TSK · Lamentations 3:11

I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.”

I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

“Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.

Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces all of these metals, so it will break in pieces and crush the others.

Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God’s Forgiveness“Come on! Let’s return to the LORD! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

Look, your house is left to you desolate!