How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! ['Al... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. HE HATH POLLUTED THE KINGDOM - by delivering it... [ Continue Reading ]
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. HE HATH CUT OFF ... ALL THE HORN OF ISRAEL. Horns are now worn in the East as an ornament on the forehea... [ Continue Reading ]
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. HE HATH BENT HIS BOW LIKE AN ENEMY - (, "Therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. THE LORD WAS AS AN ENEMY - (Jeremiah 30:14, "I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy"). MOURN... [ Continue Reading ]
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. HIS TABERNACLE - rather,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. THEY HAVE MADE A NOISE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AS IN THE DAY OF A SOLEMN FEAS... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. HE HATH STRETCHED OUT A LINE. The Easterns used a measuring line not me... [ Continue Reading ]
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. HER GATES ARE SUNK INTO THE GROUND. Her gates cannot oppose the entrance of the foe into the city, becaus... [ Continue Reading ]
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. THE ELDERS ... SIT UPON THE GROUND - (Job 2:12). The "elders," by their exam... [ Continue Reading ]
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. MY LIVER IS POURED UPON THE EARTH - i:e., as the liver was thought to be the seat of... [ Continue Reading ]
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. WHEN THEY SWOONED AS THE WOUNDED - famine being as deadly as the sword (). WHEN THEIR SOUL WAS POURED OUT INTO THEIR MOTHERS' B... [ Continue Reading ]
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS FOR THEE? What can I... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. THY PROPHETS HAVE SEEN VAIN AND FOOLISH THINGS FOR THEE. "Thy prophets," not God's (, "They are prophets... [ Continue Reading ]
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? CLAP THEIR HANDS - in derision (; 24:37 ). WAG ... HEAD - (; , "Thou makest us a shaking of the head a... [ Continue Reading ]
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. For the transposition of Hebrew letters (Pe and `Ayin) in the order of verses, see Introduction.... [ Continue Reading ]
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. THEIR HEART CRIED UNTO THE LORD, O WALL OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION - (). The wall is personified. "Their heart" - i:e., the Jews... [ Continue Reading ]
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. CRY OUT IN THE NIGHT - (, "I prevented the dawning of the mor... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? SHALL THE WOMEN EAT THEIR FRUIT - as was threatened (; ; ; ). AND CHILDREN OF A SPAN LONG? - or else, 'chil... [ Continue Reading ]
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. THE YOUNG AND THE OLD LIE ON THE GROUND IN THE STREETS - (, "The Chaldees ... slew their young men with th... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. THOU HAST CALLED AS IN A SOLEMN DAY MY TERRORS - thou hast summoned my enemies against me from all quarte... [ Continue Reading ]