallowed up all her palaces

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verse 8, He has verse 8.
It says he has stretched out a

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line, he hath, not withdrawn his
hand from destroying but in the

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margin it says, swallowing up
verse 16, we have swallowed her

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up.
That’s how the nation felt.

439
00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:51,000
They felt that God had swallowed
them up, horrific an awful

440
00:33:51,000 –> 00:33:55,300
feeling.
And God the last theme has not

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00:33:55,300 –> 00:33:58,500
petite.
He is not pitied.

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00:33:59,500 –> 00:34:05,300
He is not pitied verse 17.
Let’s just read verse 17

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together.
Yahweh have done that, which he

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00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:12,400
has deserved devised.
He had fulfilled his word that

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00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:18,000
he commanded in the days of old.
He hath thrown down and hath not

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00:34:18,000 –> 00:34:20,900
pitied.
The revised Standard Version has

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00:34:21,300 –> 00:34:25,300
Yahweh has done.
What he purposed, he has carried

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00:34:25,300 –> 00:34:29,699
out his threat.
As he ordained long ago, he has

449
00:34:29,699 –> 00:34:34,100
demolished Without Pity and
there was a growing realization.

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00:34:35,699 –> 00:34:40,100
That actually this was not
Nebuchadnezzar’s work.

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00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:46,500
This was yahweh’s hand his
anger, his determined purpose,

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00:34:47,000 –> 00:34:53,699
his indignation, his fire, you
know, one of the other themes of

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00:34:53,699 –> 00:34:57,300
chapter one, is the theme of the
enemy.

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00:34:58,000 –> 00:35:00,900
The enemy that has done this.
The Babylonians.

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00:35:01,300 –> 00:35:05,700
Look at verse 5, her enemies
Prosper.

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00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:10,500
Verse 7.
They fell into the hands of the

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00:35:10,500 –> 00:35:15,400
enemy verse 9.
The enemy hath magnified

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00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:18,200
herself.
This team.

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Verse 13.
It says the Heathen entered into

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00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:30,600
the sanctuary.
The adversary has spread out his

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00:35:30,600 –> 00:35:32,600
hand upon all the pleasant
things.

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00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:38,300
The enemy prevailed verse 16
Mine enemies have heard of my

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00:35:38,300 –> 00:35:39,900
trouble.
Do you know, when we come to

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chapter 2, look what we read in
Verses 4 and 5.

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00:35:44,500 –> 00:35:47,400
He has been to his bow like an
enemy.

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00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:50,300
Who was the true enemy?
It was not the Babylonians.

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00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:54,600
There was a growing realization
that the true enemy here had

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00:35:54,600 –> 00:35:59,200
actually been God himself, he
stood with his right hand as an

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00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:03,000
adversary in Slough, all that
were pleasant to the eye, in the

470
00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:06,200
Tabernacle of the daughter of
Zion, he poured.

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00:36:06,300 –> 00:36:09,900
I doubt his fury like fire.
It wasn’t the Babylonians at all

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00:36:10,100 –> 00:36:14,800
Yahweh was as an enemy, he is
swallowed up Azrael, he has

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00:36:14,800 –> 00:36:18,200
swallowed up.
All her Palace has destroyed his

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00:36:18,200 –> 00:36:22,800
strongholds and increased in the
daughter of Zion mourning and

475
00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:26,700
lamentation.
What a terrible Dawning

476
00:36:26,700 –> 00:36:30,200
realization, brothers and
sisters that the sufferings that

477
00:36:30,200 –> 00:36:34,300
you’re going through weren’t
actually the Babylonians, this

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00:36:34,300 –> 00:36:40,700
was what God was doing.
Verse 17 Yahweh has done that

479
00:36:40,700 –> 00:36:47,900
which he has devised.
What a turnip of events.

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00:36:50,200 –> 00:36:56,600
God was responsible.
And in verse 17 at the end of

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00:36:56,600 –> 00:37:01,500
the verse, it says he has caused
thine enemy to Rejoice over

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00:37:01,500 –> 00:37:07,200
thee, he has set up the Horn of
thine adversaries.

