Lamentations consists of five laments over the destruction that Judah suffered at the hands of the Babylonians. The city of Jerusalem and the temple were both left in ruins and all the most skilled people had been exiled off to Babylon. All the promises of God for the nation seemed to lie in ruins, just as the city did.
The author is not named, but the book is traditionally thought to be written by Jeremiah. Whatever the case, the author definitely seems to have been an eyewitness of the events.
Deep and terrible things had happened to Jerusalem, admittedly through her own fault. Some of the things that happen to us are a direct consequence of our own sin. In books like Ezekiel and Jeremiah we get a forensic description and explanation of what was happening and why it happened, but we also need to work through the heart matters, and Lamentations does that.
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