Worship With Us Sunday School10 AM Sunday Morning11 AM Sunday Evening4 PM Thursday Night7 PM
1377 S 20th St, Louisville, KY 40210 Contact
True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
My TWBC Plan Your Visit Give
CHAPTER STUDY WORKSPACE

Lamentations 4

Jerusalem’s former beauty is contrasted with the horrors of siege and exile. Children starve, compassionate women become desperate, prophets and priests are condemned for bloodshed, and the chapter closes by announcing Zion’s punishment will end while Edom’s judgment will come.

OVERVIEW

What is happening here?

Jerusalem’s former beauty is contrasted with the horrors of siege and exile. Children starve, compassionate women become desperate, prophets and priests are condemned for bloodshed, and the chapter closes by announcing Zion’s punishment will end while Edom’s judgment will come.

Open full chapter overview →
CHAPTER OUTLINE

Follow the chapter in order.

Verses 1–12Zion’s former glory is contrasted with starvation, cruelty, and the horrors of the siegeVerses 13–20The sins of prophets and priests and the pursuit of the people are rememberedVerses 21–22Edom is warned of judgment while Zion is told that her punishment will come to an end
VERSE STUDIES

Go verse by verse.

Choose a verse without leaving the chapter study path.

1How is the gold become dim! how is the most…2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how…3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give…4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof…5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:…6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of…7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than…8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not…9They that be slain with the sword are better than…10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own…11The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out…12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of…13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of…14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they…15They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart,…16The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will…17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our…18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our…19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:…20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD,…21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest…22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of…