Introduction
IV. THE ANGER OF YAHWEH (THE FOURTH LAMENT) CH. 4
The fourth lament is similar to the second one, in that: they both describe God’s judgment of Jerusalem and Judah.
"The lamentation over the terrible calamity that has befallen Jerusalem is distinguished in this poem from the lamentations in chap. i. and ii., not merely by the fact that in it the fate of the several classes of the population is contemplated, but chiefly by the circumstances that the calamity is set forth as a well-merited punishment by God for the grievous sins of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. This consideration forms the chief feature in the whole poem, from the beginning to the end of which there predominates the hope that Zion will not perish, but that the appointed punishment will terminate, and then fall on their now triumphant enemies." [Note: Keil, 2:430-31.]
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