b.
Another Refrain Or A Call for Yahweh to Look at Their Distress, 1:11b.
C.
The Lament of the City of Jerusalem, (1:12-22). This is the People’s (Zion’s) Description of the Desolate City. This portion is presented as the speech of a personified city (Zion) who describes her judgment as just from Yahweh, laments that there are no comforters, confesses their guilt in misplaced trust, and cries to Yahweh for deliverance, 1:12-22.
1.
A Just Judgment from Yahweh, 1:12-15.
2.
There Are No Comforters, 1:16-17.
3.
A Confession of Misplaced Trust in People and Foreign Alliances, 1:18-19.
4.
A Petition for Yahweh to See Their Distress and Judge Their Enemies, 1:20-22.
II.
The Lord’s Anger Against His People, (2:1-22).
A.
Chapter two is often referred to as the Second dirge or funeral poem.
1.
It is a description of the City’s Desolation from the Vantage Points of Yahweh and the Prophet (Jeremiah).
2.
The Lord describes the desolation of Jerusalem as that which He has actively done against His own.
3.
The prophet confirms that her desolation is due to her sin, but he urges the people to seek the Lord in prayer, and the Lord to look upon the tragic state of His people, 2:1-22.
B.
The Anger of God, (2:1-10). This is the City’s Desolation from Yahweh’s Vantage Point. Like a Master against His possessions and the Covenant God against His covenantal institutions, the Lord has caused the destruction of Jerusalem so that no one knows what to do, 2:1-10.
1.
The Lord against His Possessions: God (Adonai, yn*da , “Lord”) has turned against his own possessions as an owner/enemy, 2:1-5.
2.
The Lord against His Institutions: God (YHWH, hwhy) has turned against His covenantal Institutions and no one knows what to do, 2:6-10.
a.
The Temple and Theocratic Administrators, 2:6.