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00:37:07,700 –> 00:37:13,200
Well what a terrible situation
when God is elevating, the Horn

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00:37:13,200 –> 00:37:17,600
of the adversaries in exactly
the same chapter.

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00:37:18,100 –> 00:37:22,300
As we read.
In verse 3, he is cut off in his

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00:37:22,300 –> 00:37:24,900
fierce.
Anger, all the Horn of Israel.

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00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:28,700
There’s a dramatic turn of
events happening here and are

488
00:37:28,700 –> 00:37:31,100
just realizing how disturbing it
is.

489
00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:34,900
Everything was upside down the
Horn of the adversaries,

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00:37:34,900 –> 00:37:39,000
exalted, the Horn of Israel cut
down to the ground and God had

491
00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:42,700
done it.
What part of the nation had his

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00:37:42,700 –> 00:37:48,500
hand not destroyed and chapter 2
of Lamentations is really like a

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00:37:48,508 –> 00:37:55,200
catalog of God’s Fury poured.
Upon the different parts of the

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00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:59,700
nation.
In verses 1 to 5 God poured out

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00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:05,400
his fury on the strongholds, on
the Palaces, on the monarchy,

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00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:11,600
this words like horn and Kingdom
in verses 6 to 7.

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00:38:11,900 –> 00:38:16,000
He poured out his Fury upon the
temple upon the Tabernacle.

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00:38:16,000 –> 00:38:19,700
The priests, the altar, the
religious Feasts.

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00:38:20,700 –> 00:38:25,800
Inverses. 9:52.
He poured out his Fury upon the

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00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,500
walls of Jerusalem.
The ramparts the gates, the

501
00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:34,500
bars, the defenses, In verses 11
to 14.

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00:38:34,700 –> 00:38:39,400
He pulls out his Fury upon the
children, the week, the

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00:38:39,400 –> 00:38:44,200
vulnerable and in verses 15 to
19.

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00:38:44,300 –> 00:38:49,400
He pours out his Fury upon their
reputation, their image, their

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00:38:49,400 –> 00:38:54,900
Prestige, their self-esteem.
Nothing would Escape his hand.

506
00:38:55,900 –> 00:39:02,400
In Lamentations to they realize,
God has taken away everything in

507
00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:05,500
their lives.
He had removed the Bible class.

508
00:39:06,900 –> 00:39:10,400
The Sunday School students were
piled dead in the streets.

509
00:39:11,900 –> 00:39:16,800
The bread and wine that we read
of in Chapter 2 and verse 12.

510
00:39:16,800 –> 00:39:20,800
The corn, and the wine, even the
memorial meeting had gone.

511
00:39:21,300 –> 00:39:26,000
Even in verse 9, we read the law
is no more.

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00:39:26,300 –> 00:39:30,700
What a, what a dramatic
realization to to the nation.

513
00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:36,100
And to Jeremiah’s mind a
shocking revelation.

514
00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:42,500
That what was a religious sham
had been dissolved by God

515
00:39:42,500 –> 00:39:47,600
himself and he hadn’t even
hesitated to do it.

516
00:39:48,500 –> 00:39:54,800
Every type of leader was also
gone the king despised, the

517
00:39:54,800 –> 00:40:01,500
priest violently taken away.
The prince scattered the

518
00:40:01,500 –> 00:40:08,400
prophets exposed the elders,
humbled every single, part of

519
00:40:08,400 –> 00:40:13,700
the leadership of the nation had
been torn Away by God in this

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00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:19,100
assault, by the Babylonians.
Do you know come to Ezekiel in

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00:40:19,100 –> 00:40:22,400
chapter 7?
Because shockingly.

522
00:40:23,800 –> 00:40:29,000
Lamentations to is the exact
fulfillment again of ezekiel’s

523
00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:32,900
words.
Ezekiel chapter 7.

