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Verse Lamentations 1:4. _THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN_] A fine
prosopopoeia. The ways in which the people trod coming to the sacred
solemnities, being now no longer frequented, are represented as
_shedd...
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Zion, as the holy city, is the symbol of the religious life of the
people, just as Judah in the previous verse represents their national
life. The “virgins” took a prominent part in all religious
fest...
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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...
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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...
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THE WAYS. Not streets in the city, but the roads leading thereto.
MOURN. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6.
SOLEMN FEASTS. appointed feasts. See note on Psalms 74:8 (same word).
BITTERNESS. bit...
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_The ways of Zion do mourn_ The approaches to Jerusalem are meant.
They are desolate, without the usual throng of those coming up to the
feasts.
For the thought of inanimate objects as sympathising w...
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THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN— This verse seems evidently and beyond
dispute to fix the subject of this poem to the destruction of
Jerusalem and the temple; the prophet lamenting in it the total
desolatio...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
A WIDOWED CITY
Lamentations 1:1-22
Chapter one of Lamentations has two major divisions. In Lamentations
1:1-11 the prophet laments the present condition of Zion. Twice in
this uni...
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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts:
all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
NONE COME TO THE SOLEMN FEASTS...
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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...
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THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN] The roads by which pilgrims came up to the
feasts are now deserted (Jeremiah 14:2).
HER VIRGINS] those who took part in the festal occasions (Psalms
68:25)....
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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...
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THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN. — The words paint what we may call the
religious desolation of Jerusalem. The roads leading to it, the
“gates” by which it was entered, were no longer thronged with
pilgrims...
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דַּרְכֵ֨י צִיֹּ֜ון אֲבֵלֹ֗ות מִ
בְּלִי֙ בָּאֵ֣י...
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DESOLATION
Lamentations 1:1
THE first elegy is devoted to moving pictures of the desolation of
Jerusalem and the sufferings of her people. It dwells upon these
disasters themselves, with fewer refere...
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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...
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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come (f) to the solemn feasts:
all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.
(f) As they used to come up...
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_Feast, thrice-a-year. This was the most charming sight, when all the
nation met to adore God, and to renew their friendship with one
another. (Calmet)_...
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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she
become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess
among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth...
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Jeremiah refers here to another cause of sorrow, that the worship of
God had ceased, it having been interrupted; nay, it seemed to have
become extinct for ever. He then says that the _ways of Sion mou...
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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...
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THE WAYS OF ZION DO MOURN,.... Being unoccupied, as in Judges 5:6; or
unfrequented: this is said by a rhetorical figure; as ways may be said
to rejoice, or look pleasant and cheerful, when there are m...
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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all
her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted,
and she [is] in bitterness.
Ver. 4. _The ways of Zion do mo...
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_The ways of Zion do mourn_ The highways leading to Zion, which used
to be thronged with people going to the solemn feasts before the Lord,
now, as it were, mourned on account of no persons travelling...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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The ways of Zion do mourn, all the roads leading to the capital lying
desolate, because there are no pilgrims found there, BECAUSE NONE COME
TO THE SOLEMN FEASTS, the great festivals of the Jewish yea...
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1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times
Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the
Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation.
Je...
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Lamentations 1:4 roads H1870 Zion H6726 mourn H57 comes H935 (H8802)
feasts H4150 gates H8179 desolate H8074 ...
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THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED
(LAMENTATIONS 1:1).
The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He
pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
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THE PROPHET PINES OVER WHAT JERUSALEM HAS LOST (LAMENTATIONS 1:1).
In these opening verses (Lamentations 1:1) Jerusalem is pictured by
the writer in terms of how it now was, an empty city, a widow and...
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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...
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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...
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_The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts._
THE DECAY OF RELIGION MOURNFUL
1. The overthrow of the commonwealth bringeth with it the overthrow of
the Church’s outward peace....
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LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins
with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:4 Devastated Jerusalem lacks
worshipers (see Jeremiah 41:4) to travel her ROADS, enter her gates
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ד) Lamentations 1:4 introduces another view personifying the
religious condition: not the banished people, not the fallen city, but
the dwelling-place of the Holy One of Israel is...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 1:1
A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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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...
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Isaiah 24:4; Isaiah 32:9; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 14:2; Jer
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Lamentations 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see
the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...
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She — Persons of all ages and ranks are in bitterness....