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2All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of beauty, The ___ of the whole earth. Lamentations 2:15
6The anger of the LORD hath _______ them; he will no more regard them: Lamentations 4:16
7God says Before I formed you in the ____ I knew you; Jeremiah 1:5
8It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not this, because his compassions fail not
10IT is a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
11Unless You have utterly ________ us, And are very angry with us! Lamentations 5:21
13The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you ____ down lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28:43
14He wrote a book with 5 chapters called The ___________ and it is found immediately after the book bearing his name and bewail the fall of a city.
15His prophecies would lead us to conclude that no Jew of those dark days could have experienced keener pangs of grief at the incomparable ____, that is, the deep or inconsolable grief or misery of his nation.
16An elegy is ____ a of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
17This word means (the striking similarities or corresponding in a way) to the current events occurring and existing now in America and in Judah thousands of years ago
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1The _____ of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: Jeremiah 1:1
3See, O LORD, that I am in ________; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death. Lamentations 1:20
4Why do You ______ us forever, And forsake us for so long a time? Lamentations 5:20
5He was the very THIS of patriotic mourning, or in other words, (an extreme example, in human form, of a particular characteristic or type of behavior)
9God says Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the _______ usually of non-Hebrew people Jeremiah 1:5
12His name means Sent By God