Lamentations 1:1
A widow — She that had a king, or rather a God, that was an husband to her, now was forsaken of God, and her king taken from her.... [ Continue Reading ]
A widow — She that had a king, or rather a God, that was an husband to her, now was forsaken of God, and her king taken from her.... [ Continue Reading ]
Because — Because of the servitude and oppression exercised among them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally; keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when they ought to be set at liberty. The straits — Those that pursued them overtook them in places where they could no... [ Continue Reading ]
She — Persons of all ages and ranks are in bitterness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Pleasant things — Has laid violent hands on them. The things of the sanctuary were always pleasant things to those that feared God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bread — Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and honey, they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given — And gave any thing for something to satisfy their hunger. Vile — Miserable or contemptible.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is it nothing — The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish church.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fire — A judgment as consuming, and afflictive as fire.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is bound — Put upon my neck on account of my transgressions. Wreathed — My punishments are twisted as cords; I have a complication of judgments upon me, sword, famine, pestilence, captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
An assembly — God had called an assembly of Chaldeans against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it. Trodden — God had trodden upon the Jews as men use to stamp grapes in a wine — press.... [ Continue Reading ]
The comforter — God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jerusalem — Is become loathsome and filthy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deceived — They did not answer my expectation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Death — By famine and pestilence.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The neighbouring nations. Like me — But thou hast foretold their destruction also, and hast by me proclaimed it: and thou shalt in that day bring them into as sad a condition as I am in now.... [ Continue Reading ]