Day 1 - Lord's Day - Sunday - International KJV Sunday school Lesson - Logos

 April 25

Lesson 8 (KJV)

The Nation’s Plea

Devotional Reading: Lamentations 3:22–33

Background Scripture: Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor and have no rest.

6 We have given a hand to the Egyptians and the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: none doth deliver us out of their hand.

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17 For this, our heart is faint; for these things, our eyes are dim.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O Lord, remainest forever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

 Key Verse

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.—Lamentations 5:21

Prophets Faithful to God’s Covenant

Unit 2: Prophets of Restoration

Lessons 5–8

Lesson Aims

After participating in this lesson, each learner will be able to:

1. Describe the historical context of the book of Lamentations.

2. Summarize the reasons for the people’s mourning.

3. Lament having sinned against God.

Lesson Outline

Introduction

A. In Memory Of

B. Lesson Context

I. Confrontation (Lamentations 5:1–15)

A. Remember! (v. 1)

B. Results of “Their” Sins (vv. 2–14)

C. Reversal (v. 15)

Words for Mourning

II. Confession (Lamentations 5:16–22)

A. Of “Our” Sins (vv. 16–18)

B. Of the Lord’s Reign (v. 19)

C. Of Hope and Fear (vv. 20–22)

Has God Forgotten You?

Conclusion

A. Called to Lament

B. Prayer

C. Thought to Remember

HOW TO SAY IT

Assyria	Uh-sear-ee-uh.
Babylon	Bab-uh-lun.
Jebusites	Jeb-yuh-sites.
Judah	Joo-duh.
Nebuchadnezzar	Neb-yuh-kud-nez-er.
Zedekiah	Zed-uh-kye-uh.
Zion	Zi-un.