I had never noticed this before! I was reading the book of Lamentations, and I kept smelling the cross of Jesus Christ all over it - seeing parallel after parallel of what Jesus suffered on the cross! Of course! The cross is the Lamentation of all lamentations! And Jesus endured the greatest lamentation on that cross so that we might never lament again for all eternity in the presence of God where there's fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore! He will wipe away every tear someday!
It also confirms that God was angry with Jesus on the cross so that He might never be angry with us in Hell!
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
So I checked to see if anyone has written on this, and sure enough, C. J. Williams has written a book: The Shadow Of Christ In The Book Of Lamentations: A Guide To Grieving With Faith
About this book, Joel Beeke writes:
Especially intriguing is his thesis that we often hear the voice of Christ in Lamentations, revealing the supreme and substitutionary sufferer. This is an excellent resource for preachers, teachers, and students of the Holy Scriptures.
For ultimately, this biblical book must be seen as Christ’s cry from the cross, as he suffers for the sin Lamentations mourns.
See how the book of Lamentations points us to the cross:
* Lam 1:1: has become a slave.
Phil 2:7: made Himself nothing, taking the form of a slave
* Lam 1:3: Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
Heb 13:12: So Jesus also suffered outside the gate
* Lam 1:6: all her majesty is departed
Isa 53:2: He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him
* Lam 1:11: for I am despised
Isa 53: He was despised and rejected by men
* Lam 1:12: Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow
Isa 53:3: a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief
* Lam 1:12: which the LORD inflicted on the day of His fierce anger
Isa 53:4,10: we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Gal 3:13: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"
* Lam 1:14: He caused My strength to fail; the Lord gave Me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.
Ps 22:15: My strength is dried up like a potsherd
* Lam 2:3: He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. [See also Lam 3:53-54 as well for the "cut off" language]
Isa 53:8: He was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Dan 9:26: the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing
* Lam 2:4: He has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
Matt 3:17: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
Rom 8:32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all
Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
* Lam 2:6: in His fierce indignation has spurned king and priest
Rom 8:32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all
* Lam 2:7: The Lord has scorned His altar, disowned His sanctuary
John 2:21: But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
* Lam 2:12: Life is poured out
Ps 22:14: I am poured out like water
Isa 53:12: Because He poured out His soul to death
Matt 26:28: this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
* Lam 2:15: All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads
Ps 22:7: All who see Me mock Me; they make mouths at Me; they wag their heads
Matt 27:39: those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
* Lam 2:21: my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity.
Matt 26:31: For it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered."
* Lam 3:1: I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath
John 19:5: Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!"
Isa 53:4: yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
* Lam 3:2,6: He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light . . . He has made me dwell in darkness
Matt 27:45: Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
* Lam 3:4: He has made my flesh and my skin waste away
Ps 22:17: I can count all my bones - they stare and gloat over me
* Lam 3:8: though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer
Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
* Lam 3:43-44: You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; You have wrapped Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
* Lam 3:45: You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.
2 Cor 5:21: For our sake He made Him to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
* Lam 3:53: They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Matt 27:66: So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
* Lam 3:54: The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
Luke 12:50: I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!
* Lam 4:11: The LORD gave full vent to His wrath; He poured out His hot anger, and He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.
Rom 3:25: Whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood
* Lam 4:20: the LORD's Anointed, was captured in their pits
John 18:12: So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.
* Lam 4:21: to you also the cup shall pass
Matt 26:39: "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."
* Lam 5:7: Our fathers sinned, and are not more; and we bear their iniquities
Isa 53:5: But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities
* Lam 5:12: Princes are hung up by their hands
Gal 3:13: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"
* Lam 5: and boys stagger under loads of wood
Luke 23:26: And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
* Lam 5:20: why do You forsake us for so many days?
Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
* Lam 5:22: and You remain exceedingly angry with us.
Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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