This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we examine the often avoided book of lamentations and the shocking space it creates

for the dark things that need to be grieved.

Yeah, book of lamentations. Sounds very fun.

I know. It is definitely not the book you look forward to. Just excited to get to the book of

lamentations. I know a whole lot of sermons being preached on lamentations. The book we just,

boy, it's dark. It is foreboding. We don't dig, we don't dig into it much, but it is. What kind of

a profit, Brent, where are we at? We're in the Babylonian profits. Babylonian profits, okay?

Tradition says that Jeremiah wrote lamentations weeping profit would make sense.

I'm not sure there's much credence to the tradition, but tradition credits him with authorship.

I don't think academia does, but reading lamentations will make you weep.

That is true. Let's just quickly review profits. We've been pre-serying profits. What we got?

We've got Amos and Hosea. Amos and Hosea. What were their images? Amos was.

Paul Mline wrote fruit and Hosea did married the prostitute. All right.

And what we have, Judah profits for pre-series. We had a Micah in First Isaiah with the images of

judge and vineyard, respectively. After pre-serying, we had a Syrian. We had four profits,

two to Isaiah, or two to Israel. Two Isaiah. That'd be interesting. I know, right? Profit to the profit.

Assistant to the regional manager. That's right. We had Jonah with a picture of potential,

in whom with the picture of Dean. Dean, a retributive justice, the pronouncement of incoming judgment.

Okay. And then we had two profits to Judah, at the same time. We had

Zephaniahu. Zephaniah. And that was image of Toshuva return, repent. Okay. And then second

Isaiah with the image of woe. Yeah. Okay. And like that. And then like woe, or sea, but woe isn't.

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