About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible:

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

Lamentations 5:1-22 The Joy of Our Heart Has Stopped & Our Dance Has Turned into Mourning

 

The Joy of Our Heart Has Stopped & Our Dance Has Turned into Mourning

Lamentations 5:1-22            The Book of Lamentations [in Smaller Chunks]

O Lord, remember what [has happened to] us. Consider & [see] our [disgrace.] Our inheritance is turned [over to] strangers & our houses to [foreigners.] [Jeremiah 8:9-10 The wise men are ashamed. They are [discouraged & captured.] They have rejected the Word of the Lord & what wisdom is in them? 

Therefore, I will give their wives to others & their fields to [those who] shall inherit them. For everyone of them, from the [powerless] to the [powerful] is given to [greed.] Everyone from the prophet to the priests [distributes falsely.] 

We are orphaned & fatherless. Our mothers are [like] widows. We have [paid] money [for] our water [we've] drunk. Our wood is sold to us. Our necks, [a.k.a. our lives,] are under persecution & we [work] & have no rest. We have given the hand [in a deal] to the Egyptians & Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 

Our [forefathers] have sinned & aren't [alive] & we've [carried] their [sins.] Servants have ruled over us & there [are] none, [who] deliver us out of their hand. [2 Kings 8:12-15 And Hazael said, Why do you weep my lord? And [Elisha] answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children [people] of Israel. 

You will set their strongholds on fire. And you will [kill] their young men with the sword & dash their children & rip up their [pregnant] women. And Hazael said, But what, is your servant, a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord has [shown] me that you shall be king over Syria. 

So, [Hazael] departed from Elisha & came to his master, who [asked] him, What [did] Elisha say to you? And [Hazael] answered, He told me that you should surely recover. And it [happened the next day,] that [Hazael] took a thick cloth & dipped it in water & spread it on [king Ben Hadad's] face, so that he died. And Hazael [ruled] in his [place.]

We [get] our bread [by risking] our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. [Seeking food in the heat of the day,] because of the terrible famine,  our skin was [charred] black like [in] an oven. 

They ravished the women in Zion & the [maidens] in the cities of Judah.

[2 Kings 15:16 Then, Menahem [killed] Tiphsah & all [who] were [there] & [its] coasts [starting] from Tirzah, because they [didn't] open [up] to him. Therefore, he [killed them] & he ripped up all the [pregnant] women.] 

Princes are [hung] up by their [hands] & the faces of elders weren't [respected.] [1 Samuel 31:11-13 And when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard [what] the Philistines had done to Saul; All the valiant men arose & went all night & took the body of Saul & the bodies of his sons from the Wall of BethShan & came to Jabesh & burnt them there. And they took their bones & buried them under a tree [in] Jabesh & fasted 7 days.]

They took young men to grind [in the mill] & the children fell under [the weight of] wood [loads.] The elders [have stopped] from [sitting in] the gate & the young men [have stopped] from their [music.] [Proverbs 31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.]

The joy of our heart [has stopped.] Our dance [has] turned into mourning. [Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning & all your songs into [grieving.] And I will bring sackcloth up upon all [waists] & baldness upon every head. And I will make it [like] mourning [for] an only son & the end [of mourning like] a bitter day.] 

The crown [has] fallen from our head. Woe to us, that we have sinned! [Psalm 89:39 You have made void the covenant [contract] of Your servant. You have [defiled] his crown by casting it to the ground.] 

[Because of] this, our heart is faint. Our eyes are dim, [because of] these things. Because the Mountain of Zion is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. O Lord, You remain forever & Your throne from generation to generation. 

[Revelation 3:20-21 [Watch,] I stand at the door & knock. If any man [hears] My voice & [opens] the door, I will come in to him & will [dine] with him & he with Me. I will grant to him, [who] overcomes to sit with Me [on] My throne, even as I also overcame and Am [sitting] down with My Father [on] His throne.] 

[Why] do You forget us forever & [abandon] us [for such a] long time? [Isaiah 54:7-8 For a small moment, I have [abandoned] you; but with great mercy I will gather you. In a little wrath, I hid My face from you for a moment. But I will have mercy on you with everlasting kindness, says the Lord your Redeemer.] 

You, O Lord, [return] us to You. Renew our days [like those] of old. But you have [totally] rejected us. You are very [angry] against us. [Romans 5:7-8 Scarcely for a righteous man, will [someone] die & [perhaps] for a good man, some would even dare to die. * But God [demonstrates] His love toward us, in that, while we were [still] sinners, Christ died for us.]