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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b>LAMENTATIONS: FOR DESTRUCTION
AND HUMILIATION OF JERUSALEM</b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1. 1:12 (1) JEREMIAH: HIS
FIRST LAMENTATION. <font size="3">“Is it nothing to you, all you who
pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which
was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his
fierce anger.” </font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
fierce Your judgments upon continued sin and rebellion, Father, God
of the FEAR OF JEHOVAH! May we never forget to balance Your love with
Your fear! </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>Hallowed be your :name!</i></font></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>2. 2:8 (2) JEREMIAH: HIS SECOND LAMENTATION. They
cry to their mothers, “Where is the bread and wine?” as they
faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is
poured out on their mothers’ bosom.” </b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
You destroy our wall, You cease to deliver us from the evil one,
Father. He then comes in against us at will. </span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>Your
:kingdom come.</i></font></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">3. 3:1 (3:1-20)
JEREMIAH: HIS THIRD LAMENTATION. </font>“I am the man who has
seen affliction under the rod of his wrath.” </b><span style="font-weight:normal">The
righteous at times suffer with the wicked. The prophets see the
fulfillment of their dread prophecies, and ourn and shudder. There is
a time for jdgment, but thankGod there is also a time to heal. </span><b><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4. 3:22-23 (3:21-38)
JEREMIAH: HIS CONFIDENCE IN JEHOVAH. <font size="3">“The steadfast
love of the LORD is never ceasing, his mercies never come to an end;
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">23 </font>they are new
every morning; great is your faithfulness.” </b><span style="font-weight:normal">Thank
God for this note. Following the dark night of the soul comes joy in
the morning. O forgive us Father, for doubting You! Your
chastisements are also in love, to bring us to our senses. Then You
can restore us! </span><b><i>Our :daily :bread Give us this day!</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5. 3:40 (3:39-66) JEREMIAH:
HIS CONFESSION AND PRAYER. <font size="3">“Let us test and examine
our ways, and return to the LORD!” </font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes,
here is the right response to judgment and chastisement. Father, You
but design such extreme times for our own good. </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also hve forgiven our :debtors.</i></font></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font size="3">6. 4:11 (4)
JEREMIAH: HIS FOURTH LAMENTATION. “The LORD gave full vent to his
wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion
that consumed his foundtion.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes,
Your judgments O father have an end. You desire to perfect holiness
in Your fear. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom, the
beginning of knowledge and turns us from sin! </span><b><i>And bring
us not into temptation!</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7. 5:21 (5) JEREMIAH: HIS
FIFTH LAMENTATION. <font size="3">“Restore us to yourself, O LORD,
that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old -” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We
need to pray this, Father. We are so weak. Inour flesh dwells </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">no
good thing</span></u><span style="font-weight:normal">. Teach us to
have </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">no confidence</span></u><span style="font-weight:normal">
in the flesh. We would only worship You in the Spirit and glory in
Christ Jesus! </span><b><i>But deliver us from the evil </i>one!</b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b><u>NOTE</u>: 2:9 (2)
JEREMIAH: A FURTHER WORD OF HIS PROPHECY. <font size="3">“Her gates
have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her
kings and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, andher
prophets find no vision from the LORD.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is the ultimte in judgment and the fierce anger of JEHOVAH for His
Name’s sake. Your holiness Father, has been violated by Your people
who call themselves by Your Name. Write this judgment upon our
hearts! This is the cry of Tisha B’Av! This is the response of a
true </span><i><span style="font-weight:normal">talmid teshuvah
(disciple of return).</span></i><b><font size="3"><i> </i></font><font size="3"><i>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font size="3">C.H. Spurgeon
Quote: “No Compulsion” - </font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">“Mark
that in the father’s drawing there is no compulsion whatever;
Christ never compelled any man to come to him against his will. If a
man be unwilling to be saved, Christ does not save him against his
will.” </span></font></font>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font size="3">Our Psalm for
the Day: 126:1-2a (126) RESTORE OUR FORTUNES, O LORD. </font><font size="3">“When
the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2a </font><font size="3">Then
our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of
joy.” </font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You are the One Who sets the captives free! Your restore us from
prison and captivity! You return us to joy! </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="font-weight:normal">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></font></font></p>
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<font size="3">This is the seventh step, and we may therefore expect to
meet with some special perfection of joy in it; nor shall we look in
vain. We see here not only that Zion abides but that her joy returns
after sorrow. Abiding is not enough, fruitfulness is added. The
pilgrims went from blessing to blessing in their Psalmody as they
proceeded on their holy way. Happy people to whom every ascent was a
song, every halt a hymn. Here the truster becomes a sower: faith
works by love, obtains a present bliss, and secures a harvest of
delight. The Psalm divides itself into a narrative (1-2),
a song (3), a prayer (4), and a promise (5 and 6).</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">126:1
</span></font><b><font size="3"><i>When the Lord turned again the
captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. </i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">So
sudden and so overwhelming was their joy that they felt like men out
of themselves, ecstatic, or in a trance. The captivity had been
great, and great was the deliverance; for the great God Himself had
wrought it: it seemed too good to be actually true. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Let
us look to the prison-houses from which we have been set free. Ah,
me, what captives we have been! At our first conversion, what a
turning again of captivity we experienced! Never shall that hour be
forgotten. Joy! Joy! Joy! Since then, from multiplied troubles, from
depression of spirit, from miserable backsliding, from grievous
doubt, we have been emancipated, and we are not able to describe the
bliss which followed each emancipation. The people remembered this
joy-flood for years after, and here is the record of it turned into
song. </span></font></font>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">126:2.
