Quotes about Lamentations
The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.
— Lamentations 4:6
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 4:10
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
— Lamentations 5:1
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
— Lamentations 5:11
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
— Lamentations 5:16
So then, we must not read Lamentations without the rest of the Bible. But equally, we should not read the rest of the Bible without Lamentations (as Christians have habitually tended to do).
— Christopher Wright
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lam 3:21—23).
— Kathleen Norris
It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality of the suffering of the artist, composer or writer, but it points to something creative and redemptive in the human person, made in the image of God, which can bring forth a thing of beauty in the midst of surrounding ugliness, brutality and evil. Nowhere is this more true than in the book of Lamentations.
— Christopher Wright
Neither explaining suffering nor offering a program for the elimination of suffering, Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering.
— Eugene Peterson
Lamentations is insurance against premature comfort, against "healing the wounds of my people lightly" During the time of ruin there are always those who attempt to cover the wounds of judgment with band-aid comfort. But comfort cannot function apart from a serious grappling with the pain of judgment.
— Eugene Peterson
I continually remember them and have become depressed. Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope. Lamentations 3:20—21
— Beth Moore
His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! Lamentations 3:22—23
— Beth Moore