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00:40:34,200 –> 00:40:42,100
And verse 23.
Make a chain for the land is

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00:40:42,100 –> 00:40:45,400
full of bloody crimes in the
city is full of violence.

526
00:40:45,900 –> 00:40:48,600
Wherefore?
I will bring the worst of the

527
00:40:48,600 –> 00:40:51,300
Heathen and they shall possess
their houses.

528
00:40:51,900 –> 00:40:56,300
I will also make the pomp of the
strong decease and their holy

529
00:40:56,300 –> 00:41:01,300
places shall be defiled
destruction cometh, and they

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00:41:01,300 –> 00:41:05,000
shall seek peace.
And there shall be none.

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00:41:05,700 –> 00:41:08,700
Mischief, shall come upon
mischief and rumors, shall be

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00:41:08,700 –> 00:41:12,600
upon rumor and they shall.
And here it is.

533
00:41:14,100 –> 00:41:19,400
Seek a vision of the prophet.
But the Lord Shall Perish from

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00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:24,200
the priests.
And counsel from the ancients.

535
00:41:25,200 –> 00:41:29,400
The king shall mourn.
The prince shall be clothed.

536
00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,200
Distillation the hens of the
people of the land shall be

537
00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:35,700
troubled.
I will do unto them after their

538
00:41:35,700 –> 00:41:40,000
way and according to their
desserts, will I judge them and

539
00:41:40,000 –> 00:41:46,300
they shall know that I am Yahweh
and all five types of leaders

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00:41:46,600 –> 00:41:53,900
mentioned in verses 26 and 27,
the prophet, the priest, the

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00:41:53,900 –> 00:41:59,200
ancients The king and the
princes are all systematically

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00:42:00,100 –> 00:42:04,500
dismantled in Lamentations
chapter 2, forsaken.

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00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:09,000
Taken away.
Just as God had said, and God

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00:42:09,000 –> 00:42:13,800
did unto them after their own
way, he gave them their own Just

545
00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:16,700
Desserts.
They had wanted to be like the

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00:42:16,700 –> 00:42:21,700
heathen.
Friends with the world mingle,

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00:42:21,700 –> 00:42:24,200
with the nation’s, to be
friendly with their neighbors,

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00:42:24,300 –> 00:42:30,700
little worship together and be
friends, and God gave them their

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00:42:30,700 –> 00:42:36,100
desire.
Back in Lamentations chapter 1,

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00:42:36,100 –> 00:42:39,400
do you know what he did brothers
and sisters they wanted to be

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00:42:39,500 –> 00:42:43,900
together with the world?
Look what it says in chapter 1

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00:42:43,900 –> 00:42:48,900
in verse 10, the Heathen entered
into her Sanctuary whom thou

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00:42:48,900 –> 00:42:53,800
didst command that they should
never enter into the

554
00:42:53,800 –> 00:42:59,300
congregation.
Or chapter 4 in verse 12, the

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00:42:59,300 –> 00:43:02,700
kings of the earth and all the
inhabitants of the world would

556
00:43:02,700 –> 00:43:06,800
never have believed that the
adversary and the enemy should

557
00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:11,500
have entered into the Gates of
Jerusalem and God brought the

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00:43:11,500 –> 00:43:17,200
Babylonians right into Jerusalem
and right into the sanctuary.

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00:43:20,400 –> 00:43:27,000
Just not in the way they wanted.
And not in the way they thought.

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00:43:28,300 –> 00:43:30,100
They wanted to be one with the
world.

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00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:36,900
God gave them their own way and
he brought the Babylonians into

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00:43:36,900 –> 00:43:42,400
Jerusalem.
But as their assault as in and

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00:43:43,300 –> 00:43:47,600
in tormentors not as their
lovers or friends, it’s

564
00:43:47,600 –> 00:43:49,800
shocking, isn’t it?
Brothers and sisters, they

565
00:43:49,800 –> 00:43:53,200
desperately wanted to be United
with the nation’s and God was

566
00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:56,200
going to grant them, their wish,
but just in the most

567
00:43:56,200 –> 00:44:03,000
unimaginably awful way, I want
you to look at this because when

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00:44:03,000 –> 00:44:10,100
I saw this, I was shocked.
This is a description of.

