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Verse 20. _ABROAD THE SWORD BEREAVETH_] WAR is through the _country;
and at home death_; the pestilence and famine rage in the city;
calamity in every shape is fallen upon me.
_Virgil_ represents the...
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TROUBLED - Or, inflamed with sorrow.
TURNED WITHIN ME - Agitated violently.
AT HOME THERE IS AS DEATH - i. e. “in the house” there are pale
pining forms, wasting with hunger, and presenting the appe...
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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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BEHOLD. Here begins the prayer.
ABROAD THE SWORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:25)....
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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With description of her distress Zion combines prayer, appealing to
Jehovah for redress.
_my bowels_ See on Jeremiah 31:20.
_are troubled_ lit. _are in a ferment_.
_is turned_ cannot rest, is viole...
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ABROAD THE SWORD, &C.— _Without, the sword bereaveth; within, the
mortality._ Virgil has an expression remarkably similar to this:
_Crudelis ubique Luctus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis imago._ AEN...
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C. The Appeal to God Lamentations 1:20-22
TRANSLATION
(20) Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my inward parts are
troubled, my heart is turned within me because I have grievously
rebelled. In the...
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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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BEHOLD, O LORD... — Deserted by men, the mourner appeals to Jehovah.
“Bowels” and “heart” are used almost as synonymous for the
deepest emotions of the soul. The word for “troubled,” elsewhere
(Psalms...
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רְאֵ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה כִּֽי ־צַר ־לִי֙
מֵעַ֣י חֳמַרְ
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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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_Alike, by famine, &c. (Calmet) (Worthington) --- Ubique pavor et
plurima mortis imago. (Virgil, \'c6neid ii.)_...
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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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The people turn again to pray God: and what has been before said ought
to be remembered, that these lamentations of Jeremiah differ from the
complaints of the ungodly; because the faithful first ackno...
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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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BEHOLD, O LORD, FOR I [AM] IN DISTRESS,.... Thus she turns from one to
another; sometimes she addresses strangers, people that pass by;
sometimes she calls to her lovers; and at other times to God, wh...
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Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine
heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the
sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.
Ver. 20. _Beho...
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_Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress_ Take cognizance of my case, and
use such means for my relief as thou pleasest. It is a matter of
comfort to us, that the troubles which oppress our spirits are
p...
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Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, she implored Him to observe how
badly she fared. MY BOWELS ARE TROUBLED, being violently excited with
excessive grief; MINE HEART IS TURNED WITHIN ME, FOR I HAVE...
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THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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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 petition is of the same nature as before, a petition for mercy, as
the product of that pity and compassion which extreme misery begets in
good souls, (and is ascribed unto God, though found in him...
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Lamentations 1:20 See H7200 (H8798) LORD H3068 distress H6887 (H8804)
soul H4578 troubled H2560 (H8777) he
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RECOGNISING THE DEPTHS OF HER OWN SIN JERUSALEM CALLS ON YHWH TO DO
THE SAME TO HER ENEMIES WHO ARE GLOATING OVER HER AS HE HAS DONE TO
HER, FOR THEY ARE EQUALLY SINFUL. AND SHE CALLS ON HIM TO AVENGE...
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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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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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_I called for my lovers, but they deceived me._
DECEITFUL HELPERS
1. It is an increase of sorrow to be disappointed of their help by
whom we looked to be delivered out of our troubles.
2. God often...
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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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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 8:47; Deuteronomy 32:25; Ezekiel 7:15; Habakkuk 3:16; Hos
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Death — By famine and pestilence....