Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, she implored Him to observe how badly she fared. My bowels are troubled, being violently excited with excessive grief; mine heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled, the punishment being altogether deserved, in the full measure in which it struck her. Abroad the sword bereaveth, as the battle demanded its victims; at home there is as death, namely, by famine and pestilence.
Verse 20. _ABROAD THE SWORD BEREAVETH_] WAR is through the _country; and at home death_; the pestilence and famine rage in the city; calamity in every shape is fallen upon me. _Virgil_ represents the...
TROUBLED - Or, inflamed with sorrow. TURNED WITHIN ME - Agitated violently. AT HOME THERE IS AS DEATH - i. e. “in the house” there are pale pining forms, wasting with hunger, and presenting the appe...
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...
BEHOLD. Here begins the prayer. ABROAD THE SWORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:25)....
See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....
With description of her distress Zion combines prayer, appealing to Jehovah for redress. _my bowels_ See on Jeremiah 31:20. _are troubled_ lit. _are in a ferment_. _is turned_ cannot rest, is viole...
ABROAD THE SWORD, &C.— _Without, the sword bereaveth; within, the mortality._ Virgil has an expression remarkably similar to this: _Crudelis ubique Luctus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis imago._ AEN...
C. The Appeal to God Lamentations 1:20-22 TRANSLATION (20) Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is turned within me because I have grievously rebelled. In the...
Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. MY BOWELS ARE TRO...
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...
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...
BEHOLD, O LORD... — Deserted by men, the mourner appeals to Jehovah. “Bowels” and “heart” are used almost as synonymous for the deepest emotions of the soul. The word for “troubled,” elsewhere (Psalms...
רְאֵ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה כִּֽי ־צַר ־לִי֙ מֵעַ֣י חֳמַרְ
ZION'S APPEAL Lamentations 1:12 IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle of the s...
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...
_Alike, by famine, &c. (Calmet) (Worthington) --- Ubique pavor et plurima mortis imago. (Virgil, \'c6neid ii.)_...
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my tra...
The people turn again to pray God: and what has been before said ought to be remembered, that these lamentations of Jeremiah differ from the complaints of the ungodly; because the faithful first ackno...
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...
BEHOLD, O LORD, FOR I [AM] IN DISTRESS,.... Thus she turns from one to another; sometimes she addresses strangers, people that pass by; sometimes she calls to her lovers; and at other times to God, wh...
Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death. Ver. 20. _Beho...
_Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress_ Take cognizance of my case, and use such means for my relief as thou pleasest. It is a matter of comfort to us, that the troubles which oppress our spirits are p...
12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...
The petition is of the same nature as before, a petition for mercy, as the product of that pity and compassion which extreme misery begets in good souls, (and is ascribed unto God, though found in him...
Lamentations 1:20 See H7200 (H8798) LORD H3068 distress H6887 (H8804) soul H4578 troubled H2560 (H8777) he
RECOGNISING THE DEPTHS OF HER OWN SIN JERUSALEM CALLS ON YHWH TO DO THE SAME TO HER ENEMIES WHO ARE GLOATING OVER HER AS HE HAS DONE TO HER, FOR THEY ARE EQUALLY SINFUL. AND SHE CALLS ON HIM TO AVENGE...
JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which Jerusalem...
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...
_I called for my lovers, but they deceived me._ DECEITFUL HELPERS 1. It is an increase of sorrow to be disappointed of their help by whom we looked to be delivered out of our troubles. 2. God often...
_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_ ZION’S APPEAL 1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy. Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be passi...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...
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...
1 Kings 8:47; Deuteronomy 32:25; Ezekiel 7:15; Habakkuk 3:16; Hos
Death — By famine and pestilence....