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00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:16,100
Israel, Judah from the book of
Lamentations.

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00:44:17,600 –> 00:44:22,400
It describes, the humiliating
Fall From Grace, they’re

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00:44:22,400 –> 00:44:27,700
described as a virgin daughter.
They’re described as sitting on

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00:44:27,700 –> 00:44:31,100
the ground.
In the dust.

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00:44:32,300 –> 00:44:39,400
The nakedness is exposed.
The sitting in silence in

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00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:43,300
darkness.
The no more, the Lady or the

575
00:44:43,300 –> 00:44:49,000
princess of the Nations.
They remembered not, the last

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00:44:49,100 –> 00:44:51,000
end.
It says, in Lamentations, 1

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00:44:51,000 –> 00:44:53,600
verse 9.
They were given over to

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00:44:53,600 –> 00:44:59,300
Pleasures to Pleasant things.
They became a widow and

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00:44:59,300 –> 00:45:02,300
childless.
They said in Ezekiel 8

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00:45:02,300 –> 00:45:07,100
everybody’s seeing us Nobody can
see what we’re actually doing.

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00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:11,300
False prophets.
They had none of which were able

582
00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:15,300
to help.
They were consumed ultimately,

583
00:45:15,300 –> 00:45:23,900
by God’s fiery, judgments.
I’d like you to come to Isaiah

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00:45:23,900 –> 00:45:28,100
in chapter 47 and read with me
these words.

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00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:49,200
Isaiah 47 in verse 1.
Come down and sit in the dust. o

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00:45:49,200 –> 00:45:55,900
virgin daughter of Babylon.
Babylon.

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00:45:57,400 –> 00:46:00,500
Sit on the ground.
There is no Throne o daughter of

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00:46:00,500 –> 00:46:04,500
the Chaldeans for Thou shalt.
No more be called tender and

589
00:46:04,500 –> 00:46:09,100
delicate take the millstones.
Grind meal, uncover thy locks,

590
00:46:09,100 –> 00:46:12,400
make beer the league, uncover
the thigh pass over the rivers,

591
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:14,500
thy nakedness shall be
uncovered.

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00:46:14,500 –> 00:46:16,300
Yeah.
Thy shame shall be seen.

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00:46:16,400 –> 00:46:20,500
I will take Vengeance and I will
not meet the as a man.

594
00:46:21,400 –> 00:46:25,100
As for Our Redeemer, Yahweh of
armies is his name, the Holy One

595
00:46:25,100 –> 00:46:30,800
of Israel sit there silent and
get the Into Darkness, o

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00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:34,600
daughter of the Chaldeans for
Thou shalt no more be called The

597
00:46:34,600 –> 00:46:39,400
Lady of Kingdoms.
I was wroth with my people, I

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00:46:39,400 –> 00:46:43,600
have polluted mine inheritance
in given them into thine hand.

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00:46:44,100 –> 00:46:47,100
Now did show them.
No mercy upon the ancient

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00:46:47,200 –> 00:46:51,000
hostile, very heavily laid their
yoke and our said stop.

601
00:46:51,900 –> 00:46:56,300
I shall be a lady forever so
that they are did not lay these

602
00:46:56,300 –> 00:47:00,000
things to Heart.
Neither did star Remember the

603
00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:02,800
latter end of it?
Therefore here.

604
00:47:02,800 –> 00:47:08,400
Now, this now that are given to
Pleasures that dwell carelessly,

605
00:47:08,600 –> 00:47:12,500
that’s asinine heart.
I am and none else beside me.

