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Verse Lamentations 2:22. _THOU HAST CALLED AS IN A SOLEMN DAY_] It is
by thy influence alone that so many enemies are called together at one
time; and they have so hemmed us in that none could escape...
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THOU HAST CALLED AS IN A SOLEMN DAY - i. e. “Thou” callest “like
a feast day,” i. e. like the proclaiming of a festival.
MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT - The prophet’s watch-word (Jeremiah 6:25
note). God no...
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CHAPTER 2 WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE
The great catastrophe continues in vivid description throughout this
chapter also. Not an enemy has done it, not Nebuchadrezzar and his
Chaldean hordes, but the Lord i...
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LAMENTATIONS 2. THE SECOND LAMENT. This differs from the first in its
contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same,
_i.e._ there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first word...
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SOLEMN DAY. day of assembly.
TERRORS ROUND ABOUT. Compare Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah
20:10; Jeremiah 46:5;...
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_Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on
every side_ i.e. Jehovah has summoned for my destruction the sword,
famine, and pestilence. For the comparison with a solemn assemb...
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THOU HAST CALLED, &C.— "Terrors come upon me from every side by thy
appointment, just as multitudes used to flock to Jerusalem at the time
of the solemn feasts." Houbigant renders it rather more clear...
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IV. THE PROPHET'S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:20-22
TRANSLATION
(20) Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this! Shall
women eat their offspring, babes who are carried in the ar...
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that
in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I
have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. THOU...
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2:22 side; (b-17) See Jeremiah 6:25 ....
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ZION'S SORROWS DUE TO JEHOVAH'S ANGER
In this second dirge, the cause of Zion's woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah
has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off.
Zion's miseries are the ju...
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MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT] as in Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah
20:10. Jehovah has now summoned His terrors (_Magormissabib_), as at
other times He had summoned His people to the festivals (A SOL...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 2
NOW JEREMIAH SPEAKS.
V1 The *Lord’s anger is like a black cloud over Zion (*Jerusalem).
He allowed enemies to destroy the beauty...
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THOU HAST CALLED... — Better, _Thou hast summoned, as for a solemn
feast-day._ (Comp. Lamentations 1:15.) In “terrors round about” we
have a characteristic phrase of Jeremiah’s (Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremia...
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תִּקְרָא֩ כְ יֹ֨ום מֹועֵ֤ד מְגוּרַי֙
מִ סָּבִ
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THE CALL TO PRAYER
Lamentations 2:18
IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the
concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its
transitions are very abrupt....
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In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow
he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct
action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its materi...
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CHAPTER II.
_ About. The troops of the enemy resemble those multitudes, which come
from all parts to Jerusalem. Many kings could not raise such an army.
(Calmet)_...
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken
to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I
may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach i...
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Here he uses a most appropriate metaphor, to show that the people had
been brought to the narrowest straits; for he says that _terrors _had
on every side surrounded them, as when a solemn assembly is...
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The second chapter is a very deep and touching appeal. The desolation
of Jerusalem is looked at as Jehovah's own work, on what was His own,
and not as that of the enemy. Never had there been such sorr...
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THOU HAST CALLED, AS IN A SOLEMN DAY, MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT,....
Terrible enemies, as the Chaldeans; these came at the call of God, as
soldiers at the command of their general; and in as great number...
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in
the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I
have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Ver....
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_Behold, O Lord, to whom thou hast done this_ To thy people, for whom
thou hast formerly expressed so much tenderness and affection.
Jerusalem seems to be here introduced speaking. _Shall the women ea...
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day, as for a festival prepared for
the enemies, MY TERRORS ROUND ABOUT, from every direction, so that
Jerusalem was surrounded by them, SO THAT IN THE DAY OF THE LORD'...
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THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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10-22 Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by
famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and
eaten, according to the threatening, Deuteronomy 28:53. Multitu...
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Lamentations 2:22 invited H7121 (H8799) feast H4150 day H3117 terrors
H4032 surround H5439 day H3117 LORDS H30
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THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF
JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO
CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18).
The change between Lame...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation on the effect of the calamities of Judah. God's
passionate consideration appealed to.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The wormwood and gall in affliction is the thought t...
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Lamentations 2:1. _How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with
a cloud._ The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope.
Lamentations 2:2. _The Lord hath swallowed up all the inha...
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_Thou hast called. .. my terrors round about._
THE WICKED INSTRUMENTS OF PUNISHMENT
1. God raiseth up the wickedest, and employeth them to punish His own
servants when they sin (Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:1 God Has Set Zion under a
Cloud. This chapter emphasizes the completeness of God’s judgment on
Jerusalem. The verses unfold in three parts, each of which has a
dif...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:22 A FESTIVAL DAY. The old
festivals (see Lamentations 1:4,...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ר) Lamentations 2:20. The prayer is put into words correspondent
with the circumstances. SEE, JEHOVAH, AND BEHOLD TO WHOM THOU HAST
DONE THIS, to the city called thine, to the peop...
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ZION'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD. LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS.
EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 2:1
HATH THE LORD COVERED; rather, _doth _… _cover_. THE DAUGHTER OF
ZION; i.e.
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The second lamentation:
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, and he has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of
Israel, and remembered not his footstool...
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My terrors — As my people were wont to be called together from all
parts in a solemn day, so now my terrible enemies, or terrible things
are by thee called together....