Princes are hanged up by their hand, the disgrace of their slaughter thus being intensified by their suspension from the accursed tree; the faces of elders were not honored, the enemies showing no respect for dignity or age.
Verse 12. _PRINCES ARE HANGED UP BY THEIR HAND_] It is very probable that this was a species of punishment. They were suspended from hooks in the wall by their hands till they died through torture an...
After the princes had been put to death their bodies were hung up by the hand to expose them to public contumely. Old age, again, no more availed to shield men from shameful treatment than the high ra...
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...
FACES. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole person....
The reference may either be to impalement after death, or to torture in order, as Pe. suggests, to obtain information as to hidden treasure. Both death by crucifixion and subsequent impalement were re...
We notice the sudden harking back to incidents connected immediately with the capture of the city....
BY THEIR HAND— That is to say, by the hands of the Chaldeans....
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...
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. PRINCES ARE HANGED UP BY THEIR HAND - a piece of wanton cruelty invented by the Chaldeans. Grotius translates, 'Princes wer...
5:12 elders (f-11) Or 'the aged,' as ch. 4.16....
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...
HANGED UP BY THEIR HAND] The Assyrian custom was to impale bodies after death in order to expose them to the most utter contempt possible (Deuteronomy 21:23; 1 Samuel 31:10)....
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....
PRINCES ARE HANGED... — The words point to the shameless exposure of the bodies of the dead. (Comp. the treatment of Saul and his sons in 1 Samuel 31:10.) This was the common practice of the Assyrian...
שָׂרִים֙ בְּ יָדָ֣ם נִתְל֔וּ פְּנֵ֥י זְקֵנִ֖ים...
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...
Princes were hung up by (f) their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. (f) That is, by the enemies hand....
_Hand. Thus Leonidas was treated, after his head was cut off, by Xerxes. (Herodotus vii. 238.)_...
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...
The beginning of the verse may be explained in two ways. All render thus, “The princes have been slain by their hand,” that is, of their enemies. But I wonder how it never occurred to them, that it wa...
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...
PRINCES ARE HANGED UP BY THEIR HAND,.... According to some, as Aben Ezra observes, by the hand of the servants before mentioned; however, by the hand of the Chaldeans or Babylonians; see Jeremiah 52:1...
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Ver. 12. _Princes are hanged up by the hand._] Made to die a dog's death, and, as some _a_ will have it, by their own hands...
_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...
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...
Most probably by the enemies hands, though some would have it by their hands, intimating a more sharp and lingering death. Hanging was an ancient way in the Eastern countries of putting malefactors to...
Lamentations 5:12 Princes H8269 up H8518 (H8738) hands H3027 elders H6440 H2205 respected H1921 (H8738)
Princes were hanged up by their hand, The faces of elders were not honoured. The cruelty of conquerors was well known. The ‘princes' may well have been dead, for the display of the dead bodies of imp...
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 5:12 PRINCES. Or “officials.” HUNG UP BY THEIR HANDS. Most likely for execution (see Genesis 40:1
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:10. The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. OUR SKIN IS HOT LIKE AN OVEN; the feverishness is BECAUSE O...
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...
Isaiah 47:6; Jeremiah 39:6; Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:10; Jerem