Category Archives: Lamentations

Lamenting our Sin

Posted on May 17, 2021 by eig

We often don’t hear too many sermons on the book of Lamentations. The reasons seem obvious to me. It is a book that deals with the lamenting of God’s discipline over Jerusalem (The Southern Kingdom of Israel or Judah) due to her sin. Yet this book, through its poetic nature, serves as as example of […]

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Having Compassion for those that Lament

Posted on May 5, 2021 by eig

Lament is part of the expression of what we feel due to a situation that someone causes or that we have caused. We often express this lament in the presence of others especially when it’s something tragic. This is common in our culture. As believers, we know that God is involved in our lament. The […]

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La Infidelidad a Dios No trae Buenos Resultados

Posted on May 5, 2021 by eig

En el libro de Lamentaciones encontramos que el Señor tiene que castigar la infidelidad de Judá. Judá reconoce su error y su lamento es expresado en el capítulo 1; Primero, reconoce que Dios es justo y que la culpa es suya. “Jehová es justo; yo contra su palabra me rebelé.Oíd ahora, pueblos todos, y ved […]

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Lamenting the Death of a City (part 2)

Posted on May 3, 2021 by eig

In the following verses of Lamentations the author expresses what Jerusalem has lost because of her rebellion and asks God to look at her suffering and hear her. First, he remembers what she had before and lost.  “Jerusalem remembers all the treasures    that were hers in days of old.When her people fell into enemy hands,    there was […]

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Lamenting the Death of a City (Part 1)

Posted on May 3, 2021 by eig

On August 6, 1945, the American B-29 aircraft dropped at 2,000 feet high the first nuclear bomb in the Japanese city of Hiroshima instantly killing 80,000 people an area of about five square miles. Japan remained reluctant to surrender, and the next day, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing 40,000 people. This led […]

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The book of Lamentations

Posted on April 26, 2021 by eig

In the following posts, I will offer some thoughts on the book of Lamentations. It is a book that documents in poetic form the destruction, violence, cruelty and pain of the city of Jerusalem in 568 a.C by the Babylonians. It is a not popular nor a well-known book among Christians. In this post I […]

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