Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with silence in Jerusalem as we pick up in Lamentations chapter 1 verse 1 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

So we turn now in our Bibles to the Book of Lamentations?

The Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible

does not appear in the same place that appears in our Bibles.

In the Hebrew Bible, it appears with a group of books, Esther,

and Ruth, Job, and Ezra.

It was written by Jeremiah,

and that is why in our Bibles they inserted it

after the Book of Jeremiah, because it is almost sort of a epilogue to the book of

Jeremiah in that it follows the destruction of the city of Jerusalem.

There is on the site of Golgotha a cave that is called Jeremiah's Grotto.

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