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Verse Lamentations 4:4. _THE TONGUE OF THE SUCKING CHILD_]
Lamentations 2:12....
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CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME
This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion
and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed:
How is the gold become dim...
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LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than
Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much
of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
A RUINED KINGDOM
Lamentations 4:1-22
The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s
1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines
instea...
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ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION
In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various
classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom.
In...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 4
JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK.
V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has
changed! The stones of the *temple...
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דָּבַ֨ק לְשֹׁ֥ון יֹונֵ֛ק אֶל ־חִכֹּ֖ו
בַּ †...
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CONTRASTS
Lamentations 4:1
IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its
predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of
Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two...
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The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which
nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the
disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
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How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the
stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The
precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they e...
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He says that sucking children were so thirsty, that the tongue was as
it were fixed to the palate; and it was a dreadful thing; for mothers
would willingly pour forth their own blood to feed their inf...
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Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly
measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after
all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
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THE TONGUE OF THE SUCKING CHILD CLEAVETH TO THE ROOF OF HIS MOUTH FOR
THIRST,.... Through want of the milk of the breast, which is both food
and drink unto it:
THE YOUNG CHILDREN ASK BREAD; of their...
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_The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for
thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto
them._
Ver. 4. _The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth._...
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_Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast The very dragons have drawn
out the breast:_ so Blaney. Even these fierce and destructive animals
are not so unnatural as to neglect the care of their young...
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JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for
thirst, there being no nourishment for infants; THE YOUNG CHILDREN ASK
BREAD, AND NO MAN BREAKETH IT UNTO THEM, since no one was l...
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1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most
exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in
the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
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As the fatness of the mother's milk makes it instead of bread and
flesh to the sucking child, so the moisture of it makes it to be as
drink to allay its heat; the children wanting this moisture, their...
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Lamentations 4:4 tongue H3956 infant H3243 (H8802) clings H1692
(H8804) mouth H2441 thirst H6772 children H5768
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THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH
(LAMENTATIONS 4:1).
Lamentations 4:1
(Aleph) How is the gold become dim!
How is the most pure gold changed!
The (precious) sto...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah.
Sins of the leaders acknowledged.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the
mea...
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Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because
of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does
not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim.
Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:3 Even wild animals feed their
young, but Jerusalem’s mothers cannot feed their children. The
siege, famine, and devastation are too severe (see Jeremiah 15:1
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood.
EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact
testifying that they were true to their instincts...
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THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING.
EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 4:1
HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas
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The fourth lamentation:
How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of
the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious
sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
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Deuteronomy 32:24; Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations
2:12;...