George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 1:4
Feast, thrice-a-year. This was the most charming sight, when all the nation met to adore God, and to renew their friendship with one another. (Calmet)
Feast, thrice-a-year. This was the most charming sight, when all the nation met to adore God, and to renew their friendship with one another. (Calmet)
Verse Lamentations 1:4. _THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN_] A fine prosopopoeia. The ways in which the people trod coming to the sacred solemnities, being now no longer frequented, are represented as _shedd...
Zion, as the holy city, is the symbol of the religious life of the people, just as Judah in the previous verse represents their national life. The “virgins” took a prominent part in all religious fest...
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...
THE WAYS. Not streets in the city, but the roads leading thereto. MOURN. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6. SOLEMN FEASTS. appointed feasts. See note on Psalms 74:8 (same word). BITTERNESS. bit...
_The ways of Zion do mourn_ The approaches to Jerusalem are meant. They are desolate, without the usual throng of those coming up to the feasts. For the thought of inanimate objects as sympathising w...
THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN— This verse seems evidently and beyond dispute to fix the subject of this poem to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple; the prophet lamenting in it the total desolatio...
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...
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. NONE COME TO THE SOLEMN FEASTS...
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...
THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN] The roads by which pilgrims came up to the feasts are now deserted (Jeremiah 14:2). HER VIRGINS] those who took part in the festal occasions (Psalms 68:25)....
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...
THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN. — The words paint what we may call the religious desolation of Jerusalem. The roads leading to it, the “gates” by which it was entered, were no longer thronged with pilgrims...
דַּרְכֵ֨י צִיֹּ֜ון אֲבֵלֹ֗ות מִ בְּלִי֙ בָּאֵ֣י...
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...
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come (f) to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness. (f) As they used to come up...
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...
Jeremiah refers here to another cause of sorrow, that the worship of God had ceased, it having been interrupted; nay, it seemed to have become extinct for ever. He then says that the _ways of Sion mou...
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...
THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN,.... Being unoccupied, as in Judges 5:6; or unfrequented: this is said by a rhetorical figure; as ways may be said to rejoice, or look pleasant and cheerful, when there are m...
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness. Ver. 4. _The ways of Zion do mo...
_The ways of Zion do mourn_ The highways leading to Zion, which used to be thronged with people going to the solemn feasts before the Lord, now, as it were, mourned on account of no persons travelling...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
The ways of Zion do mourn, all the roads leading to the capital lying desolate, because there are no pilgrims found there, BECAUSE NONE COME TO THE SOLEMN FEASTS, the great festivals of the Jewish yea...
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...
The ways that lead to the temple have as unlovely a complexion as mourners, being overgrown, by reason that none goeth up as usually to the feasts of the passover, of tabernacles, &c. Either all the g...
Lamentations 1:4 roads H1870 Zion H6726 mourn H57 comes H935 (H8802) feasts H4150 gates H8179 desolate H8074 ...
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...
_The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts._ THE DECAY OF RELIGION MOURNFUL 1. The overthrow of the commonwealth bringeth with it the overthrow of the Church’s outward peace....
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:4 Devastated Jerusalem lacks worshipers (see Jeremiah 41:4) to travel her ROADS, enter her gates
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ד) Lamentations 1:4 introduces another view personifying the religious condition: not the banished people, not the fallen city, but the dwelling-place of the Holy One of Israel is...
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...
Isaiah 24:4; Isaiah 32:9; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 14:2; Jer
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...
She — Persons of all ages and ranks are in bitterness....