Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
It is my understanding that each of the five chapters of the lamentations were written as Individual songs or lamentations. The theme of song #2, at least one of them, is tears like a river.
Lamentations 2:11 (KJV)
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
I’m thinking as well of
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
And
Philippians 4:4 (KJV)
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
I don’t believe it is accurate to say the Old Testament is a book of tears and the New Testament is a book of joy. There were times of both rejoicing and tears in the Old Testament economy just as there are times to rejoice and to shed tears in this economy.
It seems to me like these are days for Christians to “let tears run down like a river.” The evil that exists in the world right now calls for believers to awake to righteousness, sin not,[1] and fervently pray without ceasing.[2]
At the same time, we have cause to rejoice. The promise of Christ’s return is as sure today as it has ever been. Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.[3]
· Rejoice
· Look up
But do so with tears like a river for the souls of the lost.
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Lamentations 2:18 (KJV) Tears Like a River
[1] 1 Corinthians 15:34 (KJV)
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
[2] 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV)
Pray without ceasing.
[3] Romans 13:11 (KJV)
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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