Old Testament -> Lamentations
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned ... they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts.”
Lamentations 1:8-9
Lamentations for Skeptics
Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not good and evil?”
Lamentations 3:38
Well, I can find nothing good in Lamentations but there’s plenty of evil.
For example:
• Jerusalem is compared to a naked woman who sighs and turns backward. “Her filthiness is in her skirts.” 1:8-9
• The adversary puts his hand upon “all her pleasant things.” 1:10
• God tramples “as in a winepress” mighty men, young men, and virgins. 1:15-16
• “Jerusalem is as a menstrous woman.” (To God this is an insult.) 1:17
• God mercilessly kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. 2:20-22
• God “accomplishes his fury” on the Isralites by starving children to death and forcing their mothers to eat them. 4:4-11
