Lamentations is a national eulogy, a collection of five poems grieving the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. The book comes to terms with God, who brought about the death of his nation. While Babylon besieged the city and destroyed the Temple, Lamentations focuses entirely on God, who was behind it. Judged for their grievous sins, the exiles are in their darkest days. But amid grief, there is hope for national restoration (5:19-22). God's "hesed" (covenant love) is the basis for this hope (3:21-22). The New Testament shows that their hope was not in vain. Jesus Christ came as the divine warrior to triumph over his enemies (Col. 2:15). And as the true temple (Jn. 2:19), he too was crushed by God for the sins of his people and rose again to make his Jew and Gentile church into a living temple and a holy nation (Acts 2:23-24; Eph. 2:19-22; 1 Pet. 2:9). These glorious realities will be fully realized in the second coming when Jesus treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God over his enemies and ushers his church into the heavenly Jerusalem and the new creation (Rev. 19:15; 21:1-2).
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