Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+003   Lamentations 3 (ESV) 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+002   Lamentations 2 (ESV) 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+001   LAMENTATIONS   INTRODUCTION When the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and deported much of its population, some residents were left behind in terrible conditions in and around the shattered city. To express their deep shame and grief over the destruction of their home, they wrote songs about its desolation and about […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+052   Jeremiah 52 (ESV) 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+051   Jeremiah 51 (ESV) 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these […]