All the inhabitants of Zion have lost their former beauty; whatsoever splendour the city had, whether from the multitude or gallantry of her inhabitants, it is all gone; her nobles are become thin and ill-favoured, like beasts almost starved, their enemies pursue them to destroy them, and they have no strength to oppose or resist them.
HER PRINCES ... - Jeremiah had before his mind the sad flight of Zedekiah and his men of war, and their capture within a few miles of Jerusalem Jeremiah 39:4....
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...
LIKE HARTS. See note on Lamentations 1:3....
_majesty_ mg. less well, _beauty_. Exhaustion from hunger and fatigue has taken the place of dignity and wealth. _Her princes are become like harts_ The most natural reference is to the flight and cap...
LIKE HARTS— _Like rams,—And they go without strength before him who driveth them._...
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...
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. FROM THE DAUGHTER OF ZION ALL...
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...
HER PRINCES ARE BECOME LIKE HARTS] referring to Zedekiah's flight with his sons (Jeremiah 39:4)....
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...
HER PRINCES ARE BECOME LIKE HARTS... — Probably a reference to the flight and capture of Zedekiah (2 Kings 25:5; Jeremiah 39:5), who, with his sons and princes, fell into the hands of the Chaldæans, l...
וַ יֵּצֵ֥א _מִ_†_בַּת_† ־צִיֹּ֖ון כָּל ־הֲדָרָ֑הּ...
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...
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...
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are become (h) like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. (h) As men pined away...
_Beauty; princes' palaces, but particularly the temple, ver. 10. (Calmet) --- Rams, fleeing from place to place to seek relief. (Worthington)_...
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...
He continues the same subject. He says here that the daughter of Sion was denuded of all her ornaments. Now, we know what was the honor or dignity of that people; for Moses, in order to set forth the...
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...
AND FROM THE DAUGHTER OF ZION ALL HER BEAUTY IS DEPARTED,.... The kingdom removed; the priesthood ceased; the temple, their beautiful house, burnt; the palaces of their king and nobles demolished; and...
_And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer._ Ver. 6. _And from the daug...
_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...
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed, the presence of Jehovah and His glory in her midst; HER PRINCES ARE BECOME LIKE HARTS THAT FIND NO PASTURE, so that they have no strength to f...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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...
Lamentations 1:6 daughter H1323 Zion H6726 splendor H1926 departed H3318 (H8799) princes H8269 deer H354 find H467
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...
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...
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...
_And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed._ DEPARTING GLORY 1. The Church of God doth esteem the exercises of religion e most excellent and glorious thing that can be had in this lif...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ה) Lamentations 1:5. HER ADVERSARIES ARE BECOME THE HEAD, AS WAS threatened if unfaithful to the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:44); HER ENEMIES PROSPER, are in peace, and rest secure, knowi...
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...
2 Kings 19:21; 2 Samuel 4:11; 2 Samuel 4:12; Deuteronomy 28:25;...
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...