Lamentations 1:7 Meaning and Explanation
“Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.”
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Read Full Chapter →In her misery Jerusalem remembers her former blessings, while her enemies watch and mock the holy days she can no longer keep.
What Does Lamentations 1:7 Mean?
Memory in affliction is a double-edged gift. Jerusalem recalls all her pleasant things, the treasures and freedoms of better days, and the remembering sharpens the loss. To know what one had makes the present emptiness ache the more. The poem honors this; grief is often grief precisely because love came first.
Worse still, the enemies mock her sabbaths, jeering at the very worship that had set her apart as God's people. What was once her glory has become the occasion of her shame in their eyes. Yet the act of remembering 'the days of old' will prove, later in the book, to be the seedbed where hope can grow.
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What does Lamentations 1:7 mean?
In her misery Jerusalem remembers her former blessings, while her enemies watch and mock the holy days she can no longer keep.