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Until this point, the prophecy foretells a wonderful event, but verse 7 introduces a sobering side of God's work: He creates calamity! He links two contrasting sets of events: light and peace—representing constructive, hopeful, encouraging events—against darkness and calamity—representing destructive, fearful, discouraging circumstances.
THE WORST CALAMITY. It is unthinkable to charge the Almighty as the cause of earth’s calamities, but such evils would be minor in comparison with the thought inherited from the Dark Ages, that God premeditated, planned, from before the foundation of the world, for the everlasting torture of the great majority of mankind.
Jeremiah 19:3 and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
Five poems, combined as the book of Lamentations, give realistic answers to these questions. However, Lamentations is more than a crying complaint against God. It explains the cause of Jerusalem’s fall and thereby give a proper perspective to their calamities.
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Key-repetitions: • Jeremiah: he told Judah to submit to Babylon, but was considered a traitor (Jer 25 - 28); he dictated God’s words but Judah’s king threw the scroll into a fire (Jer 36:4, 21-23); he wore a yoke and told Judah’s king to harness himself to Nebuchadnezzar’s yoke (Jer 27:2-. 11).
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Zedekiah was the last King of Jud ah, in whose reign it collapsed under the onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, on the Ninth Day of Ab in the year 586 BCE. We may gain some better understanding of this disaster if we summarize the cataclysmic events that preceded it.
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God would raise Nebuchadnezzar up not only to conquer Judah, but also against these nations all around. i. When Jeremiah made this prophecy, Babylon had just established itself as the dominant world power by defeating the rival Egyptians at Carchemish.
