George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 2:3
Horn: beauty and power, (Haydock) the two kingdoms, the fortresses, (Calmet) and all their strength, denoted by horns. (Worthington) --- Hand; refusing us protection, and aiding the Chaldeans.
Horn: beauty and power, (Haydock) the two kingdoms, the fortresses, (Calmet) and all their strength, denoted by horns. (Worthington) --- Hand; refusing us protection, and aiding the Chaldeans.
Verse Lamentations 2:3. _THE HORN OF ISRAEL_] His _power_ and _strength_. It is a metaphor taken from cattle, whose principal strength lies in their _horns_. _HATH DRAWN BACK HIS RIGHT HAND_] He did...
Since the horn is the symbol of power, the cutting off of every horn means the depriving Israel of all power of resistance. The drawing back of God’s right hand signifies the withdrawal of that specia...
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...
HORN. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the self-protection afforded by it. RIGHT HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_. App-6....
Jehovah has (_a_) cut off the mighty ones of Israel, (_b_) withdrawn His own protection from His people, (_c_) taken the offensive against them. _all the horn_ mg. _every horn_, the horn being the sy...
HE HATH DRAWN BACK HIS RIGHT HAND— "He hath withdrawn his wonted assistance, and given up his people into the hands of their enemies." See Psalms 74:11....
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...
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. HE H...
2:3 his (a-16) Or 'turned back his' (i.e. Israel's)....
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...
ALL THE HORN] better, 'every horn,' in the sense of self-protection or of resistance, the horn being a symbol of strength....
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...
ALL THE HORN OF ISRAEL... — The horn, as elsewhere (1 Samuel 2:1; Psalms 92:10; Psalms 112:9), is the symbol of strength, aggressive or defensive, and may therefore stand here for every element of str...
גָּדַ֣ע בָּֽ חֳרִי ־אַ֗ף כֹּ֚ל קֶ֣רֶן יִשְׂרָ
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...
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...
He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the (d) horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his (e) right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth on eve...
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...
Jeremiah expresses the same thing in various ways; but all that he says tends to shew that it was an evidence of God’s extreme vengeance, when the people, the city, and the Temple, were destroyed. But...
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...
HE HATH CUT OFF IN [HIS] FIERCE ANGER ALL THE HORN OF ISRAEL,.... All its power and strength, especially its kingly power, which is often signified by a horn in Scripture; see Daniel 7:24; this the Lo...
He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth round about....
_The Lord hath swallowed up the habitations_, &c. Without showing any pity or concern for them. _He hath thrown down the strong holds_, &c. Hath suffered the enemies to batter down their fortification...
He hath cut off in His fierce anger all the horn of Israel, symbol of strength and majesty, breaking it in the heat of His indignation; HE HATH DRAWN BACK HIS RIGHT HAND FROM BEFORE THE ENEMY, withdra...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
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...
HE HATH CUT OFF IN HIS FIERCE ANGER ALL THE HORN OF ISRAEL; that is, the beauty and strength of Israel, so horn signifieth by a usual metaphor in Scripture, PSALMS 74:4 JEREMIAH 48:25, &c., the horn b...
Lamentations 2:3 off H1438 (H8804) fierce H2750 anger H639 horn H7161 Israel H3478 drawn H7725 (H8689) back...
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...
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...
_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...
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 2:3 God’s RIGHT HAND, which in times past shattered Pharaoh’s army (Exodus 15:6,...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (א) Lamentations 2:1. The poet sees nature as if it were in commotion. A storm-cloud piles up over Jerusalem, shrouding with its gloom even the most commanding summit. But it is not...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:22; Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 4:4; Jer
The horn — All their beauty and strength. Drawn back — God hath drawn back his assistance which he was wont to give the Jews against their enemies. Round about — God consumed them, not in this or that...