George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 1:3
Rest. Many returning to join Godolias, chap. xl. 7. (Calmet) --- The Jews who beheld their brethren led away to Babylon, retired into Egypt, but were in misery. (Worthington)
Rest. Many returning to join Godolias, chap. xl. 7. (Calmet) --- The Jews who beheld their brethren led away to Babylon, retired into Egypt, but were in misery. (Worthington)
Verse Lamentations 1:3. _BETWEEN THE STRAITS._] She has been brought into such difficulties, that it was impossible for her to escape. Has this any reference to the circumstances in which Zedekiah an...
BECAUSE OF ... - i. e. the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, “is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and laborious servitude,” to which they are subject in their own land...
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...
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...
AMONG THE HEATHEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 28:65). HEATHEN. nations. PERSECUTORS. pursuers. BETWEEN THE STRAITS. Like. hunted animal driven where there is no escape....
_is gone into captivity because of affliction_ The better rendering is, _is gone into_ EXILE (so mg.) _because of affliction_, i.e. the long sufferings of the Jews at the hands of Egypt and Chaldaea h...
BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION, AND—SERVITUDE— _She sitteth in affliction and in great service among the heathen, and findeth no rest._ Houbigant....
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A WIDOWED CITY Lamentations 1:1-22 Chapter one of Lamentations has two major divisions. In Lamentations 1:1-11 the prophet laments the present condition of Zion. Twice in this uni...
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. JUDAH IS...
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...
BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION AND.. GREAT SERVITUDE] i.e. Judah chose exile to escape the sufferings to which she was exposed in her own land (Jeremiah 40:11). BETWEEN THE STRAITS] RV 'within the straits.'...
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...
BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION. — The Authorised version suggests the thought that the words refer to the voluntary emigration of those who went to Egypt and other countries (Jeremiah 42:14), to avoid the oppr...
גָּֽלְתָ֨ה יְהוּדָ֤ה מֵ עֹ֨נִי֙ וּ מֵ רֹ֣ב
DESOLATION Lamentations 1:1 THE first elegy is devoted to moving pictures of the desolation of Jerusalem and the sufferings of her people. It dwells upon these disasters themselves, with fewer refere...
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...
Judah is gone into captivity because (e) of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress....
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth...
Interpreters apply this, but in my view improperly, to the captivity of the people; on the contrary, the Prophet means that the Jews had been scattered and sought refuges when oppressed, as they were...
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...
JUDAH IS GONE INTO CAPTIVITY,.... Not only Jerusalem the metropolis of Judea was destroyed, but the whole country was ravaged, and the inhabitants of it carried captive into Babylon: BECAUSE OF AFFLI...
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Ver. 3....
_Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction_, &c. Her miseries have received their finishing stroke in a total captivity among, and bondage to, heathen and infidels, because of the oppression...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
Judah is gone into captivity, led away into exile, BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION, the misery upon the country on account of the occupation of the land by the Chaldeans, AND BECAUSE OF GREAT SERVITUDE, the ser...
BECAUSE OF GREAT SERVITUDE: _ Heb._ for the greatness of servitude...
1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation. Je...
This is expounded as the cause why the Jews were carried into captivity, because of the servitude and oppression exercised amongst them, oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally, keepi...
Lamentations 1:3 Judah H3063 captivity H1540 (H8804) affliction H6040 hard H7230 servitude H5656 dwells H3427 (H8
THE PROPHET PINES OVER WHAT JERUSALEM HAS LOST (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). In these opening verses (Lamentations 1:1) Jerusalem is pictured by the writer in terms of how it now was, an empty city, a widow and...
THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
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...
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...
_Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction._ AFFLICTIVE DISPENSATIONS 1. The outward things of this life are the soonest lost; and being enjoyed, the most uncertain. (1) They are most subj...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:3 GONE INTO EXILE. See Jeremiah 52:24. BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION AND HARD SERVITUDE. See...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ג) Lamentations 1:3. JUDAH, the population of the whole territory, with that of Jerusalem, IS TAKEN INTO EXILE, a subjugated, impoverished remnant being left. FROM AFFLICTION, the...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:20; 2 Chronicles 36:21; 2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 24:15;...
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Lamentations 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...
Because — Because of the servitude and oppression exercised among them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally; keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when they ought to...