606
00:47:12,900 –> 00:47:15,800
I should not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of

607
00:47:15,800 –> 00:47:20,400
children, but these two things
shall come to the in a moment in

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00:47:20,400 –> 00:47:25,100
one day. day, the loss of
children and widowhood, they

609
00:47:25,100 –> 00:47:30,500
shall come upon the in their
perfection for the multitude of

610
00:47:30,500 –> 00:47:34,900
thy sorceries and for the great
abundance of dine and chant

611
00:47:34,900 –> 00:47:39,500
moments, What’s happening
brothers and sisters?

612
00:47:40,000 –> 00:47:42,700
What is happening?
When we put together

613
00:47:43,300 –> 00:47:48,800
Lamentations and Isaiah forty
seven, Israel is receiving word

614
00:47:48,800 –> 00:47:56,000
for word, line for line
babylon’s punishment, The words

615
00:47:56,000 –> 00:48:00,700
of Isaiah written over 100
years, previously outlining

616
00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:03,800
Babylons.
Judgments are happening to The

617
00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,900
Afflicted virgin Daughter of
Zion.

618
00:48:07,200 –> 00:48:11,800
How how how could these things
be in Jeremiah quotes from

619
00:48:11,800 –> 00:48:16,300
Isaiah forty, seven over and
over and over again and

620
00:48:16,300 –> 00:48:22,100
Lamentations what a tragedy?
What an indictment and, you

621
00:48:22,100 –> 00:48:27,000
know, it’s not just Babylons
punishment as outlined in

622
00:48:27,000 –> 00:48:30,700
Isaiah, forty seven because look
at this.

623
00:48:34,100 –> 00:48:38,400
We read in Lamentations that the
houses would be spoiled their

624
00:48:38,400 –> 00:48:41,400
women ravished, that’s Isaiah
13.

625
00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:46,400
The destruction on Babylon,
Lamentations forces they would

626
00:48:46,400 –> 00:48:48,200
be destroyed as Sodom and
Gomorrah.

627
00:48:48,200 –> 00:48:51,800
Exactly like Babylon.
That’d be cast down from Heaven

628
00:48:51,800 –> 00:48:55,100
to Earth exactly like Babylon
and Isaiah 14.

629
00:48:55,300 –> 00:48:58,500
The passers-by would be
astonished just like Babylon

630
00:48:58,600 –> 00:49:01,200
trodden.
Underfoot yahweh’s purpose would

631
00:49:01,200 –> 00:49:03,500
be accomplished.
The gates would be broken.

632
00:49:03,500 –> 00:49:06,700
The Has destroyed all that
passed by would hiss and

633
00:49:06,700 –> 00:49:09,800
astonishment.
They would be caught unawares in

634
00:49:09,800 –> 00:49:12,200
yahweh’s.
Net young men would fall in the

635
00:49:12,200 –> 00:49:14,200
streets.
There would be none to raise him

636
00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:19,600
up, and ironically both Israel
and Babylon would feel they

637
00:49:19,600 –> 00:49:22,900
would experience their livers
poured upon the Earth.

638
00:49:23,500 –> 00:49:29,400
The experience of Israel exactly
mirrors, the experience of

639
00:49:29,400 –> 00:49:34,100
Babylon, Isaiah forty seven,
Isaiah 13 and 14, Teen.

640
00:49:34,600 –> 00:49:38,000
Jeremiah chapter. 50 in
Lamentations is full of it,

641
00:49:38,000 –> 00:49:43,500
brothers and sisters.
The destiny of Babylon, had

642
00:49:43,500 –> 00:49:47,700
become Israel’s fate.
It’s pretty clear what Jeremiah

643
00:49:47,700 –> 00:49:51,300
is doing.
Israel without God in their

644
00:49:51,300 –> 00:49:59,100
lives and hearts is no better
than the idolatrous sinful Pagan

645
00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:03,500
Babylonians.
So what of us brothers and

646
00:50:03,500 –> 00:50:05,600
sisters?
What of ourselves?

647
00:50:06,100 –> 00:50:13,100
Where is God, and our lives is
he just getting the leftovers?

648
00:50:13,900 –> 00:50:17,700
Is he slipping to the outside to
the periphery?

