August 30

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2437S0830.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1056 Download Link --> <p>Lamentations 1-2 We are in the Prophetic Stream reading from the New International Readers Version. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Lord, remind us that you are very near to the brokenhearted. May we also be of your heart and be people who comfort the disturbed and the suffering.  Amen</blockquote> <div>This really is the epilogue or a continuation of the Book of Jeremiah (who wrote Lamentations). Jeremiah could not have been more heartbroken as he sat in the ashes of his beloved city that had had its fingers in its ears; refusing to listen to God for centuries. He wrote Lamentations after the dust had cleared and its residents had been led away in shackles to exile in Babylon. The 70 A.D. translation of the Bible actually adds an introduction to Lamentations that reads, "And it came to pass, after Israel was led into captivity and Jerusalem was laid waste, that Jeremiah sat weeping and lamented this lamentation over Jerusalem and said": ... (and chptr. 1 commences)</div> <div>1 - This starts the doleful ballad - the city is empty.  The distant crying of just a few poor people left in Jerusalem is all that is heard. Virtually "everyone" living is gone. The siege has been horrible, the place is in ruins, still smoking from being burnt, it is desolate.  And Jeremiah is not wailing "whyyyy God, whyyy?" --- because he knows why.  Jeremiah had tried his entire adult life to turn Jerusalem from her rampant sinning,  and to no avail.  He knew this judgment; this dismal situation would be coming, but it didn't make its arrival any easier to bear.  He is stunned, dazed, the "chest pain" (as we might call it) was gnawing at him desperately. There was no consoling Jeremi