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Guiding Questions: Lamentations 4

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This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

How does Lamentations 4 more closely resemble Lamentations 1-2 than Lamentations 3?
For what does the gold in Lamentations 4:1 serve as a metaphor?
Is it fair to compare the people in besieged Jerusalem to jackals and ostriches?
Is it fair to compare the guilt of the people to the iniquity of Sodom? See Genesis 19.
In Lamentations 4:7, nezireha is translated “her elect”. What is a nazir (Nazirite) and why, therefore, may this translation be inaccurate? See Numbers 6.
How is this chapter (particularly Lamentations 4:8-11) reminiscent of Deuteronomy 28?
Why are the prophets and priests blamed for the calamity (Lamentations 4:13)? What is the irony of the exclamations in Lamentations 4:15?
What is the significance of the imprecation against Edom? What does Edom represent historically for Israel?

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Post categories: Eicha (Lamentations), Ketuvim (Writings), Tanakh, Tanakh Yomi

Post tags: Lamentations 4, Perek Yomi (USCJ)

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