How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee, I'm Steve Schwartz, and as we continue to journey journey through lamentations, we're going to focus on the character of God.

So let's pray and get right into it.

Heavenly Father, give us insight into who you are and how we can trust you more.

We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.

Turned out of Lamentations chapter one as we go through the Bible with Dr. J.

Verna McGee. Now we come back to the lamentations of Jeremiah where he opens his heart and his soul to us.

This book is so utterly pessimistic and actually horrifying.

And it is a book that's doleful. It's dark. It's depressing. And it's dark, depressing, and it's despairing, and some think even disgusting.

Yet it's very tender when we begin to get down beneath the sorrow and the tears of

Jeremiah to see this man's heart. Now Jeremiah describes with gory detail the awful destruction of Jerusalem and God's people

Israel. We don't like things like this. It's like the little bit of dogrel has it,

laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone for the sad old earth, must bar its mirth but has trouble enough of its own and so

this old earth wants to laugh but they don't want to cry. In this book I tell you it gets to your heartstrings.

Now he asked the question why does the city sit solitary?

Well, let me read verse 12.

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?

Behold and see if there be any sorrow, like under my sorrow that is done

unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. He asked the question, why does that city, the city of Jerusalem, sit solitary?

And he gives a twofold answer

Jerusalem hath grievously sin,

that was back in verse 8 of the first chapter.

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