Emphasis Preaching Journal

How sad a passage! It looks like there is no hope for God's people. Can we ever relate to that? Growing up in our country makes it hard to share the feelings of the writer who is lamenting or crying. Some of our ancestors may have felt like that before coming to this country. I felt some of it among the Seminoles and other Native Americans, whose land was taken from them and some of whom became like slaves. In the 1880s the Seminoles were taken into exile in Florida, then Alabama, and then Oklahoma before being given a small part of the land that had been theirs for centuries.