Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Lamentations 5:5
As the generality of prisoners of war are made slaves, and put to hard and incessant labour, so in probability the most of the Jews were at first at least.
As the generality of prisoners of war are made slaves, and put to hard and incessant labour, so in probability the most of the Jews were at first at least.
Verse Lamentations 5:5. _OUR NECKS_ ARE _UNDER PERSECUTION_] We feel the yoke of our bondage; we are driven to our work like the _bullock_, which has a yoke upon his neck....
OUR NECKS ... - i. e. we were pursued so actively that our enemies seemed to be leaning over our necks ready to seize us. WE LABOR - We were wearied, “there was no rest for us:” being chased incessan...
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...
OUR NECKS ARE UNDER PERSECUTION. Our pursuers are upon our necks. PERSECUTION. pursuers. AND. Some codices, with two early printed editions and Syriac, read this "and" in the text. HAVE NO REST. no...
_Our pursuers are upon our necks_ The expression is a strange one, as applied to those remaining in the land. Since in the original the consonants of "upon" are identical with those for "yoke," we may...
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...
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. OUR NECKS ARE UNDER PERSECUTION - literally, On our necks we are persecuted - i:e., men tread on our necks (; ; cf. , where Joshua is des...
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 NECKS ARE UNDER PERSECUTION. — Better, _were under pursuit: i.e.,_ the enemies were pressing close on them, always, as in our English phrase, at their very heels....
עַ֤ל צַוָּארֵ֨נוּ֙ נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ יָגַ֖עְנוּ _וְ_†_לֹ֥א_† הֽוּנַֽח...
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...
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...
Here he says that the people were oppressed with a grievous bondage. It is, indeed, a metaphorical expression when he says, that people suffered persecution on their necks. Enemies may sometimes be tr...
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...
OUR NECKS [ARE] UNDER PERSECUTION,.... A yoke of hard servitude and bondage was put upon their necks, as Jarchi interprets it; which they were forced to submit unto: or, "upon our necks we are pursued...
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. Ver. 5. _Our necks are under persecution._] For that we would not stoop to the sweet yoke of thine obedience, but held it heavy, now,...
_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...
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
Our necks are under persecution, their pursuers and tormentors being continually upon them, driving them headlong; WE LABOR AND HAVE NO REST, no matter how tired they were, rest was denied them....
OUR NECKS ARE UNDER PERSECUTION: _ Heb._ on our necks are we persecuted...
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 5:5 pursue H7291 (H8738) heels H6677 labor H3021 (H8804) rest H5117 (H8717) Our necks are under persecution - Heb. On
Our pursuers are on our necks, We are weary, and have no rest. The ‘pursuers' are probably the men set to watch over them as they went about their working day, or as they followed other pursuits. The...
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...
_Our necks are under persecution, we labour, and have no rest._ ZION’S SUFFERINGS 1. The words explained. This is the miserable servitude of a conquered people, this is the insulting and domineering...
_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....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:5 PURSUERS. Probably persons to whom they owe money, or the foreign officers who rule over them. ARE AT OUR NECKS. Always desiring either payment or more work....
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...
Acts 15:10; Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:65; Deuteronomy 28:66;...