Answer: "She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave."
"How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave" (Lamentations 1:1, NIV)
Lamentations describes Jerusalem as many people today would describe a ghost town. Her once busy streets are emptied. No one comes to the appointed feasts and festivals that used to bring travelers from around the world. The city is no longer rich and glamorous, but stripped of its wealth and beauty.
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Answer: Judah
Lamentations 1:3 "Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits."
Judah was conquered by the Babylonians. Jeremiah was very grieved by this event.
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Answer: Tears
The book of Lamentations has 5 chapters, 154 verses, and 3,415 words. It was written in 586 B.C. Lamentations is known as the book of tears because it is about mourning a city that was destroyed.
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Answer: Their many sins
"Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe." Lamentations 1:5 (NIV)
Judah and Jerusalem were once respected among the nations because of the tales of their God and His victories. However when they sinned, the nations laughed when God destroyed them. God treated His own people like He had treated the nations that blasphemed Him and served idols. Judah and Jerusalem's people were captured by their enemies and taken to the foreign lands they had once battled and had victory over. They were assimilated into different cultures and were strangers.
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Answer: The enemy prevailed.
Lamentations 1:16: "For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed."
When Jeremiah talks of children, he is not just referring to people who are not adults. "Children" refers to the children of God.
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Answer: Jeremiah
Lamentations is known as the personal testimony of Jeremiah written in the three months before he was kidnapped and sent to Egypt. Jeremiah was a court official under King Jehoiachin.
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Answer: anger
Lamentations 2:1 "How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!"
God is angry because the people of Israel have not been obeying him.
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Answer: Their prophets
"The visions of your prophets were false and worthless;
they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity.
The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading." Lamentations 2:14 (NIV)
False prophets had spread false visions and dreams that gave the people hope. They had said only what the people wanted to hear. They excused the people's sin and told them that they would be rulers over their enemies, when God had told them they would perish if they did not repent. When God had decided to destroy the nation, He tried to encourage the few that would to surrender to their enemies rather than be killed. However the people did not listen.
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Answer: He has become old.
Lamentations 3:4 "Flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."
I could not find an age for Jeremiah, but according to SimpleBiblestudies.com, Jeremiah became a prophet at age 14 and continued for 40 years.
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Answer: Lie on the grounds of the street
Lamentations 2:20 states that the priests were killed in their sanctuaries and Lamentations 2:21 states that the men and virgins were killed by the sword.
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Answer: the salvation of the Lord
Lamentations 3:26 "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord."
This is a prophetic verse according to the Christian religion. He tells them to wait for salvation. Today, Christians believe that we do not have to wait to be saved because Jesus has already come to earth, so today we don't have to wait for it, we just have to accept it.
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Answer: Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Lamentations 3:22-23 states, "It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness". In 1923, Thomas Chisholm turned that verse into a Christian hymn and made it the unofficial hymn of Moody Bible Institute.
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Answer: God had great love and His compassions were new every morning.
The writer of Lamentations remembered God's mercies and wrote, "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22-23, NIV)
The writer knew that God had the ability to show mercy and He still loved His people in spite of the mistakes they had made. His love kept Him from destroying them completely.
Lamentations 3:31-33 (NIV) also said, "For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone"
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Answer: ostrich
Lamentations 4:3 "Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness."
According to wikipedia.com, ostrich parents will fight other ostrich parents in the wilderness and the winner gets both ostriches' young. Taking another's young seems cruel, so this might be an example of how the ostrich can be cruel in the wilderness.
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Answer: Uz
The land of Uz is named after Abraham's grandson and is the home of Job and his family. It is located southeast of Palestine and continues to the Euphrates river. Uz is also known as the land of Edom.
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Answer: The Lord told him not to be afraid and redeemed his life.
The writer of Lamentations shared how God saw from heaven and redeemed his life when he cried out to Him.
"I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit.
You heard my plea: 'Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.' You came near when I called you, and you said, 'Do not fear.' You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life." (Lamentations 3:55-58, NIV)
The writer told the people how it is good to wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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Answer: Her Nazarites
Lamentations 4:7 "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire."
Nazarite comes from the Hebrew word "nazir" which means "consecrated" or "separated" according to wikipedia.com.
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Answer: By their hands
Lamentations 5:11-12, states that that women in Zion and maids in Judah were assaulted, the princes were hanged by their hands, and the elders were shamed.
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Answer: Edom
"Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion; he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom, and expose your wickedness." (Lamentations 4:22, NIV)
Edom was the nation of descendants of Esau. They had laughed at Jacob's destruction, and the writer of Lamentations reminded them that God would also destroy them.
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Answer: Three
Lamentations 3:1-66 is Jeremiah's cry to God and is the longest chapter in the book of Lamentations.
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Answer: His throne endures from generation to generation.
"You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation." (Lamentations 5:19, NIV)
Lamentations reminded God's people that God would endure forever. This was a promise of hope for God's people because when they returned from captivity, God would still be there for them and would still love them.
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Answer: princes
Lamentations 5:12 "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
Again, this verse shows all the trouble Israel is facing because of its disobedience to God.
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Answer: the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Chapters 1, 2, and 4 of Lamentations are special acrostics that each have 22 individual verses corresponding with the letters of Hebrew alphabet. The verses are in order with the Hebrew alphabet order. Chapter 3 is made up of 66 verses but each section still corresponds with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Chapter 5 is not an acrostic but has 22 verses like the acrostic chapters.
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Answer: us
Lamentations 5:22 "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."
I hope you enjoyed this quiz. The next one will be on Ezekiel.
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