Memory & Hope at the Center

Lamentations 3
Memory and Hope at the Center
Sermon Outline for March 11, 2012, the Third Sunday in Lent, by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Intro – Lam. 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion All her splendor has departed
The Fading Beauty of the Poetry of the Book of Lamentations (Dr. Kai Soltau, Robert Jones)
A. Acrostic - Knox Translation, Holman Bible - Fades Away in Chapter 5
B. Chiasm - Fades Away in Chapters 4 and 5
C. Concatenation (Chains) - Fades Away in Chapter 3
D.. 3-2 Chapters - Fading Away
Another Beautiful Alphabetic Structure
3 Speakers, 22 Sections, with Centers Between Exact Word Counts
Chapter One

1. the LORD has afflicted her because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity
2. my affliction
3. those whom You commanded not to enter
4. He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back;
5. the Lord trampled as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
6. because the comforter, who should restore my life, is far from me.
7. the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob
8. for I have been very rebellious
   Chapter Two
   9. mourning and lamentation
   10. Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth'?”
   11. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword;
   Chapter Three
   12. And I said, “My strength and my hope Have perished
   13. Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, when the Lord has not commanded it?
   14. You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
   15. You drew near on the day I called on You,

Chapter 1 to Chapter 2 to Chapter 3 - The Big Picture
1:1 How lonely sits the city
2:1 How the Lord has covered the daughter