George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 5:14
Gates, where sentence was usually passed. (Haydock) --- The Jews had judges at Babylon, (Daniel xiii. 5.) but not at first, nor everywhere.
Gates, where sentence was usually passed. (Haydock) --- The Jews had judges at Babylon, (Daniel xiii. 5.) but not at first, nor everywhere.
Verse 14. _THE ELDERS HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE_] There is now no more justice administered to the people; they are under military law, or disposed of in every sense according to the caprice of their...
THE GATE - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for conversation, and the music of stringed instruments....
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
_from the gate_ the place of social enjoyment and conversation, answering to our clubs and other places of entertainment. See on Jeremiah 14:2....
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. THE ELDERS HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE. Aged men in the East meet in the open space round the gate to decide judicial trials, and...
5:14 music. (a-13) * _ Neginoth_ , 'stringed instruments,' as Title, Psalms 4:6 , Psalms 4:54 , Psalms 4:55 , Psalms 4:61 ,...
ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...
FROM THE GATE] corresponding to our public square or park (Jeremiah 14:2)....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE. — The gate in an Eastern city was the natural place of meeting for the elder citizens as for counsel and judgment (Ruth 4:1; Joshua 20:4), and also for social converse (Job...
זְקֵנִים֙ מִ שַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מִ...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The preceding p...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
The elders have ceased from the (h) gate, the young men from their music. (h) There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth....
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Here the Prophet briefly shews that the city was reduced to ruins, so that nothing but desolation could be seen there. For when cities are inhabited, judges sit at the gate and young men exercise them...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
THE ELDERS HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE,.... Of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, as the Targum; from the gate of the city, where they used to sit and try causes; but now there was nothing of this k...
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. Ver. 14. _The elders have ceased from the gate._] Where they were wont to sit, Gen 34:20 to judge between party and party. _ Th...
_Princes are hanged up by their hand_ By the hand of their enemies. _They took the young men to grind_ To grind at the mill was the common employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5. _The children fell under t...
The elders have ceased from the gate, no longer assembling at the customary place for deliberations and judgments, THE YOUNG MEN FROM THEIR MUSIC, for the joyful meetings were also held in the open sp...
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient u...
Our grave men were wont to sit and execute judgment in the gates, but now there is no such thing. Our young men were wont to play on music, and to have their merry meetings, but they are also ceased....
Lamentations 5:14 elders H2205 ceased H7673 (H8804) gate H8179 men H970 music H5058 elders -...
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. The area within and around the gate of the city was where much local activity took place. It was often the only place in the city...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
_The elders have ceased from the gate._ THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OVERTHROWN 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (A) It bringeth...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:14 OLD MEN. Civic leaders. HAVE LEFT THE CITY GATE. They no longer sat where decisions were made and business was conducted....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:14. Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social pastimes. THE ELDERS CEASED FROM [FREQUENTING] T...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
Deuteronomy 16:18; Ezekiel 26:13; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 3:2; Isaiah 3:3