Lamentations is a fun little collection of different woe-filled cries. It’s very short. so that’s nice.
It starts out strong with basically, “Holy shit! Our great city is now abandoned Once she was like a queen and now she’s a slave!” They talk about how she (she being Jerusalem) cries at night cuz she’s lonely and her life sucks now. Judah’s gone into exile and apparently has feasts that no one comes to. Or just wishes they do. They lament about the loss of all their treasures that they once had.
Then they kind of guilt trip people who would walk by the now vacant city to think about how beautiful this city must have been and to think about all the suffering that must’ve happened here for it to be abandoned the way that it is.
“My young maidens and sons have gone into exile! Our allies betrayed us! Our enemies are super happy about all this shit!” Whoever wrote this shit was apparently still staying in Jerusalem and just sitting there hating everything. He mentions that he cries a lot and no one cares.
After a while of repeating the same 10 horrible things over and over he starts praying that Jerusalem will be a great city again. Then the book ends.
No comments:
Post a Comment