Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits (Lamentations 1:3).
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What can we gain from the Book of Lamentations?
The Book of #Lamentations can be found between Jeremiah and Ezekiel in English translations of the #Bible. In the Hebrew Bible, it is part of the megillot, or five scrolls, as part of the Writings. The Book of Lamentations is often associated with Jeremiah.
It represents a first-person report and lament over the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple at the hands of the Babylonians in 586 BCE and the exile which followed.
How can we make God our refuge?
David recognized his life and time were in God's hands, and thus he asked God to deliver him from his enemies and persecutors.
He wanted YHWH's face to shine upon him, and to be saved in YHWH's covenant loyalty.
David took refuge in YHWH, and wished to never be put to shame.
David asked YHWH to listen to him and deliver him as a strong rock and defense.
David wanted to be rescued from the snares his enemies had set for him.
David commended his spirit into YHWH's hand, for He had redeemed him.
What is the Book of #Lamentations all about?
How can the Book of Lamentations inform how we can, and should, lament before God?
The Book of Lamentations | Books of the Bible
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How did Stephen imitate His Lord before the Sanhedrin?
After having turned the tables and condemned the Sanhedrin (Acts 7:1-54), Stephen saw a vision of the exalted Christ, the one like a Son of Man at the right hand of God.
Members of the Sanhedrin, all the more enraged, rushed at him and stoned him with stones.
Stephen cried out to the Lord to not hold this sin against them, and to receive his spirit.
Those who stoned him laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Stephen fell asleep.