[spankalib]

I like #34, Bendemann the best. I like that style - I think it's classicist...

My first attempt:

[spankalib]

Oops - that’s his ‘Jeremiah seated in the ruins of J-town’.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Very timely. I just finished Lamentations today in my daily Bible reading.

This whole topic is timely, having completed Jeremiah and Lamentations. The first time I read them, they were very depressing, but after a couple of re-reads, I was impressed with God’s forbearance and the dozens of chances He gave the King and the priests and the people to repent. No go. So like the Israelite who died in the desert, they went to Babylon and their children or grandchildren came back and rebuilt.

Then God Himself came to the rebuilt Jerusalem and Temple. We know how that turned out—salvation for all mankind.