This seemeth to refer to the state of the Jews in Babylon, where it is probable their adversaries made them buy both water and wood, which in the land of Canaan they had plentifully, and without any further charge to them than fetching the one, and cutting down and bringing home the other.
Verse Lamentations 5:4. _WE HAVE DRUNKEN OUR WATER FOR MONEY_] I suppose the meaning of this is, that every thing was taxed by the Chaldeans, and that they kept the management in their own hands, so...
Better as in the margin cometh to us for price. The rendering of the the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the original. The bitterness of the complaint lies in this, that it w...
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
The bitterness of their captive state is shewn by the fact that they, the rightful owners, were compelled to buy from the enemy who had come into possession the commonest necessaries of life. _is sol...
OUR WOOD IS SOLD UNTO US— _Our wood came at a price upon our necks;_ Lamentations 5:5. _We are under persecution,_ &c. Houbigant. That numbers of the Israelites had no wood growing on their own lands...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. WE HAVE DRUNKEN OUR WATER FOR MONEY. The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of...
ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
OUR WATER... OUR WOOD. — The point of the complaint lies in the possessive pronoun. The Chaldæan conquerors were in possession of the country, and the very necessaries of life, which had been looked o...
מֵימֵ֨ינוּ֙ בְּ כֶ֣סֶף שָׁתִ֔ינוּ עֵצֵ֖ינוּ בִּ...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures that have...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
We have drank our (b) water for money; our wood is sold to us. (b) Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage....
_Water. Even this was not given for nothing._...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We ha...
The Prophet here relates, that the people were denuded, that they labored under the want of water and of wood. He does not say that they were only deprived of corn and wine, he does not complain that...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
WE HAVE DRUNKEN OUR WATER FOR MONEY,.... They who in their own land, which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, had wells of water of their own, and water freely and in abundance, n...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Ver. 4. _We have drunk our water for money._] Fire, water, and air are common good, _quae iure naturae sunt omnium et singulorum,_ saith...
_Consider, and behold our reproach_ Which we suffer from the heathen nations. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers_ Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. _We are orpha...
We have drunken our water for money, namely, that which was rightfully their own; OUR WOOD IS SOLD UNTO US, they were obliged to buy the very necessaries of life from the conquerors or pay exorbitant...
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
IS SOLD UNTO US: _ Heb._ cometh for price...
1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient u...
Lamentations 5:4 pay H3701 water H4325 drink H8354 (H8804) wood H6086 price H935 (H8799) H4242...
We have drunk our water for money, Our wood is sold to us. Previously the water from their springs and rivers, and from their own cisterns, had been freely available to them. Now they were being char...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
_We have drunken our water for money, our wood is sold unto us._ ZION’S SUFFERINGS 1. Common necessaries denied by adversaries. Fire and water are two necessary elements, but though God in nature hav...
_Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us._ AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSION The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his God...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. OUR INHERITANCE, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which his descendants had held possession for ge...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezekiel 4:9; Isaiah 3:1...
Sold — Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea....