Lamentations: "A cry from the deep, with the glimmer of hope"

What if we woke up to this headline one day:

Would you be so inclined to mourn for your country? This is a foreign concept to us as Americans since we think our military is untouchable. However, imagine the feeling you would have if this really happened. If our country was taken captive by a foreign land and all of us taken into captivity as well. Would you mourn the loss of this great nation? What if you then found out that God was personally behind it and it was our sin that caused it? That would stir up some emotions wouldn't it?

Lamentations is a book in the Old Testament that we will begin teaching through for the next 4 Sundays. The book is known for the famous passage "God's mercies are new every day", but do we know why the author would say that? Maybe because he is writing 5 laments over the loss of his great nation, Jerusalem.

The author of this book is not specifically named, however Jeremiah is said to have "uttered a lament for Josiah" (2 Chronicles 35:25) and so he is thought to be the author. Above you will find a chart of the book, podcasts will be available on Itunes and on DBSM's fan page. Later peeps.