The prophet Jeremiah stared into a landscape of utter devastation. Before the soaring words of hope in Lamentations 3, he cataloged the horror: priests massacred, women raped, people hauled into captivity, and a famine so brutal that its victims resorted to cannibalism. The word “despair” merely hints at his emotions. His world was broken, his people were judged, and his heart was crushed.

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