1

• Jerusalem personified as a widow

  • She sits all alone and abandoned (1)

  • Zion’s great sins (8, 9)

  • Zion rejected by God (12-15)

  • No one to comfort Zion (17)

2

• Jehovah’s anger against Jerusalem

  • No compassion shown (2)

  • Jehovah like an enemy to her (5)

  • Tears over Zion (11-13)

  • Passersby scorn the once beautiful city (15)

  • Enemies rejoice over Zion’s downfall (17)

3

• Jeremiah expresses his feelings and hope

  • “I will show a waiting attitude” (21)

  • God’s mercies new every morning (22, 23)

  • God is good to those hoping in him (25)

  • Good for youths to carry the yoke (27)

  • God blocked approach to himself by a cloud (43, 44)

4

• Terrible effects of Jerusalem’s siege

  • Lack of food (4, 5, 9)

  • Women boil their own children (10)

  • Jehovah has poured out his anger (11)

5

• People’s prayer for restoration

  • ‘Remember what has befallen us’ (1)

  • ‘Woe to us; we have sinned’ (16)

  • ‘Bring us back, O Jehovah’ (21)

  • “Renew our days” (21)