But I looked at Lamentations and found a deeply honest Jeremiah.
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his [God's] wrath.
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day...
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces...
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forget prosperity.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord.
Jeremiah was so completely truthful with God how he felt and his perception of God.
After reading those verses, I could not have phrased it better than Jeremiah about some of the emotions I was feeling.
But his next verses revealed some things about God
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord...
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men...
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
And how about those who cause us misery?
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me...
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day...
Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
Enough said.
