George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 2:22
CHAPTER II.
About. The troops of the enemy resemble those multitudes, which come from all parts to Jerusalem. Many kings could not raise such an army. (Calmet)
CHAPTER II.
About. The troops of the enemy resemble those multitudes, which come from all parts to Jerusalem. Many kings could not raise such an army. (Calmet)
Verse Lamentations 2:22. _THOU HAST CALLED AS IN A SOLEMN DAY_] It is by thy influence alone that so many enemies are called together at one time; and they have so hemmed us in that none could escape...
THOU HAST CALLED AS IN A SOLEMN DAY - i. e. “Thou” callest “like a feast day,” i. e. like the proclaiming of a festival. MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT - The prophet’s watch-word (Jeremiah 6:25 note). God no...
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...
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...
SOLEMN DAY. day of assembly. TERRORS ROUND ABOUT. Compare Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5;...
_Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side_ i.e. Jehovah has summoned for my destruction the sword, famine, and pestilence. For the comparison with a solemn assemb...
THOU HAST CALLED, &C.— "Terrors come upon me from every side by thy appointment, just as multitudes used to flock to Jerusalem at the time of the solemn feasts." Houbigant renders it rather more clear...
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...
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. THOU...
2:22 side; (b-17) See Jeremiah 6:25 ....
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...
MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT] as in Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah 20:10. Jehovah has now summoned His terrors (_Magormissabib_), as at other times He had summoned His people to the festivals (A SOL...
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...
THOU HAST CALLED... — Better, _Thou hast summoned, as for a solemn feast-day._ (Comp. Lamentations 1:15.) In “terrors round about” we have a characteristic phrase of Jeremiah’s (Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremia...
תִּקְרָא֩ כְ יֹ֨ום מֹועֵ֤ד מְגוּרַי֙ מִ סָּבִ
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....
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...
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...
Here he uses a most appropriate metaphor, to show that the people had been brought to the narrowest straits; for he says that _terrors _had on every side surrounded them, as when a solemn assembly is...
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...
THOU HAST CALLED, AS IN A SOLEMN DAY, MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT,.... Terrible enemies, as the Chaldeans; these came at the call of God, as soldiers at the command of their general; and in as great number...
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. Ver....
_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...
Thou hast called as in a solemn day, as for a festival prepared for the enemies, MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT, from every direction, so that Jerusalem was surrounded by them, SO THAT IN THE DAY OF THE LORD'...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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...
As my people were wont to be called together from all parts in a solemn day, when they were to meet at Jerusalem from all parts of Judea; so now by thy providence my terrible enemies, or terrible thin...
Lamentations 2:22 invited H7121 (H8799) feast H4150 day H3117 terrors H4032 surround H5439 day H3117 LORDS H30
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...
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...
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...
_Thou hast called. .. my terrors round about._ THE WICKED INSTRUMENTS OF PUNISHMENT 1. God raiseth up the wickedest, and employeth them to punish His own servants when they sin (Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah...
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...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:22 A FESTIVAL DAY. The old festivals (see Lamentations 1:4,...
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...
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.
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...
My terrors — As my people were wont to be called together from all parts in a solemn day, so now my terrible enemies, or terrible things are by thee called together....