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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Lamentations 2:1-10
In ch. 1 the enemies of Jerusalem were held responsible for all her troubles. From now on, all that has happened is seen as the work of the Lord and of Him alone. May we also learn to recognise the One who disciplines us, sometimes to punish us, but always to bless us in the end. Instead of being stopped in our Christian life by the means which God uses to achieve this: worries about health and money, annoying things which crop up at work . . . instead of seeking merely to be relieved of them as soon as possible, let us humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and cast all our cares on Him, for He cares about us (1 Peter 5:6-7).
Jerusalem makes a full inventory of the disaster which has befallen her. Her king, her priests and her prophets have either been taken captive or massacred, her solemn forms of worship have been abolished, her walls ruined. Nothing has been spared, not even the most sacred things: the altar and the sanctuary have been defiled (1:10) and wrecked, and the precious objects taken away to Babylon right down to the ark itself, "His footstool" (v. 1; Psalms 132:7), along with the law which was contained in it! (v. 9; 1 Kings 8:9). It disappears for ever, proof that God was breaking off the relations with His guilty people, which had been based on it.
