How does Lamentations 1:12 connect to Christ's suffering on the cross? The cry of Lamentations 1:12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD has brought upon me in the day of His fierce anger.” Echoes at Golgotha • “All you who pass by” mirrors the scene at the cross: “Those who passed by heaped abuse on Him” (Matthew 27:39). • Both settings feature onlookers who respond with indifference or mockery to profound suffering. • The plea “Look and see” is fulfilled when the crowd gazes on the crucified Christ (John 19:37; Zechariah 12:10). The unmatched sorrow • Lamentations speaks of a pain unlike any other; Christ’s agony is unequaled because He “bore our sins in His body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). • Psalm 22:6–8 foreshadows the same ridicule and isolation. • Only Christ could cry, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46), expressing a depth of separation none else has known. Divine wrath borne by a Substitute • “Which the LORD has brought upon me” points to God’s involvement in the suffering. Isaiah 53:10: “Yet it pleased the LORD to crush Him.” • Acts 2:23 affirms Jesus was “delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge.” • On the cross He absorbed “the day of His fierce anger,” satisfying divine justice (Romans 3:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Invitation to behold and believe • Lamentations issues a call: “Is it nothing to you?” The Gospel responds with the imperative to “Behold, the Lamb of God” (John 1:29). • Recognition leads to worship, gratitude, and repentance, for the One whose sorrow secured our salvation. |
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