UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 25 OF 39
Lamentations
Eichah — “How!”
MAJOR PROPHETS
- Author / Era
- Jeremiah (traditional) · approx. 586 BC, just after the fall of Jerusalem
- Setting
- Smoke still rising over a destroyed city. The temple gone. The people exiled.
- Key Figures
- The prophet, Lady Jerusalem (personified), the LORD
- Watch For
- Right at the center, in the dead middle of the grief, the hinge: “They are new every morning” (3:22–23).
- Connects To
- Romans 5:3–5 · 2 Corinthians 4:8–9 · Revelation 21:4
Key Verse
“It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”— Lamentations 3:22–23
Points to Christ: The Man of Sorrows
Christ wept over Jerusalem, too. The prophet’s tears prefigure His.
For the Fire Pit
In the middle of the worst chapter of the Bible, you find the line we sing on Sunday morning. Mercy does not wait for the rubble to cool. It rises with the sun.
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