2006-09-01 03:06:37 · 12 answers · asked by tina 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right it is chapter 3:12...sorry again..
2006-09-01 05:14:08 · update #1
Lamentations was written by the prophet jeremiah.....who is called the weeping prophet....a lamentation is a deep abiding sadness.........
the book is addressed to part of the jewish nation that has been asked to change for many centuries......to repent from idolatry and worshipping other religious hideous practices common to the time...such as child sacrifice..........." All day long i have stretched out my hand to you......
Jeremiah's heart is broken at the impending judgement to come as is god's..........some would think God takes pleasure in judgement....that is a misunderstanding of his character........what parent take joy in punishing their child.....yet what loving parent withholds it forever.............the verse refers to the judgement to come......yet as with any scripture READ the entire Context....
2006-09-01 03:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by steve f 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lamentations is a poem written by Jeremiah to mourn the destruction of Israel.
The verse you referred to, is not where you say it is...
In christian terms... It is a prophecy for the life and suffering of Jesus (Israel and all her trials and tribulations, incarnate)
The verse you actually quoted here means to express (being that it is a poem and therefore poetic, in nature) that the people who take her are "drunk" with the spoils of destruction. As in the Palestinians jumping for joy when they took (or were given) Gaza.
Lamentations: From the greek Threnoi. It means dirges or laments. and in Latin Threni (tears or lamentations) "Id est lamentationes Jeremiae prophaetae."
2006-09-01 10:17:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lamentations 3:12...Basically Jeremiah was telling about how he felt with God dismissing his prayers, You say why would God dismiss someones prayers? Part of the price of willful disobedience is that prayer becomes ineffective.
2006-09-01 10:21:18 · answer #3 · answered by dabuttsfly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong verse:
Lamentations 2
12"They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom."
You mean, 3:12.
2006-09-01 10:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by LP S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I'm no bible aficionado, it seems to me that this means that God never "misses the mark". He is accurate, always. We are the target of his will.
Someone like me would interpret this as everything happens for a reason,.
2006-09-01 10:20:41 · answer #5 · answered by Rue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like God put him to the test.
2006-09-01 10:27:58 · answer #6 · answered by Coco 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=31&chapter=3&version=50
2006-09-01 10:15:14 · answer #7 · answered by anamaria112006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wants you dead with a blunt trauma blow to the face
2006-09-01 10:10:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the other dude.. that's not funny. god doesn't like watching you suffer. but truthfully without doing some research i couldn't tell you what he meant.
2006-09-01 10:11:56 · answer #9 · answered by Regina S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He likes to see you shot with arrows???
2006-09-01 10:10:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