649
00:50:17,700 –> 00:50:21,600
Are we too busy at work, too
busy at school, too.

650
00:50:21,600 –> 00:50:25,500
Many worldly attractions too.
Many babylonish garments.

651
00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:31,900
Absorbed by our own Ambitions
friends in the world. is God at

652
00:50:31,900 –> 00:50:39,700
the center of our Lives because
with God at the center, they

653
00:50:39,700 –> 00:50:45,500
worship their hearts.
Judah was the beauty of Israel.

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00:50:46,900 –> 00:50:52,000
She was God’s princess, his
wife. but without God at the

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00:50:52,000 –> 00:50:56,800
center, she was just like the
Babylonians naked widowed

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00:50:57,600 –> 00:51:02,800
childless humiliated
comfortless.

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00:51:03,900 –> 00:51:11,500
Broken. and as they woke up, And
saw the Babylonians traipsing

658
00:51:11,500 –> 00:51:15,700
off with most of the good people
of Judah into captivity.

659
00:51:18,100 –> 00:51:21,200
Lamentations 1 and 2 as a very
dark place, indeed.

660
00:51:22,300 –> 00:51:26,100
Hopeless place a place of
Blackness and pain.

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00:51:27,300 –> 00:51:31,400
Us.
As bad as Babylon.

662
00:51:33,800 –> 00:51:37,000
Yes.
It’s bad as Babylon.

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00:51:38,800 –> 00:51:42,900
As bad as that adulteress,
idolatrous impostor that God

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00:51:42,900 –> 00:51:46,300
hates.
Yes.

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00:51:48,300 –> 00:51:54,300
As bad as that.
Behold and see if there be any

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00:51:54,300 –> 00:52:01,200
sorrow like unto my sorrow.
It was grief so complete, it was

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00:52:01,200 –> 00:52:04,500
misery.
So humiliating justice.

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00:52:04,500 –> 00:52:09,100
So poetic that it was almost
Indescribable how had this

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00:52:09,100 –> 00:52:13,500
happened.
And yet, brothers and sisters,

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00:52:13,500 –> 00:52:17,100
even in the gloomy, Blackness of
self-pity and despair.

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00:52:18,000 –> 00:52:21,900
There are inklings of Hope.
And I just want to show you

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00:52:21,900 –> 00:52:24,900
these as we conclude because
these are definite shift and

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00:52:24,900 –> 00:52:31,000
thought between Lamentations 1
and Lamentations to, because

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00:52:31,000 –> 00:52:35,800
Lamentations one is all about my
lover’s.

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00:52:36,800 –> 00:52:41,600
There’s none to comfort me.
It’s all about my Affliction, my

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00:52:41,600 –> 00:52:43,700
size.
But when we come to chapter 2,

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00:52:43,700 –> 00:52:46,100
it’s all about what God has
done.

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00:52:46,400 –> 00:52:51,200
He has done this, his anger, he
has swallowed up.

679
00:52:51,400 –> 00:52:56,400
He has not pitied.
The self-obsession, the blind

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00:52:56,400 –> 00:53:00,400
miserable self-absorbed.
Pity is now giving way to an

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00:53:00,400 –> 00:53:03,900
acknowledgment of God’s hand.
It’s still misery without

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00:53:03,900 –> 00:53:06,900
meaning, but there’s a definite
shift of thinking there are

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00:53:06,908 –> 00:53:11,700
stirrings of Hope.
In a movement towards God.

684
00:53:12,500 –> 00:53:16,400
Here it is.
As we finish Lamentations 1 and

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00:53:16,400 –> 00:53:20,600
2.
I am become vile.

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00:53:20,800 –> 00:53:24,100
We read in chapter 1 in verse
11.

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00:53:24,600 –> 00:53:30,300
This is the very beginning of a
recognition of their own state.

688
00:53:31,400 –> 00:53:35,200
Of their own guilt.
A desperate Cry for Help as God

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00:53:35,200 –> 00:53:39,500
brings the nation to its knees
but they realize their position.

