Lamentations Quiz

Answer key for Lamentations Quiz

1. Q1: How doth the city sit solitary, that was once full of what? Answer: People. The book begins by mourning the emptiness of the once-crowded city. Reference: Lamentations 1:1 (KJV).
2. Q2: To what does the writer compare the daughter of Jerusalem in her misery? Answer: A widow. She that was great among the nations is become as a widow. Reference: Lamentations 1:1 (KJV).
3. Q3: The Lord's mercies are new every what? Answer: Morning. Great is His faithfulness; His compassions fail not and are new every morning. Reference: Lamentations 3:23 (KJV).
4. Q4: What did the prophet's eyes fail with because of the destruction? Answer: Tears. Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled. Reference: Lamentations 2:11 (KJV).
5. Q5: It is good for a man that he bear what in his youth? Answer: The yoke. The text encourages bearing the yoke of discipline early in life. Reference: Lamentations 3:27 (KJV).
6. Q6: To what is the skin of the people compared because of the terrible famine? Answer: An oven. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. Reference: Lamentations 5:10 (KJV).
7. Q7: The precious sons of Zion were comparable to what, but are now esteemed as earthen pitchers? Answer: Fine gold. The sons of Zion were comparable to fine gold. Reference: Lamentations 4:2 (KJV).
8. Q8: What has happened to the crown of the people according to the final chapter? Answer: It is fallen from our head. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Reference: Lamentations 5:16 (KJV).
9. Q9: The Lord hath covered the daughter of Zion with what in his anger? Answer: A cloud. How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger. Reference: Lamentations 2:1 (KJV).
10. Q10: What does the writer ask the Lord to renew as of old? Answer: Our days. Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord... renew our days as of old. Reference: Lamentations 5:21 (KJV).