{"id":7579,"date":"2025-08-01T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:05:29","slug":"lamentations-program-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=7579","title":{"rendered":"Lamentations (Program #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" \/>Lamentations (Program #1) &#8211; Introduction<\/p>\n<p>No two books of the Bible are probably more linked than the Old Testament books of Jeremiah and Lamentations.\u00a0 Jeremiah, a book of God&#8217;s judgment and punishment upon His rebellious people Israel is followed by the prophet Jeremiah&#8217;s lamentations over the sufferings of Israel.\u00a0 Listen to his word in the first of these lamentations, chapter 1:1-2 &#8220;<em>How the city sits alone That was full of people! She who was once great  among the nations Has become like a widow; She who was a princess among  the provinces Has become tributary.\u00a0 Bitterly she weeps in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks. There  is no one to comfort her Among all her lovers; All her friends have  dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 This was Jeremiah&#8217;s speaking of the utter destruction and devastation that had been visited upon the city by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.\u00a0 And the suffering of Jeremiah reflects that of all of God&#8217;s people, especially no doubt the few righteous among them.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Lamentations (Program #1)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-08-01T06:05:29-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Lamentations (Program #1) - Introduction\r\n\r\nNo two books of the Bible are probably more linked than the Old Testament books of Jeremiah and Lamentations.\u00a0 Jeremiah, a book of God's judgment and punishment upon His rebellious people Israel is followed...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Lamentations\/Lam_26.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"15.2\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5447\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Lamentations\/Lam_26.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5447','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Lamentations\/Lam_26.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Lamentations\/Lam_26.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=7579-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Lamentations\/Lam_26.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Lam_26.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamentations (Program #1) &#8211; Introduction No two books of the Bible are probably more linked than the Old Testament books of Jeremiah and Lamentations.\u00a0 Jeremiah, a book of God&#8217;s judgment and punishment upon His rebellious people Israel is followed by the prophet Jeremiah&#8217;s lamentations over the sufferings of Israel.\u00a0 Listen to his word in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5563,3],"tags":[6045,27,25,26,3608,4703,29,780,304,4884,7840,2742,421,7806,2376,2428,3251,666,692,6044,6043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}