00:00number 34 use of the literary Arts we're
00:04going to read Lamentations 1 1.
00:06Jerusalem one so full of people is now
00:08deserted she was once great among the
00:11Nations now sits alone like a widow once
00:13the queen of all the Earth she is now a
00:17now prophetic literature as a whole is
00:20always more elaborate takes a little
00:22more Artistry a little more skill than
00:25normal prose that's true in most
00:28languages it's certainly true in Hebrew
00:31now the Hebrew poetry is not like
00:33English it's not about Rhythm and rhyme
00:36poetry is about parallelism having two
00:39ideas match each other using different
00:42words synonymous phrases to add enriched
00:45meanings this is so wise of God to
00:47choose a people who spoke Hebrew and
00:51their literary form of poetry because
00:53it's very easy to translate without
00:56losing the sense of the Poetry you can't
00:59do that from English into other
01:01languages but it does work from Hebrew
01:03so this poetry requires a literary
01:06Excellence you don't just it's not just
01:08a flow of Consciousness you think and
01:10then you say how can I make that better
01:12how can I enrich that and yet another
01:14statement and how you build on that and
01:16it's a conceptual Artistry that is
01:18exquisite in most of our Bibles in
01:22are able to see that because the way the
01:24text is laid out is different instead of
01:27being in paragraphs they're in in
01:30stanzas and this helps us see there's
01:34something special this literature is
01:36more refined more artistic
01:40so Jeremiah like the other prophets was
01:43not only a great artist and used poetry
01:46in his proclamations
01:49but we also know that he was according
01:51to the second chronicles 35 25 the
01:54author of Lamentations and he did
01:57something more than just do poetry
01:59Lamentations is a quadruple acrostic
02:03well what does that mean an acrostic is
02:09where every line begins with a different
02:12letter of the alphabet
02:14in Hebrew the 22 letters and so chapter
02:171 chapter 2 and chapter four each have
02:1922 verses each verse begins like their
02:23equivalent of a b c d is alphabet
02:26gimldaleth the Hebrew 22 letters and so
02:29it makes it really easy for people to
02:31memorize or remember because each point
02:33begins with a different letter
02:38verses because there are three A's Three
02:41B's three C's three d's all the way down
02:46that takes a lot of creativity and
02:48thoughtfulness to write something like
02:50that in the best of circumstances but
02:52when he wrote Lamentations it was the
02:55worst of circumstances it was time of
02:58great National tragedy the most horrific
03:01destruction the Weeping and the sorrow
03:04the death of emotion was so intense and
03:08yet he was able to maintain the
03:11discipline of our artists and channel
03:14the extreme emotions that he had the
03:18unimaginable pain in to this
03:21extraordinary literary discipline and
03:23keep it ordered by these letters you can
03:26see the self-control of the spirit of
03:28God in the midst of the human anguish
03:31what an amazing Artistry what great
03:34skill this is only achieved through
03:36years and years of honing this ability
