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God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:17-20 The Second Adam
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:17-20 Click to listen to this devotion. 17 You deprived my soul of peace.I have forgotten what happiness is.18 So I say, “My endurance is goneand my hope from the LORD as well.”19 Remember my poverty and my wandering,the wormwood and the gall.20 My soul remembers them well,and it is humbled […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:16 Ground teeth, ashes, and all
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:16 Click to listen to this devotion. 16 He has ground my teeth with gravel.He has made me cower in ashes. This unusual verse may show a peculiar trouble for the Jews in Babylon. This can have two meanings: either to force one to “eat dirt” literally or figuratively. But the […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:13-15 Wash your face
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:13-15 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 He shot me in the heart with arrows from his quiver.14 I was the laughingstock of all my people;they mock me in song all day long.15 He made me eat my fill with bitter herbsand forced me to drink gall. The bow and […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:10-12 A dove on distant oaks
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:10-12 Click to listen to this devotion. 10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me;like a lion in hiding.11 He dragged me from the path and tore me apart.He left me without help.12 He strung his bowand made me the target for his arrow. These verses tell the […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:7-9 Walled up and walled in
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:7-9 Click to listen to this devotion. 7 He has walled me in, so I cannot get out.He has weighed me down with chains.8 Even when I call out or cry for help,he shuts out my prayer.9 He has walled off my road with blocks of stone.He has twisted my paths. […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:4-6 Christ in the grave
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:4-6 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 He has worn out my skin and my fleshand has shattered my bones.5 He has besieged meand surrounded me with poison and hardship.6 He has made me dwell in darknesslike those who are dead a long time. In these verses, the terrible cross […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:2-3 Turned, turned against me
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:2-3 Click to listen to this devotion. 2 He drove me awayand made me walk in darkness rather than light.3 He surely turned against me;turned his hand against me all day long. Under the first cross, our author remembers being driven from Jerusalem and Judah. Even Jeremiah, who was released from […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:1 The rod of fury
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:1 Click to listen to this devotion. Chapter 3 brings us to the center of Lamentations. It is just barely the longest chapter by word count with 381 words. Chapter 1 has 365 words, and chapter 2 has 380. The last chapters are considerably shorter (3:1 is the center of the […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 2:22 He will surely protect you
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 2:22 Click to listen to this devotion. 22 “You summoned as on a feast day,but to terrors on every side.There was none in the day of the LORD’s anger,who escaped or survived;those I cared for and reared,my enemy has destroyed.” Jeremiah quoted Psalm 31 many times by saying that there was […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 2:21 The necessity of our crosses
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 2:21 Click to listen to this devotion. 21 The young and the oldare lying on the ground in the streets;my virgins and my young menhave fallen by the sword.In the day of your anger you have killed them,you slaughtered and did not spare them. The result of the slaughter is not […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 2:19-20 Who can be against us
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 2:19-20 Click to listen to this devotion. The content of verse 20 might be especially upsetting to some readers or listeners. 19 Stand up, cry out in the night,just as the watches begin.Pour out your heart like waterin the presence of the Lord!Lift your hands to him in prayerfor the lives […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 2:17-18 The prayer begins
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 2:17-18 Click to listen to this devotion. 17 The LORD has done what he planned,he has carried out his threat, which he declared long ago.He tore down and did not spare anyone.He made the enemy rejoice over you,and he raised up the horn of your foes. Just what had the Lord […]
