Lamentations – General
Lamentations is simply a continuance of the ravings of the same insane pessimist; nothing but dust and sackcloth and ashes, tears and howls, railings and reviling.
Lamentations 1:15-16 - God tramples "as in a winepress" mighty men, young men, and virgins.
Lamentations 2:2-12 - With one small phrase, the writer sums up how the Biblical God often acts: "The LORD was as an enemy." He goes on about how God has punished everyone without pity, including allowing Israel's enemies to defeat them, destroying palaces, homes, temples and more, causing mourning and exile. Then a tear-jerking passage on the starvation of children.
Lamentations 2:9 - Apparently, the destruction wrought by God was so bad, "the law is no more." But what about those other verses that say the law are "forever" and so on? And, the prophets are no longer hearing from God? Is that a permanent thing or what?
Lamentations 2:14 - Prophets have vain and foolish visions.
Lamentations 2:15-19 - "The LORD hath done that which he had devised" and he did it without pity. That explains the murder, slavery, oppression, grief, destruction Jerusalem has suffered. Then, in verse 19, the writer urges his followers to beg God for the sake of their children. So much for being the "chosen people."
Lamentations 2:20-22 - God gets angry and mercilessly torments and kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children.
Lamentations 3:10-11 - God is like a bear or a lion that secretly pursues you and then tears you apart.
Lamentations 3:33 - This verse says that God does not "afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." Yet he often instructs his followers to mercilessly slaughter innocent people and even more often, he does so himself.
Lamentations 3:38 - "Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not good and evil?" Mostly evil, I'd say at least if you believe the Bible.
Lamentations 3:43-48 - God is covered with anger, slaying people without pity.
Lamentations 4:3 - Ostriches are not cruel and inattentive parents, as this verse implies. They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the female during the day and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched, they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults.
Lamentations 4:10-11 - Once more the good God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. Praise God.
Lamentations 4:21 - When God gets angry at you he calls you a drunken whore.
