I.
Jerusalem destroyed by her sin
A.1:1
“How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has
she become, she who was great among the nations!”
B.V2-3: “She weeps bitterly in the
night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort
her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her
enemies. Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude;
she now dwells among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have
all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.”
C.V. 9: “Her uncleanness was in her
skirts; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. ‘O Lord, behold
my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!’ The enemy has stretched out his
hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her
sanctuary, those whom You forbade to enter Your congregation.”
D.
V. 11: “All her people groan as they search for bread;they
trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. ‘Look, O Lord, and
see, for I am despised.’”
E. V. 16. “For these things I weep; my eyes flow
with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my
children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”
F.
V19: “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished
in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.”
II.
God takes personal responsibility for what happened – for the destruction.
A.v.1: “How the Lord in his anger has
set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!”
B.V 2: “The Lord has swallowed up
without mercy all the habitations of Jacob.”
C.V 3: “He has cut down in fierce
anger,” and in the midst of these verses it keeps saying, “He did this. He did
this.”
D.V4: “He has bent his bow like an
enemy.”
E.V 5: “The Lord has become like an
enemy. He has swallowed up Israel.” V6: “He laid waste.”
F.V. 11-12, “My eyes are spent with
weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the
destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in
the streets of the city. They cry to their mothers, ‘Where is bread and wine?’
as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is
poured out on their mothers' bosom.”
III.
LESSONS
- A.It’s very clear that God can bless
a nation, but God can also destroy a nation.
- B.God has various forms of judgment.
- C.We should weep over our nation even
as Jeremiah wept over his nation.
- D.We should weep with hope.
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