Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We - TopicsExpress

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Lamentations 5: 2-7 (A high calling flouted by low living results in deep suffering. Lamentations gives us a portrait of the bitter suffering the people of Jerusalem experienced when sin caught up with them and God turned away from them. Every material goal they had lived for collapsed. But although God turned away from them because of their sin, he did not abandon them--that was their great hope. Despite their sinful past, God would restore them if they returned to him. There is no hope except in the Lord. Thus our grief should turn us toward him, not away from him.)