Lamentations says “Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands to God in heaven.”  (Lam. 3:40-41) These words were written when the people of Judah were in desperate circumstances, which had resulted from their own sin. Lamentations would guide us out of the depths into genuine repentance, in which we do far more than simply go through the “spiritual motions,” but authentically lift our hearts in faith to God.