Lamentations

One

1) What description is given of the city (1-2)?

2) How is the exile described (3)?

3) Why are the roads of Zion mourning (4)?

4) What has happened to God's people (5)?

   Why has this happened?
5) What does Jerusalem do in her days of affliction and homelessness (7)?


6) How is the punishment described (13-15)?


7) How strong is the lamentation (16)?

8) How do the enemies act about the punishment (21)?

   What request is made about these enemies (21-22)?


Two

1) What has happened to the habitations (2-5)?


2) What has happened to the religious sites (6-7)?

3) What has happened to the walls and gates of the city (8-9)?

4) What has happened to the leaders (9-10)?

5) What has happened to the children (11-12)?

6) What is the reaction of those who pass by (15)?

7) What is the reaction of the enemies (16)?

8) What things happened during the siege (20-21)?


Three

1) List some of the things that have happened to the "man who has seen
   affliction (1-12).



2) What is said about the Lord (22-26)?


3) What is said about suffering (27-30)?

4) What else is said about the Lord (31-36)?

5) What attitude should the people have (39-42)?


6) How is the lamentation described in this chapter (48-51)?


7) How does Jeremiah describe his situation (52-56)?


8) How did the Lord respond (57-66)?



Four

1) How have things changed (1-2)?


2) What three pictures are painted of the situation (3-5)?


3) How were the "consecrated ones" before (7)?

   How did this change (8)?

4) What two ways of dying are compared (9)?
   Why is one worse?

5) What had the women done (10)?

6) What unbelievable thing happened (12)?
   Why did it happen (13-14)?

7) How are the pursuers described (18-20)?

8) What was said about Edom (21-22)?


Five

1) What was the first thing that had befallen the people (2)?

2) What was the second thing (3)?

3) What was the third thing (4)?

4) What was the fourth thing (5)?

5) What was the fifth thing (6)?

6) What else had befallen them (8-11)?


7) What had happened to the princes, young men and elders (12-14)?


8) What request was made of God (21)?