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Lamentations for Skeptics

"Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not good and evil?" -- Lamentations 3:38

Well, I can find nothing good in Lamentations but there's plenty of evil.

For example:

• Jerusalem is compared to a naked woman who sighs and turns backward. "Her filthiness is in her skirts." 1:8-9

• The adversary puts his hand upon "all her pleasant things. 1:10

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

• "Jerusalem is as a menstrous woman." (To God this is an insult.) 1:17

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

• God "accomplishes his fury" on the Isralites by starving children to death and forcing their mothers to eat them. 4:4-11