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00:53:41,100 –> 00:53:45,300
The comforter that should
relieve my soul verse 16.

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00:53:45,300 –> 00:53:47,900
There’s an acknowledgement that
they ought to be relief.

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00:53:48,700 –> 00:53:52,300
Someone to, as the margin says,
bring back my soul.

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00:53:52,500 –> 00:53:54,300
This should be someone who can
recover.

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00:53:54,400 –> 00:53:57,800
Bring relief.
We get to verse 18.

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00:53:58,200 –> 00:54:03,300
Yahweh is righteous.
For I have rebelled.

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00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:07,000
This is a critical step of
progress.

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00:54:07,600 –> 00:54:10,600
Repentance is impossible.
Without this acknowledgement.

698
00:54:10,800 –> 00:54:15,100
God has to be right?
Even when things look wrong, and

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00:54:15,100 –> 00:54:17,800
now God can work.
And when we come across to

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00:54:17,800 –> 00:54:22,800
chapter 2 in verse 13, this is
the turning point of

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00:54:22,800 –> 00:54:26,700
Lamentations 1 and 2.
What things shall?

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00:54:26,700 –> 00:54:30,000
I take to witness for thee.
What things shall I liken to the

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00:54:30,000 –> 00:54:31,200
O daughter of?
Mmm.

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00:54:31,200 –> 00:54:34,300
What should I equal to thee?
That I may Comfort thee o virgin

705
00:54:34,300 –> 00:54:38,200
Daughter of Zion for they breach
as great like the see who can

706
00:54:38,200 –> 00:54:43,000
heal thee their sins.
Have separated them from God as

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00:54:43,000 –> 00:54:48,000
Isaiah 59, and verse to said, it
was like a dam bursting, and

708
00:54:48,100 –> 00:54:51,700
Jeremiah uses the sea with all
its vastness to express.

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00:54:52,100 –> 00:54:55,500
The immeasurable Calamity that
has befallen the nation who can

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00:54:55,500 –> 00:55:01,400
heal, who has healing.
Do you know, actually the word

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00:55:01,400 –> 00:55:06,200
for breach in Lamentations to in
verse 13, for they?

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00:55:06,200 –> 00:55:09,600
Breach is great.
Like the sea is actually the

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00:55:09,600 –> 00:55:14,400
word for bruised for.
They bruise is great, like the

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00:55:14,400 –> 00:55:19,800
sea and it comes straight out of
Jeremiah and Chapter 30,

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00:55:20,700 –> 00:55:25,800
Jeremiah is quoting God’s words.
Let me just read them to you.

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00:55:25,800 –> 00:55:29,500
If you want to you can come to
Jeremiah 30, just very quickly.

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00:55:29,700 –> 00:55:35,200
This 12 for thus saith.
Yahweh thigh bruise is

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00:55:35,200 –> 00:55:37,900
incurable.
They wound is Grievous.

719
00:55:38,100 –> 00:55:41,800
There is none to plead thy cause
that thou mayest be bound up.

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00:55:41,800 –> 00:55:45,600
There has no healing medicines.
All they lovers have forgotten

721
00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:49,700
the they seek the not for.
I have wounded thee with the

722
00:55:49,700 –> 00:55:52,900
wound of an enemy with the
chastisement of a cruel one.

723
00:55:53,100 –> 00:55:55,600
For the multitude of thine
iniquity because they sins were

724
00:55:55,600 –> 00:55:58,300
increased.
Why Christ?

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00:55:58,300 –> 00:56:01,100
Therefore thy, Bruised.
It should be.

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00:56:01,100 –> 00:56:03,500
It’s exactly the same word as
verse 12.

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00:56:04,300 –> 00:56:08,100
Thy sorrow is incurable for the
multitude of thine iniquity

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00:56:08,300 –> 00:56:10,000
because they sins were
increased.

729
00:56:10,000 –> 00:56:16,100
I have done these things unto
thee verse 17, but I will

730
00:56:16,100 –> 00:56:22,900
restore Health unto thee and I
will heal thee of thy wounds

731
00:56:23,400 –> 00:56:26,800
saith.
Yahweh how amazing is this.

