Lamentations 1:8

Has the Church, the Body of Christ,  been defiled.....and are we the cause? We water down the Gospels to suit the lifestyles of our society and in the process we appear as hypocrites. Making the success of a few more important than the good of the whole ends up dismissing 97% of the people in the world. When did money become our god and filling up buildings our goal? We need to get back to the basics of Christ-ianity and make Him and His teachings our center. We need to remember that God sent Jesus to save us from ourselves.....He preached a message of God’s agape love for man and gave us the opportunity to return that love to Him by loving others as much as we do ourselves.

It was an extreme humiliation for a woman to be stripped of all her clothing in public. Such exposure was reserved for prostitutes, which Judah had become in a spiritual sense. In Lamentations, Jeremiah weeps over the sins of the people, the sins that would eventually result in the destruction of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:8

⁸ Jerusalem has sinned gravely, 
Therefore she has become vile. 
All who honored her despise her 
Because they have seen her nakedness; 
Yes, she sighs and turns away.