ISSL Reflections April 25, 2021, Lamentations 5 Post 2

You can go to the link before to read Lamentations 5 in the New Revised Version and to find other translations –
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=lamentations+5&version=NRSV

IV.
This passage not only calls upon God to, “Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us …” it asks God to “look” at their condition, and then points out what the condition includes, and how they are forced to live in a world where “The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.”

What is their world like? How are they having to live in that world? What pain do they name in this prayer?

V.
They found the freedom to explicitly express to God their pains and their questions.

Maybe they were familiar with the laments that occur time and time again in the Psalms. Maybe that helped them know how to be brutally honest with God.

What about us?

How honest can we be in our prayers? In our conversations with God?

What would you name in your lament before God?

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est}


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