This was according to what God had threatened in case of disobedience, Deuteronomy 28:57, and a thing which hath often happened in sieges, 2 Kings 6:29. Such things did happen in the last destruction of Jerusalem, as we read in Josephus; and though we read of no such thing happening in the siege of it by Nebuchadnezzar, yet that there were some such sad instances appears from this text.
Verse 10. _THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN_ _CHILDREN_] Lamentations 2:20. But here there is a reference to mothers eating their own children; and this was done, not by mothers c...
PITIFUL - i. e. tender-hearted, compassionate. meat is used for food Psalms 69:21. What is here stated actually occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by Titus....
CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed: How is the gold become dim...
LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
PITIFUL. tender-hearted. HAVE SODDEN, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 28:57). Compare 2 Kings 6:29. CHILDREN. babes....
Cp. ch. Lamentations 2:20, and Jeremiah 19:9. _pitiful_ (hitherto) compassionate. For this meaning, as opposed to its modern sense, pitiable, cp. Latimer, _Sermons_, p. 391. "Because I speak here of...
THE HANDS, &C.— _The hands of tender-hearted women have boiled their own children: they served them for meat in their calamity,_ &c....
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A RUINED KINGDOM Lamentations 4:1-22 The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s 1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines instea...
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN CHILDREN - (;...
ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom. In...
This v. describes a gruesome scene, alluded to in Lamentations 2:20, and predicted in Jeremiah 19:9. PITIFUL WOMEN] the daughters of an effete civilisation, who had been nursed in the lap of luxury....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 4 JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK. V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has changed! The stones of the *temple...
THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN. — See Note on Lamentations 2:20....
יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיֹּ֔ות בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ...
CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two...
The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
Pitful. So their nature dictates. (Worthington) --- But hunger made them the reverse. Some think they slew their children, to prevent them being exposed to more cruel torments, (Calmet) as the people...
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they e...
Here Jeremiah refers to that disgraceful and abominable deed mentioned yesterday; for it was not only a barbarity, but a beastly savageness, when mothers boiled their own children. That it was done is...
Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN CHILDREN,.... Such as were naturally, and agreeably to their sex, pitiful and compassionate; merciful to the poor, as the Targum; and especially te...
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Ver. 10. _The hands of the pitiful women have sodden._] Sodden the...
_The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children_ The affection of a mother toward her children is the strongest of all natural affections, and yet the famine hath forced that tender sex...
The hands of the pitiful women, of those who were tenderhearted and merciful, from whom one might have expected a different behavior, HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN CHILDREN, in an abhorrent and almost unexpla...
JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
Lamentations 4:10 hands H3027 compassionate H7362 women H802 cooked H1310 (H8765) children H3206 food H1262 (H8
THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 4:1). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (precious) sto...
CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah. Sins of the leaders acknowledged. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the mea...
Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:10 The most COMPASSIONATE WOMEN in the land were so hungry that they BOILED THEIR OWN CHILDREN (see...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to their instincts...
THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING. EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 4:1 HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas f
The fourth lamentation: How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
2 Kings 6:26; 2 Kings 6:29; Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 28:57;...