1)Many churches mark this sunday as World Communion Sunday. Look up its history. How would one connect Lamentations to World Communion sunday. Can eucharistic emphases meet with lamentation? Certainly we have many issues to lament in our world of 2013.
2)Some excellent \work has been done on Lamentations by Migliore and Billman, O'Connor, and Breuggemann's fine piece on the loss of lament in contemporary culture. Let me point out also the recent interest in trauma studies.NOTE: I forgot. the issue of Interpretation in April 2013 features this little book with a number of fine pieces.
3)would this be threnody in Greek?
4)Jerusalem is personified as Lady/Dame/daughter Zion. It oculd be a good place to speak about being widowed in 2013. It certainly sounds liek the devastation of natural or human-caused disasters and attacks over time.
5)v. 4 is a poetic marvel to me. Look at Atlantic city or City of ruins by Springsteen
6)v. 5 places the responsibility directly on God. How do you work out god;'s direct, indirect, or mediated work.
7) Now right in the center of the book(3:19-26) has a sense of deep despair, but then hope. When has that happened to a nation, a church, or to you?
8) v. 26 counsels a severe patience, even quietude. Do you respond well to this? How about in circumstances beyond power to change or control?
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