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Omit “them” and “and,” which weaken the intensity of the
passage....
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CHAPTER 2 WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE
The great catastrophe continues in vivid description throughout this
chapter also. Not an enemy has done it, not Nebuchadrezzar and his
Chaldean hordes, but the Lord i...
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LAMENTATIONS 2. THE SECOND LAMENT. This differs from the first in its
contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same,
_i.e._ there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first word...
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IV. THE PROPHET'S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:20-22
TRANSLATION
(20) Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this! Shall
women eat their offspring, babes who are carried in the ar...
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ZION'S SORROWS DUE TO JEHOVAH'S ANGER
In this second dirge, the cause of Zion's woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah
has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off.
Zion's miseries are the ju...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 2
NOW JEREMIAH SPEAKS.
V1 The *Lord’s anger is like a black cloud over Zion (*Jerusalem).
He allowed enemies to destroy the beauty...
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THE YOUNG AND THE OLD... — The thoughts of the mourner turn from the
massacre in the sanctuary to the slaughter which did its dread work in
every corner of the city....
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שָׁכְב֨וּ לָ † אָ֤רֶץ חוּצֹות֙ נַ֣עַר
וְ...
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THE CALL TO PRAYER
Lamentations 2:18
IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the
concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its
transitions are very abrupt....
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In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow
he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct
action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its materi...
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_Killed. Literally, "stricken" (Haydock) with unusual severity.
(Worthington)_...
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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 i...
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Here he relates in the person of the Church another calamity, that the
young and the aged were lying prostrate in the streets; and he joins
children to the old men, to shew that there was no differenc...
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The second chapter is a very deep and touching appeal. The desolation
of Jerusalem is looked at as Jehovah's own work, on what was His own,
and not as that of the enemy. Never had there been such sorr...
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THE YOUNG AND THE OLD LIE ON THE GROUND IN THE STREETS,.... Young men
and old men, virgins and aged women; these promiscuously lay on the
ground in the public streets, fainting and dying for want of f...
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_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._
Ve...
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_Behold, O Lord, to whom thou hast done this_ To thy people, for whom
thou hast formerly expressed so much tenderness and affection.
Jerusalem seems to be here introduced speaking. _Shall the women ea...
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The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets, being
slaughtered without mercy; MY VIRGINS AND MY YOUNG MEN ARE FALLEN BY
THE SWORD, neither age nor sex being spared. THOU HAST SLAIN THEM IN...
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THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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10-22 Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by
famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and
eaten, according to the threatening, Deuteronomy 28:53. Multitu...
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None of what sex or age soever are spared: though the hands of the
Chaldeans have done this, yet they have been set on and assisted by
thee, and have been but the executioners of thy wrath and displea...
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Lamentations 2:21 Young H5288 old H2205 lie H7901 (H8804) ground H776
streets H2351 virgins H1330 men H970 f
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THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF
JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO
CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18).
The change between Lame...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation on the effect of the calamities of Judah. God's
passionate consideration appealed to.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The wormwood and gall in affliction is the thought t...
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Lamentations 2:1. _How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with
a cloud._ The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope.
Lamentations 2:2. _The Lord hath swallowed up all the inha...
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_The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets._
UNBURIED
1. When God punisheth a people for sin, He spareth neither age nor
sex.
2. It is a sign of God’s anger upon a people, when they wa...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:1 God Has Set Zion under a
Cloud. This chapter emphasizes the completeness of God’s judgment on
Jerusalem. The verses unfold in three parts, each of which has a
dif...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ר) Lamentations 2:20. The prayer is put into words correspondent
with the circumstances. SEE, JEHOVAH, AND BEHOLD TO WHOM THOU HAST
DONE THIS, to the city called thine, to the peop...
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ZION'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD. LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS.
EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 2:1
HATH THE LORD COVERED; rather, _doth _… _cover_. THE DAUGHTER OF
ZION; i.e.
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The second lamentation:
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, and he has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of
Israel, and remembered not his footstool...
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Amos 9:1; Deuteronomy 28:18; Hosea 9:12; Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 24:18;