Lament and Anger

Dancing in the Kingdom- Table of Contents

Dancing In the Kingdom – Part 1 – Shadows of the Kingdom – Chapter 9 – The Prophets and writings

Lament and Anger

[Bible references: Isaiah 1:2-20; 10:5-11; 13:1-22; 15:1-16:22; Isaiah 10:5-11; 66:24; Micah 5:10-15; Hosea 11:1-9; Luke 19:41-44]

God’s response to Israel’s unfaithfulness through the prophets was to lament. His lamenting included calls for Israel to repent and turn back to Him and was usually followed by anger and a promise to root out, pull down and destroy Israel or any other nation around Israel that was involved in sin.[1] Sometimes God used other nations to discipline Israel but that was usually followed with threats to those same nations for their own behavior.[2]

[1] Ex: Prophecy against Assyria (Isaiah 10:5-11), Babylon (Isaiah 13,), Moab (Isaiah 15-16) and others

[2] Enter the Bible, “Isaiah 1:29 – God’s Lament” Enter the Bible enterthebible.org/passage/isaiah-12-9-gods-lament; Banbury, Rosalind. “God Laments” Presbyterian Outlook pres-outlook.org/2021/03/horizons-8-god-laments/

Reflect

How does knowing God’s attitude towards sin affect our attitudes?

Observe

Read Hosea 11:1-9. What hope is expressed in the lament?

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I have been teaching the Bible to children and adults for over twenty years. I have also been involved in various church leadership roles for many of those years. I've written an anthology of my first 40 years of writing poetry in my book, Growing.

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