The mercies6/19/2023 Centuries before that, when they were preparing to enter the Promised Land, God had told them, through Moses, what would happen if they disobeyed Him and didn’t repent. They continued doing what was an abomination for the Lord and sacrificing to the idols.īut they should know better. But the people of Israel didn’t pay attention to their words. Jeremiah and many other prophets before him had warned the people about the consequences of disobeying God, especially regarding idol worship. The survivors were taken into exile, far away from the Promised Land. Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentations to express his grief about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of God by the Babylonians. But even with his heartbroken by the events he witnessed, he still had a message of hope for the people and for us. Amid an unthinkable tragedy, the prophet Jeremiah pours out his heart into words that describe his agony. Not just that, it deals with the suffering of the people of God. The book of Lamentations deals with suffering. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV) “ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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