Lamentations 5: Learning Lament

Listen along as we wrap up the book of Lamentations.

Notes//Quotes:

Kim J Reading Lamentations 5:16-22

Title: Learning Lament

“Psychological closure for the community remains outside the range of this set of poems. It lay much further ahead and could not be achieved, so dramatic were the experiences they had undergone and were still undergoing. The modern preoccupation with closure impatiently rushes the sufferer to a premature conclusion. Closure must be allowed to take its own time. It is marked by the eventual acceptance that is able to integrate previous suffering into one’s life.”
- Leslie Allen

Psalm Laments:
Cry/Address (vs.1)
Complaint (vs. 2-18)
Confidence & Praise (vs. 19)
Deliverence (vs. 20-22)

“…Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.” - Num. 11:4-6

“how long will this people despise Me. How long will they not believe in Me in spite of all the signs I have done among them?” - Num. 14:11

“whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” 
- Jn. 6:35

 “I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they” - Num. 14:12

Snowflake: “is someone who has a an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, are over-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.” - Wikipedia

“Here the community is confessing the generational solidarity involved in its sinning.” - Leslie Allen

“The possibility of being beyond redemption is so alarming that many Jews refuse to end their reading of Lamentations with the book’s final verse. To this day, whenever the book is read, it is the custom in many synagogues to repeat verse 21 after verse 22.”
- Phillip Ryken