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Injustice in Lamentations

  1. God tramples "as in a winepress" mighty men, young men, and virgins. 1:15-16

  2. "The Lord Was an enemy." 2:4-8

  3. God mercilessly kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. 2:20-22

  4. God is like a bear or a lion who secretly pursues you and then tears you apart. 3:10-11

  5. "Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not good and evil?" Mostly evil, I'd say -- at least if you believe the Bible. 3:38

  6. "Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger." 3:63-64

  7. God punishes the Israelites by starving their children to death. 4:4-9

  8. God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. 4:10-11

  9. God punished the Israelites for the sins of their fathers. 5:9