She is carried out of her own land into an enemy's country, and made a hissing and scorn to those who before reverenced her, (in all this God is righteous, for all orders of men have grievously sinned,) because they have seen the Lord stripping her of all her blessings, and exposing her to the scorn and reproach of all men, as strumpets are exposed.
GRIEVOUSLY SINNED - literally, “Jerusalem hath sinned a sin,” giving the idea of a persistent continuance in wickedness. REMOVED - Or, become an abomination. Sin has made Jerusalem an object of horro...
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...
GRIEVOUSLY SINNED. Note the Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ Hebrew. sinned. sin. Thus well rendered. See note on "weepeth sore" (Lamentations 1:2). SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'_. App-44. IS REMOVE D. separ...
These _vv_. in figurative language describe the Jewish people, as having brought upon itself through sin and consequent national humiliation the contempt of all its neighbours, while it is painfully c...
_is become_(mg. _is removed) as an unclean thing_ Targ. _has become a wanderer_, but the text is doubtless right....
BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEEN HER NAKEDNESS— That is to say, _her disgrace._ For, according to the idea of those times, nothing could be inflicted more ignominious or disgraceful than to strip them of their...
B. Explanation of the Present Condition of Zion Lamentations 1:8-9 a TRANSLATION (8) Jerusalem sinned grievously and therefore she has become filthy; all who once honored her now despise her, having...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. JERUSALEM HATH GRIEVOUSLY...
1:8 grievously (g-3) Lit. 'sinned a sin.'...
IS REMOVED] RV 'is become as an unclean thing.' HER NAKEDNESS] her sin and its punishment (Lamentations 4:21)....
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...
THEREFORE SHE IS REMOVED. — The verb is used technically for the separation of a woman under ceremonial defilement; and the daughter of Zion in her sin and shame is compared (as in Lamentations 1:17)...
חֵ֤טְא חָֽטְאָה֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם עַל ־כֵּ֖ן לְ...
SIN AND SUFFERING Lamentations 1:8 THE doctrinaire rigour of Judaism in its uncompromising association of moral and physical evils has led to an unreasonable disregard for the solid truth which lies...
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...
_Unstable. Hebrew also, "removed," (Haydock) like a woman unclean. (Calmet) --- Such were excluded from places of prayer, and were not allowed to touch a sacred book, or to pronounce God's name. Their...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her sk...
Here the Prophet expresses more clearly and strongly what he had briefly referred to, even that all the evil which the Jews suffered proceeded from God’s vengeance, and that they were worthy of such a...
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...
JERUSALEM HATH GRIEVOUSLY SINNED,.... Or, "hath sinned a sin" r; a great sin, as the Targum; the sin of idolatry, according to some; or of covenant breaking, as others; though perhaps no particular si...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Ver. 8. _Jerusalem hath gr...
_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned_ Hebrew, חשׂא חשׂאה, _in sinning hath sinned_, or _hath sinned sin:_ that is, sinned wilfully and deliberately; hath sinned that sin which of all others is the abomin...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, chiefly by joining in the idolatry of Israel and the heathen nations, THEREFORE SHE IS REMOVED, as one separated from the congregation on account of legal impurity; A...
IS REMOVED: _ Heb._ is become a removing or wandering...
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 1:8 Jerusalem H3389 sinned H2398 (H8804) gravely H2399 vile H5206 honored H3513 (H8764) despise H210
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...
WHAT JERUSALEM HAS BECOME (LAMENTATIONS 1:8). Having outlined what Jerusalem had lost the prophet now turns his thoughts to what she has become. She has become like a menstrual woman whose situation i...
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...
_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed._ THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH The emphatic word is “therefore.” It rings with sad and solemn cadence through the most mournful of all the books...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:8 JERUSALEM SINNED GRIEVOUSLY. See v. Lamentations 1:5. FILTHY. Literally, “impurity”; se
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ח) Lamentations 1:8. JERUSALEM HAS SINNED A SIN, has broken the law of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty; THEREFORE SHE IS BECOME AS AN UNCLEAN ONE; not...
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 8:46; 1 Kings 8:47; 1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:9; 1 Samuel 2:30;...
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...