Opening the Scriptures! Three Year Study thru the Bible Daily Reading - Bookmark available in the back Weekly Study – on Wednesday nights at 6:30 This week: Lamentations Jesus expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself … And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures Luke 24:27,45

Pekah Pekahiah Hoshea 722 bc Assyrian Captivity Ten Tribes of Israel Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon Josiah Jehoahaz Jeoiakim Jehoiachin Zedekiah Babylonian Captivity 586bc Nahum Zephaniah Habakkuk Jeremiah Daniel Ezekiel Isaiah

the way of the unfaithful is hard. Proverbs 13:15

For when you were slaves of sin.. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. Romans 6:20-21

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10

אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָדָד בָּכוֹ תִבְכֶּה בַּלַּיְלָה גָּלְתָה יְהוּדָה דַּרְכֵי צִיּוֹן A b G דַּ Lam 1:1 Lam 1:2 Lam 1:3 Lam 1:4

ABCDABCD Alas, how lonely Bitter tears are ours Captivity because.. Desolate are her gates 1:1 1:2 1:3 1:4

Septuagint (Greek Translation of the Hebrew OT) And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said,

Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Luke 19:41-42

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 a.Desolation’s Description 1:1-12 Lonely v.1-3 Outline of Lamentations

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:3

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 a.Desolation’s Description 1:1-12 Lonely v.1-3 Desolate v.4 Splendor departed v.6-7 Shame v.8-9 Outline of Lamentations

…She did not consider her future. Therefore she has fallen astonishingly …(NASB) She defiled herself with immorality and gave no thought to her future. … (NLT) Her filthiness was in and on her skirts; she did not [seriously and earnestly] consider her final end. (AMP) Lamentations 1:9

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 a.Desolation’s Description 1:1-12 Lonely v.1-3 Desolate v.4 Splendor departed v.6-7 Shame v.8-9 Sighing and Sorrow v Outline of Lamentations

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 a.Desolation’s Description 1:1-12 b.Desolation’s Despair 1:13-17 c.Desolation’s Desire (Prayer) 1:18-22 Outline of Lamentations

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 II.The Discipline of Sin – Ch 2 a. God has Disciplined (2:1–9) b. Discipline Described (2:10-16) c. Discipline’s Response encouraged(2:17-22) Outline of Lamentations

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 II.The Discipline of Sin – Ch 2 III.The Discouragement of Sin – Ch 3 a. Darkness of seeing God’s wrath (1-18) b. Hope of God’s Mercy (19-39) c. Call for Spiritual Renewal (40-51) d. Confidence in God’s justice (52-66) Outline of Lamentations

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 II.The Discipline of Sin – Ch 2 III.The Discouragement of Sin – Ch 3 IV.The Experience of Wrath - Ch 4 a. The Decent (1-10) b. The Fall (11-20) c. The Warning (21-22) Outline of Lamentations

I.The Desolation of Sin – Ch 1 II.The Discipline of Sin – Ch 2 III.The Discouragement of Sin – Ch 3 IV.The Experience of Wrath - Ch 4 V.The Prayer from Wrath – Ch 5 a. Remember us (1-18) b. Renew us (19-22) Outline of Lamentations

Lamentation for Sin on our Savior Lam 1:12 Lam 2:15 Lam 3:14-15 Lam 3:30