THE MISERIES OF JERUSALEM EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This elegy may be divided into two chief parts. The first, Lamentations 1:1, exhibits the mournful condition of an unnamed city, overtaken by various calamities, with a break, at Lamentations 1:9; Lamentations 1:11, by an ejaculatory appeal to Jehovah. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:1 present the city as she is in sharp contrast with what she was, and as an object of deep distress, on account of her sins and their penalties. The verses have a pictorial illustration in the medal struck by the Roman Emperor Titus in commemoration of the capture... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ג) Lamentations 1:3. JUDAH, the population of the whole territory, with that of Jerusalem, IS TAKEN INTO EXILE, a subjugated, impoverished remnant being left. FROM AFFLICTION, the same expression occurs in Exodus 3:17 and Psalms 108:4, AND FROM MUCH SERVITUDE, NOT, as might seem... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ד) Lamentations 1:4 introduces another view personifying the religious condition: not the banished people, not the fallen city, but the dwelling-place of the Holy One of Israel is forsaken and overthrown. THE WAYS OF ZION, not the streets in Jerusalem leading up to the Temple, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ה) Lamentations 1:5. HER ADVERSARIES ARE BECOME THE HEAD, AS WAS threatened if unfaithful to the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:44); HER ENEMIES PROSPER, are in peace, and rest secure, knowing that all resistance is over, so completely has she been crushed. This was brought about not by t... [ Continue Reading ]
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 as one who has been _removed_ (Authorised Version) as a captive from her native place, but as one se... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persistent sin in sight of her righteous Lord, who will deal out justice to all transgressors, 17–22. (ל) La... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persistent sin in sight of her righteous Lord, who will deal out justice to all transgressors, 17–22. (צ) L... [ Continue Reading ]