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| Order is gone. |
Though Lamentation chapter 5 has 22 verses, the acrostic pattern is lost here. It is like the grief of the writer is so great that lack of order has descended on him as well as grief. This has been at times the heart cry of those who have struggled with grief.
Since the writer hasn't seen God's deliverance the final cry in the last verse is one of desperation and resignation; Restore us, unless you have given up on us. This book ends as several books in the Bible do without a clear ending or at least a settled ending. Yet this is how it is in life, there aren't always clear straightforward endings. Sometimes, we "see through a glass darkly" as Paul says in1 Corinthians 13. This side of eternity that is the best it gets. However for the Christian, we know that life doesn't end with death and the story for us doesn't end on a bad note, because life is just the beginning.
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