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But deep in the heart of Lamentations, the seed of something new is
planted, something that speaks of hope and renewal, even in the face
of utter loss. The five songs are all laments that unrelentingly recount
the details of the disaster. But right in the center of the central song,
we find words of hope—an as-yet-unseen faithfulness and an as-yetunknown compassion. No one is abandoned forever, it says, for God
will show his mercy and unfailing love.
We need these hard words of pain and unimaginable suffering in our
Bible—words that we choke on and can barely speak, words that drift
off into silence. This confirms that the Scriptures confront the most difficult realities we know. But we are also offered words of a deeper hope,
an enduring faith by which we ultimately throw ourselves completely on
God himself. In this broken world, we have not yet seen these words
come to their complete fruition, but we are looking for the coming
of something new, something as yet unknown—the restoration of all
things.
