Handbook for Bible Students

Lamentations

Key-word, “Destruction;” Key-verse, 2:11.-This is the minor strain of prophecy, a funeral dirge. The weeping prophet, whose life was one long martyrdom, fully identified with the sorrow of his people and the desolation of the Holy City, utters the wail of a broken heart. He sees the Chaldean army as the scourge of God chastising his wayward people: but even his judgments call them to return. (Cf. Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. Luke 19:41, 42.) [p. 61] HBS 39.5