The book of Lamentations was written by a person lamenting that the people are not around the temple anymore.
And the writer of Lamentations is lamenting that they're not around the temple anymore, lamenting that they're not in Jerusalem anymore.
— Episode: Introduction to the Exile (with Jeff Cav...
Episode: Introduction to the Exile (with Jeff Cavins) (2024...
The book of Lamentations was written by a person lamenting that the people are not around the temple anymore.
And the writer of Lamentations is lamenting that they're not around the temple anymore, lamenting that they're not in Jerusalem anymore.
Episode: Introduction to the Exile (with Jeff Cavins) - 202...
The book of Lamentations was mentioned as lamenting the people's distance from the temple in Jerusalem during the exile period.
But here's the sad thing. Some of the people in exile kind of liked it.
Episode: Day 238: Fall of Jerusalem (2022)
It was mentioned as an upcoming reading in the podcast, written by Jeremiah, it is described as a book where he laments the suffering of the people of Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege.
In fact, we're going to get to Lamentations relatively soon. It's going to be a couple of weeks away, but Lamentations is also from Jeremiah and it's when Jeremiah walks around the city of Jerusalem during the siege by the Babylonians.