Chapter 2
“How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of His anger”. Lamentations has a view on the situation that we rarely find expressed these days. We should remember that this is the Biblical view, it is our modern view that needs to be modified! To seek to modify the Biblical view to fit with our modern ways of thinking is a foolish path to go down. At the same time we should take passages like this (indeed, books like this) in the context of the whole word of God. The correct approach to the Bible is to take all that it says and to understand how it all fits together, not to take bits of the Bible rejecting some while accepting others.
This chapter is an unremitting description of how the Lord had torn Jerusalem apart. There is no heaping the blame upon other nations, it is all seen as the action of God, indeed the righteous action of God against unrighteous Judah. Yet that is not all. In 2:11 we read that “I am in torment within”.Jeremiah is full of sorrow at the plight of his people. But it is not just that they have suffered and are suffering, it is also sorrow at their spiritual condition.
In verse 13 we find the phrase “Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?” May I remind you yet again that when Is 53:5 says “by His wounds we are healed”, it is these wounds, the wounds of sin, that it is primarily talking about. The cross heals the deepest problem that we have, our sin.
There were many false prophets prophesying safety. Their words were just so much hot air.
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