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Lam 5:1-22 Part 5, He Knows Our Frailty For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust (Psa 103:14)

[Study Aired September 9, 2023]

This final part of the Book of Lamentations rigidly complies with its namesake ~ Lamentations. It finishes on the same afflicted and morbid note for the hopeless results from the works of the flesh. However, the Bride of Christ brightly sees Lamentations’ tedious cheerlessness as her former state that the world’s churches routinely see as ~ lamentations –  only relevant to Old Israel.

The Lord’s people daily endure tedious trials that never seem to abate. Yet, if we could indulge some levity and fun, Walter Brennan’s “Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don’t It” lyrics sound like our former selves and Babylon, only seeing the hopelessness of Lamentations and upon the proven hopelessness of our own strength, moved to do nothing! Quite the opposite of the Shulamite’s vitality. 

I like Brennan’s dry style when he breaks his lyricism by classically snapping back to a dreary reality in the last sentence of most verses. Here is one sample of the ten in the accompanying link.

“My shoes untied but I don’t care
I ain’t a-figurin’ on goin’ nowhere
For I’d have to wash and comb my hair
And that’s just wasted effort.”

https://www.songlyrics.com/walter-brennan/life-gets-tee-jus-don-t-it-lyrics/

Pro 26:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. 
Pro 26:14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. 
Pro 26:15 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 

Brennan’s “Life gets tee-jus, don’t it” parody is juxtaposed against the jarring, impassioned reality of Christ’s last words on the cross and similarly reflects the Saint’s feeling of hopelessness while knowing that the trials are temporary.

Mar 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Phonetic: el-o-ee’ lam-ah’ sab-akh-than-ee’]

Of course, the Lord’s singularly true Church knows He hasn’t forsaken them, and Babylon lives uncertainly.

Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

Since this last chapter of Lamentations theme is consistently weeping and moaning, we will launch right in without restating the entire chapter. In the individual’s private study, understanding and reflecting upon each verse’s wording seems relatively easy with E-sword. A babe in Christ will have almost no difficulty corresponding scriptures and musing spiritually.

Lam 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach [scorn; taunt; shame].

We ask, “What is come upon us?” Ultimately, it is the flesh. The flesh is alienated from the spirit; the two cannot remain “one” without the spirit overwhelming the flesh’s corruption and its reproach. Even so-called clean flesh simply burns up in the presence of God, most dramatically in this present time and experienced by the Bride of Christ. It is our former self, the Great Whore we were, who conspicuously yet unwittingly had her ominous title stamped in invisible ink on her forehead. She most eminently holds the term “reproach” for her uninformed widowhood while claiming to be married to ‘the Christ.’

Jer 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

A harlot’s forehead projects the outward haughtiness of the mind within; the old temple slated for destruction. The forehead identifies the entire ensemble of a harlot by our unconscious seeing her peripheral nuances of conceit in her eyes and facial expressions; hence, the forehead potently identifies her entire persona.

Rev 18:6 Reward her [the whore/harlot within] as she has rewarded you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix double to her. 
Rev 18:7 As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all. 
Rev 18:8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God who judges her is strong.

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog [all humanity alive at that time], to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 
Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them [the beginning of the Eighth Day, the Resurrection to Judgment].
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are [interchangeably the Whore], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever [Aionian – for that brief age; age lasting].

Lam 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 

The Bride of Christ learned that she doesn’t want a physical inheritance; as she walks away without a glance back, she gladly hands over her decaying, lusted vanity of vanities to her libertine sisters in Babylon to indulge.

The Bride must be diligent in not being like brother Esau and her degenerate sisters who, for a flirtation of lust for a season, forgot her Lord’s gift.

Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 
Heb 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

We will likely become bitter for all the Lamentations we endure seemingly endlessly while the Lord apparently doesn’t hear our cries ~ just like Christ on the cross.

Heb 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

A morsel of meat is some heresy or lawless act we hold dear or even a relatively innocuous thing that insidiously controls us.

Heb 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 

Of course, for the Bride of Christ, all sins can be repented, preferably acknowledged quickly. Only trampling underfoot, as did Esau figuratively for the holy spirit, results in a more dramatic repentance in the Resurrection to Judgement.

Lam 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 

Outwardly, Yes! ~ And don’t we know it?! All spouses, parents, brothers, sisters and friends have abandoned us, symbolically coming after us with swords and staves of doctrinal falsehoods. We drank the same water with them, paid tithes and got ‘blessed’ by Satan. Yet, most happily, the Lord’s flock have abandoned them who remain unwittingly as Babylon like unsuspecting widows.

Mar 14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? 
Mar 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
Mar 14:50 And they all forsook him, and fled.

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Lam 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 
Lam 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 
Lam 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 
Lam 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 
Lam 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lam 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

With Artificial Intelligence rapidly approaching, even now in our homes, it will no doubt become more a curse than a blessing, and we will be identified as enemies of the State and its wilderness of filth. As such, ‘buying’ the word of God will become impossible unless we diligently focus on becoming wise virgins with sufficient oil.

Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Lam 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 

Whenever I read the word “black”, I “look upon” the Shulamite, the Bride of Christ, for her immutable blackness of understanding on the part of Solomon, typifying a blind and starved world remaining insensible beneath the dark overcast hiding the Lord’s word.

Lam 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 

Yes, the Babylonian churches are ravished by other women, in lockstep with males missing their privy members and injured in their stones (Deu 23:1), gelded pastors incapable of delivering the seed of truth. Individually, we must be watchful for the woman within attempting to rule over our Husband, Christ.

Lam 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 

Of course, Jesus was the most eminent “prince” hung up by his hands while the eunuchs taught in the congregations.

Isa 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 

2Ki 2:23 And he [Elisha] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 
2Ki 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Lam 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 

That scripture is reminiscent of Sampson grinding and children of Canaanites stuffed into bull idols and baked alive in their metal bellies, not to mention the corresponding children of Israel falling under the ‘wood’ and yoke of Old Covenant doctrines that would, in this life, burn with the hay and stubble.

Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Of course, and for us, causing our children to go through the fire is forcing the Lord’s word upon them or any unbelieving spouse. Its dual interpretation happens when we or Babylon teach false doctrine.

Deu 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 
Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 
Deu 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

The prefix ‘necro’ is close to the humiliating label necrophiliac, a rapist, fetishist, nymphomaniac, killer, and masochist. One of three Hebrew terminologies is H4191 – 1. to die, kill, have one executed, dead [mentioned 132 times] a. (Qal) 1. to die 2. to die (as penalty), be put to death 3. to die, perish (of a nation) 4. to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct. From those expressions, we see by putting our children or any babe through the fire, we kill them by cutting off their ears and blinding them through false doctrine for premature death.

Lam 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 
Lam 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 
Lam 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 
Lam 5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 
Lam 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 
Lam 5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 
Lam 5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 
Lam 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lam 5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

On that ‘happy’ note, the Book of Lamentations finishes, but not for the Lord’s people. Every dire outcome decreed upon our old man we know has a positive and literal everlasting spiritual blessing for the new heavenly Jerusalem within. We remember our Husband’s “song of songs” penned by Solomon and are inflamed by His spirit and He for us.

The Lord’s Elect has utterly rejected her former self by her Husband’s strength. His wrath for her reproach He has turned her mourning into dancing.

Psa 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. 
Psa 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; 
Psa 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

This concludes this short series of the Book of Lamentations.