The Old Testament Book of Lamentations is not necessarily the place you would think to look to find encouragement and hope. Its writer Jeremiah is known as the weeping Prophet. And the five-chapter Book is comprised of five poems of lament expressing grief as deep and heavy as any ever written. Jerusalem has been destroyed by the Babylonians as agents of God’s judgment. The city lay in ruins and looked, from a modern perspective, like an atom bomb had been dropped on it. Starvation had compelled women to cook their own children. And Jeremiah expresses his bitter anguish…
14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"
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