</span></font><b><font size="3"><i>Then was our mouth filled with
laughter, and our tongue with singing. </i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">When
at last the tongue could move more articulately, it could not be
content simply to talk, but it must needs sing; and sing heartily,
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">too, for
it was full of singing. Doubtless the former pain added to the zest
of the pleasure; the captivity threw a brighter color into the
emancipation. The people remembered this joy-flood for years after,
and here is the record of it turned into a song. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Note
the </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>when</i></font><font size="3"> </font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">and
the </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>then</i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
God’s </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>when</i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is our </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>then</i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
At the moment when He turns our captivity, the heart turns from its
sorrow; when He fills us with grace, we are filled with gratitude. We
were made to be as them that dream, but we both laughed and sang in
our sleep. We are wide awake now, and though we can scarcely realize
the blessing, yet we rejoice in it exceedingly. </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>Then
said </i></font><font size="3"><i>t</i></font><font size="3"><i>hey among
</i></font><font size="3"><i>t</i></font><font size="3"><i>he heathen,
the Lord </i></font><font size="3"><i>has done great things for them.
</i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">It is a
blessed thing when saints set sinners talking about the
loving-kindness of the Lord: and it is equally blessed when the
saints, who are hidden away in the world, there of what the Lord has
done for His church, and themselves resolve to come out from their
captivity and un</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">i</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">te
with the Lord’s people.</span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">126:3.
</span></font><b><font size="3"><i>The Lord has done great things for
us; whereof we are glad. </i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">I
heard one say the other day in prayer, “whereof we desire to be be
glad.” Strange dilution and defilement of Scriptural language!
Surely if God has done great things for us we are glad and cannot be
otherwise. No doubt such language is meant to be lowly, but in truth
it is </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">a</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">s
loathsome.</span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">126:5.
</span></font><b><font size="3"><i>They that sow in tears shall reap
in joy. </i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Our
mouth has never been filled with holy laughter if it had not been
first filled with the bitterness of grief. We must sow: we may have
to sow in the wet weather of sorrow; but we shall reap, and reap in
the bright summer season of joy. When a man’s heart is so
stirred that he weeps over the sins of others, he is elect to
usefulness. Winners of souls are first weepers for souls. As there is
no birth without travail, so is there no spiritual harvest without
painful tillage. When our own hearts are broken with grief at man’s
transgression, we shall break other men’s hearts: tears of
earnestness beget tears of repentance: “deep call unto deep.”</span></font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:11pt"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">126:6
</span></font><b><font size="3"><i>He that goes forth and weeps,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
binging his sheaves with him. He. </i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
general assurance is applied to each one in particular. That which is
spoken in the previous verse in the plural - “they” - is here
repeated in the singular - “he.” He leaves his couch to go forth
into the frosty air and tread the heavy soil; and as he goes, he
weeps because of past failures, or because the ground is so sterile,
or the weather so unseasonable, or his corn so scarce, and his
enemies so plentiful and so eager to rob him of his reward. He
drops a seed and a a </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">t</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">ear,
a seed and a tear, and so goes on his way. In his basket, he has seed
which is so precious to him, for he has little of it, and it is his
hope for the next year. Each grain leaves his hand with anxious
prayer that it may not be lost; he thinks little of himself but much
of his seed, and he eagerly asks, “Will it prosper? Shall I receive
a reward for my labor?” Yes, good husbandman, </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>doubtless</i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">
you will gather sheaves from your sowing. Because the Lord has
written </span></font><b><font size="3"><i>doubtless</i></font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
take heed that you do not doubt. It is somewhat singular to
find this promise of fruitfulness in close contact with return from
captivity; and yet it is so in our own experience, for when our own
soul is revived, the souls of others are blessed by our labors. If
any of us, having been once lonesome and lingering captives, have now
returned home, and have become longing and laboring sowers, my true
Lord, Who has already delivered us, soon transform</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">
us into glad-hearted reapers, and to Him shall be praise forever and
ever. Amen. </span></font><b><font size="3">(From “The Treasury of
David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O. Fuller)</font></b></font></p>
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