Due to a death in my family I will not be able to post this week (October 25 – 29, 2021). I will be away and traveling all week. Lord willing, the site will be fully active next week (November 1 – 6, 2021). The site remains open to you so that you can catchContinue reading “Dearest Readers – October 25, 2021”
Author Archives: David B. Smith
Lamentations 1.7 ~ They Still Do
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction, David said, “It is good for me,” And of her miseries, “That I have been afflicted.” All her pleasant things, “That I might learn thy statutes.” That she had in the days of old, When the Judges led Israel. When her people fell into the hand ofContinue reading “Lamentations 1.7 ~ They Still Do”
Lamentations 1.6 ~ Princes
And from the daughter of Zion, To whom the command came not to stir up the Beloved, Whose help was sought to find the Shulamite’s lover, All her beauty is departed: Her princes; The wise, the just, the meek, Are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone, I sought them butContinue reading “Lamentations 1.6 ~ Princes”
Lamentations 1.5 ~ The Rod
Her adversaries are the chief, They will not, cannot be denied. Her enemies prosper, Building, growing, gaining. For the Lord hath afflicted her, The rod falls hardest on the hardened heart. For the multitude of her transgressions, So many, so vain. Her children are gone, Taken suddenly, like Job’s. Into captivity before the enemy, TheyContinue reading “Lamentations 1.5 ~ The Rod”
