The book of Lamentations has been badly served by the title it carries in our English versions. For it is not a collection of breast-beating self-pitying poems, a mere lamenting of the sorry state of Jerusalem and its inhabitants. It is rather the record of a Hebrew poet’s coping with crisis, a deeply reflected proposal for the handling of grief. Most attribute the authorship to Jeremiah, but here’s the point I want to make today.
There’s anything but lament in two verses! 
Two verses are the best news you could get anywhere, anyhow. Chapter 3 and verse 22 (NLT) says, “The unfailing love of the Lord never ends! By his mercies we have been kept from complete destruction.”
And then verse 31 says, “For the Lord does not abandon anyone forever.”
So, for those who think that God (even the Old Testament God) is out to torture us for trillions of years (can you say forever?) in a place called HELL, these verses should give one not only pause about such thinking, but incredible JOY!
It sure does me- no lamenting here!
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