732
00:56:28,000 –> 00:56:31,900
The bruise was incurable by men,
the wound Grievous.

733
00:56:32,200 –> 00:56:36,000
There was none to help none to
comfort, but God had promised to

734
00:56:36,000 –> 00:56:40,800
will restore Health to heal thee
of thy wounds.

735
00:56:42,300 –> 00:56:45,700
And now and Lamentations 2 and
verse 13.

736
00:56:45,700 –> 00:56:49,800
We have the first hint of
looking to God for the solution.

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00:56:51,300 –> 00:56:55,500
Rather than the cause of the
problem, who can heal God can

738
00:56:55,500 –> 00:56:58,900
heal and amazingly.
He had promised back in Jeremiah

739
00:56:58,900 –> 00:57:02,300
30 that he would even before he
brought the punishment.

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00:57:02,300 –> 00:57:06,000
That’s the graciousness of our
God, isn’t it?

741
00:57:06,000 –> 00:57:08,300
True, brothers, and sisters that
down through time.

742
00:57:08,500 –> 00:57:14,200
There’s only been one answer.
One, Healer of all our diseases.

743
00:57:14,600 –> 00:57:17,700
How often do we try and seek
after the positions?

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00:57:18,100 –> 00:57:20,800
Like the woman with the issue of
blood and mark, five.

745
00:57:20,800 –> 00:57:25,100
And In verse 26 but they can
never help us out.

746
00:57:25,200 –> 00:57:29,400
A condition only gets worse, but
God can heal us.

747
00:57:29,800 –> 00:57:33,400
He can relieve our souls and
restore us to health.

748
00:57:34,900 –> 00:57:38,900
This is the point of suffering
brothers and sisters to bring us

749
00:57:38,900 –> 00:57:42,800
to him.
He can heal us of our incurable

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00:57:42,800 –> 00:57:47,800
wounds, the bruises of sin.
And so in Chapter 2 and verse

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00:57:47,800 –> 00:57:52,100
19, we lift up our hands towards
him.

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00:57:53,100 –> 00:57:56,600
If the theme of chapter one was
there is none to comfort the in

753
00:57:56,600 –> 00:57:58,700
here.
There is a growing realization

754
00:57:58,700 –> 00:58:04,000
that Comfort may be possible.
Is still confusion, they still

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00:58:04,000 –> 00:58:09,100
misery without meaning.
And as we read in Chapter 2 and

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00:58:09,100 –> 00:58:15,600
verse 21 thou Hast, slain thou
Hast killed and not pitied.

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00:58:16,100 –> 00:58:20,300
There’s still a problem in the
nation’s thinking God was never

758
00:58:20,300 –> 00:58:24,600
unrighteous, so unfair, But
there seems to be a hint of

759
00:58:24,600 –> 00:58:29,100
bitterness that maybe God should
have pity a bitterness or

760
00:58:29,100 –> 00:58:31,400
resentment that needs to be
rectified.

761
00:58:31,500 –> 00:58:36,500
They’re seeking for healing.
But they wondering whether God

762
00:58:36,500 –> 00:58:40,200
should still be blamed and it is
out of this overwhelming,

763
00:58:40,400 –> 00:58:44,700
Blackness this foggy, Despair
and desolation with, just a

764
00:58:44,700 –> 00:58:48,700
stirring, an inkling of Hope
like a gleam on the horizon.

765
00:58:50,000 –> 00:58:54,900
that the man of chapter 3
emerges, A man who can answer

766
00:58:54,900 –> 00:58:59,700
their questions.
A man who has sheared are

767
00:58:59,700 –> 00:59:06,500
Affliction despite his innocence
and can share with us within his

768
00:59:06,500 –> 00:59:09,800
hope.
But that’s the subject of our

769
00:59:10,600 –> 00:59:12,000
next class tomorrow.
God willing.