Man of Sorrows

The weeping prophet Jeremiah is a type of Christ, the Prophet who wept over the same city six centuries later (Matthew 23:37-38).

Like Christ, Jeremiah identified himself personally with the plight of Jerusalem and with human suffering caused by sin.

Lamentations also includes elements that typify Christ’s life and ministry as the man of sorrows who was acquainted with grief, afflicted, despised and derided by His enemies (1:12; 2:15-16; 3:14, 19, 30).