“Lamentations 2–4: Why Judah Was Punished,” Old Testament Seminary Student Study Guide (2002), 167
“Lamentations 2–4,” Old Testament Seminary Student Study Guide, 167
Why Judah Was Punished
Lamentations 2–4 are expressions of sadness over what happened to the people of Judah. Lamentations 2 clearly states that the Lord punished His people because of their sins and for their own good. Lamentations 3 contains the expressions of a people that feel forsaken by the Lord but still trust and find hope in the thought that He has not forsaken them forever. Lamentations 4 records Jeremiah’s sorrow as he compares the way Israel lived as a righteous people with what they had become after the Babylonian conquest.