Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Lamentations 1:15
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.
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.
Verse 15. _CALLED AN ASSEMBLY_] The Chaldean army, composed of various nations, which God commissioned to destroy Jerusalem....
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lamentations 1:13 IT PREVAILETH - Or, hath subdued. HE HATH TURNED ME BACK - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to es...
CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once sh...
LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...
MIGHTY MEN. valiant ones. Hebrew. _'abir_. Not the same word as in Lamentations 3:1; Lamentations 3:27; Lamentations 3:35;...
Notice the accumulation of figures under which the destruction of the city is represented, fiery rain, toils of a net, a blocking of the way, a yoke laid on the neck, a sacrificial banquet, the treadi...
_hath called a solemn assembly_ or, sacrificial banquet. Cp. Jeremiah 46:10; Isaiah 34:6; Ezekiel 39:17 ff.; Zephaniah 1:7 f. The festival is not
See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....
THE LORD HATH TRODDEN THE VIRGIN, THE DAUGHTER OF JUDAH, AS IN A WINE-PRESS— _As in a wine-vat._ This metaphor is easily to be understood of causing such an effusion of blood in Jerusalem, as to resem...
II. A LAMENT BY THE CITY Lamentations 1:12-22 In Lamentations 1:12-22 the lonely, tearful widow takes up her lament. She appeals to passers-by to take note of the incomparable agony of Zion ...
The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wi...
1:15 assembly (c-19) Or 'a solemn assembly.'...
ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intimated...
HE HATH CALLED AN ASSEMBLY] lit. 'an appointed time': i.e. a religious festival (Leviticus 23:4); not for Israel, however, but for the enemy, to celebrate the defeat of Zion's soldiers....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT LAMENTATIONS We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...
TRODDEN UNDER FOOT. — Better, _hath made contemptible,_ as those who are weighed in the balance and found wanting. ALL MY MIGHTY MEN... — The adjective is used elsewhere of bulls (Psalms 22:12; Isaiah...
סִלָּ֨ה כָל ־אַבִּירַ֤י ׀ אֲדֹנָי֙ בְּ קִרְבִּ֔י...
ZION'S APPEAL Lamentations 1:12 IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle of the s...
In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...
The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a...
_Mighty. Hebrew, "magnificent" princes, (Luke xxii. 25.) or warriors. --- Time of vengeance. All in animated. Hebrew also, "a troop" of Chaldeans, chap. ii. 22. --- Juda. God, as the first cause, puni...
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my tra...
She first says, that _all _her _valiant _men had been _trodden underfoot_. Now we know how much the Jews trusted in their men even to the very time when they were wholly subdued. As then they had shew...
There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...
THE LORD HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT ALL MY MIGHTY [MEN] IN THE MIDST OF ME,.... As a causeway is trodden; or as mire is trodden under foot in the streets; so were the mighty and valiant men, the soldiers...
The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a...
_From above hath he sent fire into my bones_ Calamities as consuming and as afflictive as fire in the bones. _He hath spread a net for my feet_ Hath brought me into a most miserable condition, in whic...
THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me, slaying them while they were engaged in the defense of the city; HE HATH CALLED AN ASSEMBLY AGAINST ME TO CRUSH MY YOUNG MEN, the...
the virgin...as in a winepress: Or, the winepress of the virgin, etc....
12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...
IN THE MIDST OF ME, may be interpreted either as _pleonastical_, or as denoting the place in which they lost their valiant men, viz. in the midst of the city during the siege, not in the field. HE HAT...
Lamentations 1:15 Lord H136 underfoot H5541 (H8765) mighty H47 midst H7130 called H7121 (H8804) assembly H4150
JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BEHOLD HER PITIABLE STATE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). Lamentations 1:12 (Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see, If there be any sorrow like to...
JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which Jerusalem...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah. Appeal to God for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon...
This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...
_The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men._ SUPREME PENALTIES 1. When God meaneth to afflict us, He will spoil us of all our helps wherein we may have any confidence. 2. God can as easily...
_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_ ZION’S APPEAL 1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy. Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be passi...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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 persiste...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations. The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it appear...
2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 25:4; 2 Kings 9:33; Daniel 3:13; Deut
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Lamentations 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...