Perhaps the best introduction to this book we will study tonight is a poem written in 1923 by Thomas Chisholm, "Great Is Thy Faithfulness.”
Based on Lam. 3:23, this song captures many powerful truths about God:
O God My Father (Mt. 6:9)
There Is No Shadow… (Js. 1:17)
Thou Changest Not (Heb. 1:12)
Thy Compassion… (Lam. 3:22)
Jeremiah sits down and looks over the smoldering ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. His voice rises into the wail of sorrow – a lament. His funeral dirge over the city of God, inspired by the Spirit of God is a message for all the people of God.
This book is a master-crafted poem with five stanzas.
Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 each start with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, 22 in all.
This form of poetry, called an acrostic, is beautiful in form and powerful in communication.
Chapter 3 is the centerpiece of this poem, with three 22-verse acrostics, making it 66 verses long.
The book’s theme and this middle chapter agree as Jeremiah discovers—GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS, our Great Lord!
From OTI-25 – Lamentations (960911WE)
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