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PEOPLE - peoples, pagan nations....
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CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE
The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's
desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once
sh...
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LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic
poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats
in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...
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IS. Hebrew. He [is].
PEOPLE. peoples....
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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_I have rebelled against his commandment_ See on Lamentations 1:5. The
Targ. strangely explains the _v_. as having reference to Josiah's
defeat and death at Megiddo (b.c. 608)....
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B. The Appeal to Neighboring Nations Lamentations 1:17-19
TRANSLATION
(17) Zion spreads forth her hands, but there is none to comfort her.
The LORD has given commandment concerning Jacob that his nei...
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1:18 commandment. (e-10) Lit. 'his mouth.'...
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ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW
Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same
theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a
different phase of the subject as intimated...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
ABOUT LAMENTATIONS
We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad
poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...
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THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS... — An echo from Jeremiah 12:1; 2 Chronicles
12:6. Misery does its work, and issues in repentance. The suffering
comes from the all-righteous Judge. It is, perhaps, significant...
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צַדִּ֥יק ה֛וּא יְהוָ֖ה כִּ֣י פִ֣יהוּ
מָרִ֑יתִי...
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ZION'S APPEAL
Lamentations 1:12
IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the
speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers,
then to the larger circle of the s...
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In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And
it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and
Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...
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From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against
them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he
hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my
tra...
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Jerusalem again acknowledges, and more clearly expresses, that she
suffered a just punishment. She had before confessed that her enemies
were cruel through God’s command; but it was necessary to point...
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There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the
heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of
God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...
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THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS,.... Or, "righteous [is] he the Lord" g; in all
these dispensations of his providence, how afflictive and severe
soever they may seem to be; however the enemies of the church and...
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The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:
hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my
young men are gone into captivity.
Ver. 18. _The Lord is righ...
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_The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled_, &c. He does me no wrong
in dealing thus with me, nor can I charge him with any injustice.
Observe, reader, whatever the troubles are which God is pleased...
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The Lord is righteous, just in His treatment of the rebellious city;
FOR I HAVE REBELLED AGAINST HIS COMMANDMENT. HEAR, I PRAY YOU, ALL
PEOPLE, AND BEHOLD MY SORROW, since she feels the need of sympat...
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THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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COMMANDMENT:
_ Heb._ mouth...
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12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that
passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her
outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...
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The prophet either directeth those that feared God what they should
say, or expresseth what many of them did say in the name of the rest,
acknowledging both the Lord's justice and faithfulness, becaus...
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Lamentations 1:18 LORD H3068 righteous H6662 rebelled H4784 (H8804)
commandment H6310 Hear H8085 (H8798) peoples...
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JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER
CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12).
This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which
Jerusalem...
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JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BEHOLD HER PITIABLE STATE
(LAMENTATIONS 1:12).
Lamentations 1:12
(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Behold, and see,
If there be any sorrow like to...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah.
Appeal to God for deliverance.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict
upon...
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This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins
with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the
first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...
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_The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled._
A RIGHT VIEW OF PUNISHMENT
When we see God in our punishments, we begin to take a right view of
them; when they are nothing to us but self-humiliations o...
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_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_
ZION’S APPEAL
1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy.
Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be
passi...
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LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins
with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:18 Jerusalem confesses that God
IS IN THE RIGHT (see Psalms 51:4) for judging her rebellion. but hear
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem.
The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition,
12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 1:1
A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations.
The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the
same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it
appear...
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1 Kings 13:21; 1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Samuel
12:15
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Lamentations 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see
the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...