Today: [Lamentations 4] The Languishing of the City of Jerusalem. In this chapter Jeremiah describes starving mothers eating their young to stay alive in the siege of Jerusalem. The leaders during the siege were seen covered in blood because the people are so starved they have resorted to the unthinkable. There is a lesson for us today in the suffering of the people during the Babylonian invasion. We tend to neglect the younger generations to their own hurt when the pressures of life are great upon us. To that end Jeremiah laments the state of affairs in Jerusalem, that has application for us today when facing the modern day spirit of Babylon in our midst.