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Introduction to the Book of Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations records five

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poems of sorrow for the fallen city of
Jerusalem.

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Most believe that the prophet Jeremiah,
an eyewitness of the destruction in 586 B

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.C., wrote these Lamentations about
Jerusalem and the burning of the Temple.

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He said, Mine eyes do fail with tears for
the destruction of the daughter of my

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people.

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The Babylonians marched many of the Jewish
people into exile in Babylon, hundreds of

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miles away.

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These Lamentations express the hope that
God sympathizes with His people when they

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suffer.

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Despite the people's blatant, God-defying
sin and covenant-breaking rebellion,

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Jeremiah reasons, It is of the Lord's
mercies that we are not consumed,

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because His compassions fail not.

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Though His divine judgment was righteous,
the Lord longed for His people's

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repentance and return.

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And in time, they would repent.

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And God would keep His promise to bring
them back into the land and into the

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fullness of His love to glorify Him before
the nations.