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Verse 10. _SIT UPON THE GROUND_] Lamentations 1:1.
_KEEP SILENCE_] No words can express their sorrows: small griefs are
eloquent, great ones dumb....
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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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GIRDED... WITH SACKCLOTH. The outward symbol of mourning....
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In this and the two following _vv_. we have the picture of the state
of things in Jerusalem after the king, etc. (Lamentations 2:9) had
been carried into exile. The half-starving people are left behin...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
A BROKEN PEOPLE
Lamentations 2:1-22
In content, form and theology chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter
1. Like chapter 1, the second chapter is also a national lament but
the...
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep
silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their...
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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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THE ELDERS.. SIT UPON THE GROUND] i.e. in banishment.
11-19. Zion's bitter sorrow and lamentation....
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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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THE ELDERS OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION... — The despondency of the
people is indicated by the outward signs of woe. Instead of taking
counsel for the emergency, the elders sit, like Job’s friends (Job
2:1...
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יֵשְׁב֨וּ לָ † אָ֤רֶץ יִדְּמוּ֙
זִקְנֵ֣י בַת...
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THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN
Lamentations 2:10
PASSION and poetry, when they fire the imagination, do more than
personify individual material things. By fusing the separate objects
in the crucible of a co...
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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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_Ancients, even magistrates. (Calmet) --- Canitiem multo deformat
pulvere. (Virgil, \'c6neid x.)_...
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How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The L...
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The Prophet here strikingly represents the grievousness of the
people’s calamity, when he says, that _the elders_, as in hopeless
despair, were lying _on the ground_, that they _cast dust on their
hea...
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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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THE ELDERS OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION SIT ON THE GROUND, [AND] KEEP
SILENCE,.... Who used to sit in the gate on thrones of judgment, and
passed sentence in causes tried before them; or were wont to give...
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep
silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down thei...
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_The elders, &c., sit upon the ground, and keep silence _
These and the other expressions of this and the two following verses
betoken the deepest mourning and sorrow. _Mine eyes do fail with
tears_ M...
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The elders of the daughter of Zion, the leaders of the Jewish Church,
SIT UPON THE GROUND AND KEEP SILENCE, they have no counsel to give,
chiefly because they are dumb with grief; THEY HAVE CAST UP DU...
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A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
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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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Sitting upon the ground, keeping silence, throwing dust on their
heads, girding themselves with sackcloth, hanging down the head, were
all of them postures, and actions, and gestures of mourners. The...
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Lamentations 2:10 elders H2205 daughter H1323 Zion H6726 Sit H3427
(H8799) ground H776 silence H1826 (H8799
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THE SAD STATE OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:10).
The prophet now describes in retrospect the sad state of the people of
Jerusalem during and after the terrible siege. The elders were in
m...
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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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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(י) Lamentations 2:10. Two classes, who were exponents of the
intelligence and joy of the people, prostrated like the rest, are no
longer capable of acting their parts. THEY SIT ON...
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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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2 Samuel 13:19; Amos 5:13; Amos 8:13; Amos 8:3; Ezekiel 27:31;...
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The virgins — The whole city is in a mournful posture....