Joel Rosenberg’s Weblog. Desiring God Devotional from John Piper, Christian Bible Devotions. April 21 How To Speak about God When He Hurts Us John Piper The book of Lamentations is the heart-cry of Jeremiah when he and his people were being hurt by God, and by their enemies, and by their own sin. How he speaks of this divine hurting shows us some of the various ways we may speak about God in our own pain.