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EREMIAH, the weeping prophet,
eventually found himself weeping and lamenting over an empty city. A
lamentation is an expression of sorrow. Jeremiah was full of sorrow as he
looked at the strewn destruction that had once been Zion, the beautiful city of
the Great King (Psalm 48:2). It was a sad and solitary scene. Jeremiah likened
his beloved city to a widow in deep debt. The saddest part of it all was that
it was all completely preventable. If the citizens of Jerusalem hadn't sinned
against Jehovah for decade after decade, He wouldn't have been driven to the
point of such wrath against His own city. But they did sin... and so, according
to Jeremiah, it was as if the forsaken city sat in stillness sighing, and
sighing again, again and again (Lamentations 1:8, 11, 21 & 22). It was a
city with no defender and no comforter (Lamentations 1:9). The walls were torn
down, the temple was gone, the population was almost nonexistent, and the ruins
of the city groaned with intense sorrow. Especially if we had seen Jerusalem
during its glory days, a glimpse of the city after Nebuchadnezzar was done with
it would cause us to say, "What a horridly sad and appalling sight!"
(Lamentations 1:17). We would sigh at the hopelessness of the scene.
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