Big Ideas · 9 · Daughter Zion
Hope in something more enduring
Lamentations warns later generations: place your hope not in fleeting kingdoms but in belonging to a people committed to each other and to the God in their midst.
Not heaven, but community.
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The book's very composition shows a community with a lot of life left, still able to record its voices.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 151
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