Lamentations 2:13 What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
Commentary made a point in this chapter that really struck me: “For many generations God’s people thought only in terms of the privilege and not of the responsibility” of the titles and positions of Daughter of Zion and Daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 2:14 The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.
I love the privilege of my title of fiercely loved child of God. There are many promises tied up in that title. But I don’t often think of the responsibilities asked of me because of that position, though I think that as I get older I am naturally gravitating to some of the habits—daily time with God, daily communication with God, studying God’s word, shining God’s light, living as an example to God’s people (that one is disconcerting, for sure), loving extravagantly and without reason.
Lamentations 2:15 All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”
Lord, Thank You for the privilege of being Your fiercely loved child. Help me to be mindful of enthusiastically fulfilling the things You have called me to do as Your daughter, all of which draw me closer to You. Keep drawing me closer, Lord. Always. Amen.
Lamentations 2:17 The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.
Have a blessed day.