Lamentations

This year, we want to offer you a fresh way to walk through Advent—by engaging Scripture together. We’ve created four simple plans, each one centered on a different passage that reflects the four themes of Advent: hope, peace, joy, love. Each plan lasts four days, giving you space to linger slowly with God in His Word. You can move through all four plans over the season, or simply choose the ones that meet you where you are right now. Accompanying each plan is a word-for-word Scripture song written by a Verses artist as a melodic anchor.

Advent Meditation: Hope

This five-day plan will walk you through the book of Lamentations by reading a short passage every day. Each day is accompanied by a short video that explains what you're reading and how it's all about Jesus. In this plan, you'll discover the relentless hope found in God’s unending mercy and learn that you can trust in God's faithfulness even through the depths of despair and suffering.

Lamentations: Hope in Suffering | Video Devotional

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage and key verse for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, a prayer and prayer concern to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme “God’s Word of Prayer.”

Daily Bible Reading–March 2021 God's Word of Prayer

Lamentation is a collection of five separate despairing poems written by the Prophet Jeremiah about the destruction of the once proud Jerusalem in 586 BC. Although Jeremiah laments for the desolation, he understands that this is a consequence of the sins of people. But amidst such sorrow and hopelessness, Jeremiah reminds the readers, “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases and his mercies never come to an end.”

Through the Bible: Lamentations

This plan guides young readers through parts of the book of Lamentations in the Bible. New understanding will be revealed through child-friendly devotionals that help children understand how every part of the Bible is meaningful and relevant to their lives.

Bible Explorer for the Young (Lamentations)

This devotion from Book of Lamentations will equip you with biblical truths, and guide you to practice it daily as you continue your walk of faith in Christ.


The Book of Lamentations

In difficult times, do you feel like God is silent? The book of Lamentations offers a language for times when you feel alone in sorrow. Lamentations invites you to pour out your most difficult emotions in prayer and to return to the God who loves you and is working all things together for good. In this five-day series, read through the book of Lamentations and consider God's steadfast love.

Lamentations: When God Is Silent

Jeremiah was an unlikely prophet—young and inexperienced. Yet God chose him to deliver an unpopular message to a rebellious people, warning them of coming devastation and calling them to repent. Despite fierce opposition, Jeremiah lived with integrity and faith. He proclaimed God’s message with compassion and tears, communicating God’s faithful love and sovereign justice and the promise of a future when God would once again restore his people.

Jeremiah: When God Calls You to Hard Things

Most likely written by the prophet Jeremiah, Lamentations is a collection of poems mourning the siege of Jerusalem and the coming exile of Judah. Despite the wickedness of God’s people that led to their captivity, the writer reminds his readers the loyal love and mercy of the Lord are truly new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). Even in deep darkness, God is our portion, our hope, and our salvation.