From Medium: How Lamentations Points Us Further to Christ

Lamentations contains powerful pointers to Jesus ChristIn my previous post, I discussed ways that Lamentations 3 can be used as a lens through which we can view Easter. I attempted to draw out how Lamentations 3 pictures Jerusalem as a personified man who appears to be the sole recipient of the wrath of God. “The man” of Lamentations 3 experiences intense suffering and hopelessness, followed by a change in his experience of God. The man moves into a state of hopefulness and renewed vigor as God changes His disposition from the man’s enemy to the man’s advocate.Lamentations 3:53–54 described the man’s experience in a pit, having been cast into...