1. The words of the lamentation. a. Interpreters have shamefully perverted these words 41. b. The Jewish interpretation, which Jerome follows 42. c. The Jews' interpretation refuted 42-43. d. The interpretation of Rabbi Solomon 44. e. The interpretation of others, especially of Origen 45. * Why Augustine was especially pleased with the doctrine of the Manicheans 45. f. Rabbi David's explanation 46. * The false idea of the Jews and some Christian interpreters that the true sense of Scripture is learned from grammar. (1) Thus ideas most foreign to the sense of Scripture are defended 46-47. (2) This method is false and led the Jews into many fantasies 47. g. The source of Rabbi David's awkward interpretation of these words 48. * Why Luther has so much to say about the false interpretation of Scripture 49. * What is necessary to interpret Scripture 50. h. The true sense of these words 51. * Scripture definition of "to judge" 51. 2. The author of this judgment and lamentation 51-53. * Man's conduct upon hearing God's Word preached 54. 3. From what kind of a heart does such judgment and lamentation spring 55. * What kind of grief is the grief of the Holy Spirit 56. * God's severest punishment 57-59. * What follows when man does not possess God's Word 57-58. * Why the heathen are so carnal 58. 4. The nature of this judgment and lamentation 59. * The lamentation and judgment of Luther over Germany because it lightly esteemed God's Word 60. * The spirit of grace and of prayer 61. * The office of the ministry. a. It requires two things 62. b. It is the greatest blessing of God 63. c. To despise it is a great sin, and what follows when it is taken from a people 63. d. A complaint of its neglect 64. e. This office is explained by the expression "to judge" 65. * Every godly preacher is one who disputes and judges 65. * Luther's grief because of the stubbornness of the world 66. * Why Ahab called Elijah a troubler of Israel 67. * Why the world resents being reproved by sound doctrine. It is a good sign if a minister is reviled by the world 68. * The glory of people who boast of being the Church. a. Such glory avails nothing before God 68-70. b. Papists wish by all means to have this glory 68-70. c. Papists need this glory to suppress the Protestants 71. d. Christ will decide at the judgment day to whom this glory belongs 71.