Lamenting to God | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | September 11, 2025

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

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0:00.0	See, Lord, how distressed I am. I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed.
0:09.1	Lamentations 1, verse 20.
0:12.8	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:16.9	Lamenting to God was written and read by Amy Boucher Pye.
0:23.0	Lamentations, Chapter 1, verses 20 through 22.
0:27.7	See, Lord, how distressed I am.
0:30.6	I am in torment within.
0:33.2	And in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious.
0:38.9	Outside the sword bereaves, inside there is only death.
0:44.6	People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me.
0:49.6	All my enemies have heard of my distress.
0:52.6	They rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day
0:57.2	you have announced, so they may become like me. Let all their wickedness come before you.
1:05.2	Deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.
1:16.6	Lamenting to God. I viewed the opening displays of the 9-11 Memorial and Museum in New York City
1:24.9	with curiosity, but kept my emotions in check. That changed when we entered
1:31.1	the inner exhibit, which the curators have wisely closed off from children and those wanting
1:37.2	to shield themselves from the more heart-rending images. As I encountered story after story of heartbreak and loss, waves of lament rose within me.
1:50.8	When we witness or remember such destruction and pain, we can join the cries of those who have
1:57.2	voiced their distress to God. This includes the words of anguish found in lamentations,
2:03.8	which many scholars believe the prophet Jeremiah wrote after the destruction of Jerusalem.
2:10.2	In the tightly formed structure of this poem, he releases his sorrow and grief over the pain of
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