Because God Has Heard...

 Lamentations 3:55 “I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit; 
56 you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’
57 You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’
58 “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
61 “You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

64 “You will repay them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be upon them.

66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them

    from under your heavens, O Lord.”

We looked yesterday at the promise God gave through Jeremiah that He would hear the people when they finally came to repentance and claimed Him as "the Lord, Our God."  Here we find Jeremiah's lament after giving his whole series of calls to repent, finding Jerusalem leveled, most of his peers dead or taken away, leaving him to look upon all the devastation.  Even in that hour he could say: you heard my plea and came to my rescue. He could also leave vengeance in God's hands. He had done all he could to call them to repentance, but they resisted him on every side.  Jeremiah refused to fall into bitterness, allowing God to do what needed to be done both in his next step and those who had mocked him.