All Her Splendor Has Departed

Lamentations 1
All Her Splendor Has Departed
Sermon Outline for February 26, 2012, the First Sunday in Lent, by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Intro –The Church Calendar, Pancakes, Ashes, 46 Days, and Lent
6And from the daughter of Zion All her splendor has departed

I. Lamentations - Lamenting the Lamentable (Including Chapter 3)
II. The Beautiful Poetry of the Book of Lamentations (Dr. Kai Soltau, Robert Jones)
A. Acrostic - Knox Translation, Holman Bible
B. Chiasm
C. Concatenation (Chains)
D. 3 Speakers, 22 Sections, with Centers
Chapter 1

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
   III. All Her Splendor (Beauty) Has Departed (The Revenge of the Vapor)
   IV. Hopelessness and Hope
   Conclusion: Forgetting the Lamentable