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Verse 7. _THEY HAVE MADE A NOISE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD_] Instead of
the silver trumpets of the sanctuary, nothing but the sounds of
warlike instruments are to be heard....
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SANCTUARY - The holy of holies; “the walls of her palaces” are
those of the sacred buildings....
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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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_her palaces_ As this word is nowhere else applied to the Temple, it
seems best (though parallelism of clauses suggests otherwise) to give
the expression its natural sense, as in Lamentations 2:5. Alt...
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THEY HAVE MADE A NOISE, &C.— "The Chaldeans have sent forth the
sounds of joy on account of their victory, in the temple of the Lord,
as the Jews were accustomed to do in their solemn festivals." Inst...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
A BROKEN PEOPLE
Lamentations 2:1-22
In content, form and theology chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter
1. Like chapter 1, the second chapter is also a national lament but
the...
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2:7 feast. (b-45) Or 'solemn assembly.' The same word appears in the
original for 'assembly,' ch. 1.15 and here, and set feast. Numbers
10:10 ....
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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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HATH CAST OFF... HATH ABHORRED. — The two verbs are used in a like
context in Psalms 89:38.
HIS SANCTUARY. — The word points to the Holy of Holies, and “the
walls of her palaces” are therefore those...
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זָנַ֨ח אֲדֹנָ֤י ׀ מִזְבְּחֹו֙ נִאֵ֣ר
מִקְדָּשֹׁ֔ו הִסְגִּיר֙...
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GOD AS AN ENEMY
Lamentations 2:1
THE elegist, as we have seen, attributes the troubles of the Jews to
the will and. action of God. In the second poem he even ventures
further, and with daring logic p...
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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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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 (g) noise in the house of the LORD, as in the d...
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_Cursed, or suffered it to be polluted, (Worthington) as he looked on
it with horror, after it had been profaned by Achaz, &c. --- Towers.
Septuagint, "palaces;" Greek: bareon. --- Feast. What a contr...
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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! The L...
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He proceeds with the same subject, and adopts similar words. He says
first, that God had _abominated his altar_; (152) an expression not
strictly proper, but the Prophet could not otherwise fully shew...
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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 LORD HATH CAST OFF HIS ALTAR,.... Whether of incense, or of burnt
offerings; the sacrifices of which used to be acceptable to him; but
now the altar being cast down and demolished, there were no m...
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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 o...
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_He hath violently taken away his tabernacle as of a garden_ The
Vulgate reads, _dissipavit, quasi hortum, tentorium suum; he hath
dissolved, broke in pieces, scattered_, or _laid waste, his tent as a...
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The Lord hath cast off His altar, rejecting it with disdain, chiefly
on account of the hypocritical worship connected with it; HE HATH
ABHORRED HIS SANCTUARY, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, th...
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A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
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GIVEN UP:
_ Heb._ shut up...
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1-9 A sad representation is here made of the state of God's church,
of Jacob and Israel; but the notice seems mostly to refer to the hand
of the Lord in their calamities. Yet God is not an enemy to h...
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By ALTAR and SANCTUARY seemeth not to be meant strictly here the
places or buildings so called, which are said to be the Lord s,
because he directed the making of them, and they were dedicated to his...
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Lamentations 2:7 Lord H136 spurned H2186 (H8804) altar H4196 abandoned
H5010 (H8765) sanctuary H4720 up H5462
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THE LORD'S ANGER IS REVEALED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM
(LAMENTATIONS 2:1).
In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger'
(antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destruction on...
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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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_He hath violently taken away His tabernacle._
DIVINE DESTRUCTION
Jehovah is here represented as throwing down His own temple, as
treating it as if it were a temporary shelter, as disregarding all it...
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_How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in ms
anger._
CHASTISEMENTS
1. It is our duty to strive with ourselves to be affected with the
miseries of God’s people.
2. The chastise...
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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.—
(ו) Lamentations 2:6. The dwelling-place of Jehovah on Mount Zion,
which He claims as His own possession, with all its appointed
services, has shared in the tribulations. HE HAS TRE...
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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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2 Chronicles 36:19; Acts 6:13; Acts 6:14; Amos 2:5; Ezekiel 24:21;...
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They — The enemies with their triumphs and blasphemies, made as
great a noise, as those that sang holy songs, or played on
instruments, were wont to make to the glory of God....