LAMENTATIONS "O LORD, think about this!
The faithful love of the LORD never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
Lamentations 3:22-23
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely
with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow
with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
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Should you treat your own people this way?
Should mothers eat their own children,
those they once bounced on their knees?
Should priests and prophets be killed
within the Lord's Temple?
See them lying in the streets--
young and old,
boys and girls,
killed by the swords of the enemy.
You have killed them in your anger,
slaughtering them without mercy.
You have invited terrors from all around,
as though you were calling them to a day of feasting.
In the day of the LORD's anger,
no one has escaped or survived.
The enemy has killed all the children
whom I carried and raised."
"O LORD, think about this! Should you treat your own people this way?"
Exodus 32:11
But Moses tried to pacify the LORD his God. "O LORD!" he said. "Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand?" (see all Exodus 32)
Deuteronomy 9:26
"I prayed to the LORD and said, 'O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy them. They are your own people. They are your special possession, whom you redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and your strong hand.' "
(see all Deuteronomy 9)
"Should mothers eat their own children, those they once bounced on their knees?
Deuteronomy 28:53
"The siege and terrible distress of the enemy's attack will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you." (see Deuteronomy 28:53-57)
Jeremiah 19:9
" 'I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.' " (see all Jeremiah 19)
Lamentations 4:10
Tenderhearted women
have cooked their own children.
They have eaten them
to survive the siege.
Ezekiel 5:10
"Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive." (see all Ezekiel 5)
"Should priests and prophets be killed within the Lord's Temple?"
Psalm 78:64
Their priests were slaughtered,
and their widows could not mourn their deaths. (see Psalm 78:56-64)
Jeremiah 14:15
"Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will punish these lying prophets, for they have spoken in my name even though I never sent them. They say no war or famine will come, but they themselves will die by war and famine!" (see Jeremiah 14:11-16)
Jeremiah 23:11-12
"Even the priests and prophets
are ungodly, wicked men.
I have seen their despicable acts
right here in my own Temple,"
says the LORD.
"Therefore, the paths they take
will become slippery.
They will be chased through the dark,
and there they will fall.
For I will bring disaster upon them
at the time fixed for their punishment.
I, the LORD have spoken!"
Lamentations 1:14
"I begged my allies for help,
but they betrayed me.
My priests and leaders
starved to death in the city,
even as they searched for food
to save their lives."
Lamentations 4:13
Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets
and the sins of her priests,
who defiled the city
by shedding innocent blood. (see Lamentations 4:12-16)
(parentheses are mine) Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living
Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.
Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois
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