Lamentations 1 · Grade 4
Is It Nothing to You?
Read and Think
Lamentations is a collection of five poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem. The first four are acrostics, with verses that begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order. Using every letter from first to last may show grief expressed completely, from A to Z.
Chapter 1 pictures Jerusalem as a widow weeping in the night. She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Her people were in exile, her festivals had stopped, and her enemies were proud. Five times the poem says there was no one to comfort her.
In the second half, the city herself speaks. She calls to people passing by to look and see whether any sorrow is like hers. She admits her sin. Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Lamentations teaches that honest grief and honest confession can both be brought to God.
Show What You Know
What city do the poems mourn?
What is an acrostic poem?
What does the poem say five times?
What does the city admit in the second half?
Word Bank Fill-In
Use the word bank to fill in each blank.
- Five times the poem says there was no one to her.
- In the second half, the herself speaks.
- Lamentations teaches that honest grief and honest confession can both be brought to .
Think About It
Why do you think God included sad poems in the Bible?
How can confessing sin and sharing sorrow both bring us closer to God?
Memory Verse
““Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.”
Lamentations 1:18 (WEB)
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Prayer
Dear God, thank You for listening to me. Help me . Amen.
Take It Home
For families: talk about these together.
- Why is it good to be honest with God?
- How can you comfort someone who is sad?
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