Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Lamentations.

My friends, Lamentations is brutal.

It's not a fun, enjoyable romp.

It's not something that gives you a bunch of optimism and hope.

It is exactly what the name promises.

It is a deep dive into the deepest pits of human grief.

It's a tough read, even 2,500 years removed.

You can sense that the pain that is being written about and experienced by whoever wrote

this was probably Jeremiah, but we don't know for sure the book is technically anonymous.

That pain is unprecedented for them.

This is unprecedented for anybody.

There's no cultural memory of the kind of pain that is being collectively felt as the

circumstances that prompt the writing of this book.

It's disorienting.

Everything about the world is flipped on its head and is smashed with a hammer.

It feels like hope and morality and everything that you would use to orient yourself in

time and space and meaning and culture and language and faith and God, all of it is wrecked

in one fell swoop, in one horrible calamity.

The calamity that we're talking about, if you've been with me through this series, it keeps

coming up because the Bible keeps talking about it because indeed it's a gigantic catastrophe.

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