A
SEQUEL TO THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
THEME,
a series of dirges in the form of an acrostic, written as if for a National
Funeral, portraying the capture and destruction of Jerusalem. In the Septuagint
Version the following introductory words are found, "And it came to pass
after Israel was led into captivity that Jeremiah sat weeping and lamenting and
lamented this lamentation over Jerusalem."
In the Hebrew
Scriptures chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5 have each twenty-two verses, and each verse
begins with one the of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order In
chapter three the first three verses begin with aleph, the second three with
beth, and so on throughout. The fifth chapter has twenty-two verses, but no
acrostic.
SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK
(1) The ruin
of Jerusalem and misery of the exiles, because of their sins, ch. 1
La
1:1
(2) Jehovah,
the ancient defender of Israel, has given up his people to their awful fate, ch.
2
La
2:1
(3) Jeremiah's
grief over the afflictions of his people,-his trust God, and his own
persecution, ch. 3
La
3:1
(4)
The former glory of Israel contrasted with their present misery, ch. 4
La 4:1
(5) A prayer
for mercy, ch. 5
La
5:1
KEY VERSE
La
1:12
(Outline from Thompson’s Chain Reference
Bible)