Hello friends and welcome to Robcast 93.

And this is part two of a series called Learning to Lament on pain loss, suffering, and heartache.

And this is part two and it's called Widow Slave Mother.

Now, in this series, what I'm doing is I'm taking you through this book of lamentations

in the middle of the Bible and you would easily miss it if you were skimming through is this

collection of five poems.

And these five poems are about the devastation of the city of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem was destroyed.

Only a few people were left in the city while everybody else was hauled off to Babylon.

Roughly the year 500 BC.

And out of this destruction come these poems.

In the poems God doesn't speak.

And sometimes as God is on trial, the suffering is all blamed on God.

So it's this really interesting how did a group of poems survive in the Bible where God

doesn't speak.

God isn't really defended.

It's all God's fault.

And even the fifth poem comes to a crashing halt with God Restorist or maybe you're too

angry.

I mean, these poems are furious with God.

So whether or not you believe in God, whether or not you, it's just important to read them

as human poems that come out of devastation.

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