Mine eyes — This whole verse is but expressive of the prophets great affliction for the miseries come upon the Jews. He wept himself almost blind. Bowels — His passion had disturbed his bodily humours, that his bowels were troubled. Liver — His gall lying under his liver. All these are expressions of great affliction and sorrow. Swoon — During the famine, occasioned by the long siege.
Verse 11. _SWOON IN THE STREETS OF THE CITY._] Through the excess of the famine....
TROUBLED - See the margin reference note. LIVER - As the heart was regarded by the Jews as the seat of the intellect, so the liver (or bowels) was supposed to be the seat of the emotions. The pouring...
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...
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...
TROUBLED. moved, or in ferment. LIVER. Figure of speech for the seat of the emotions. Compare Job 16:13. CHILDREN. babes....
Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
_my bowels are troubled_ See on ch. Lamentations 1:20. _My liver is poured upon the earth_ The liver seems to have been looked upon, as were the rest of the vitals, as the seat of the emotions, and he...
MY LIVER, &C.— Bishop Lowth explains it, "My vitals seem to be dissolved, and have lost all their strength." See Job 16:13.Psalms 22:14. The LXX. read _My glory is cast down upon the ground._ That the...
II. THE PROPHET'S SINCERE SYMPATHY FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:11-16 TRANSLATION (11) MY eyes are spent with weeping, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is poured out to the ground because of t...
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets...
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...
The scene of Jerusalem's woes is to the poet heartrending. MY LIVER] a phrase not found elsewhere in OT., but expressive of strong emotion: cp. our English use of 'spleen' and 'humorous.'...
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...
MY LIVER IS POURED UPON THE EARTH... — The phrase is not found elsewhere, but admits of an easy explanation. The “liver,” like the “heart” and the “bowels,” is thought of as the centre of all intense...
כָּל֨וּ בַ † דְּמָעֹ֤ות עֵינַי֙ חֳמַרְמְר֣וּ מֵעַ֔י...
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...
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...
_Earth, by an overflowing of the bile, occasioned by grief, Job xvi. 14. (Calmet)_...
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...
The Prophet himself now speaks, and says that his _eyes were consumed with tears_, while weeping on account of the calamities of the people: even in the deepest grief tears at length dry up; but when...
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...
MINE EYES DO FAIL WITH TEARS,.... According to Aben Ezra, everyone of the elders before mentioned said this; but rather they are the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, who had wept his eyes dry, or rather...
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o...
_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...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
Mine eyes do fail with tears, being spent, worn out, with weeping, MY BOWELS ARE TROUBLED, his heart being most deeply affected, MY LIVER IS POURED UPON THE EARTH, THAT IS, since the liver was conside...
SWOON: Or, faint...
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...
This whole verse is but expressive of the prophet's great affliction for the miseries come upon the Jews: he wept himself almost blind, his passion had disturbed his bodily humours, that his bowels we...
Lamentations 2:11 eyes H5869 fail H3615 (H8804) tears H1832 heart H4578 troubled H2560 (H8777) bile H3516
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...
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...
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...
_Mine eyes do fail with tears._ THE MISERIES OF THE CHURCH TAKEN TO HEART 1. The true ministers of God do take the miseries of the Church to heart in the greatest measure. 2. Our sorrow, humiliatio...
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...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:11 MY BILE. Literally, “my liver,” that is, emotions. DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE. A term of endearment for Jerusalem ...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (כ) Lamentations 2:11. So exasperating is his misery that he feels as if organic parts of his body were dismembered. MY EYES FAIL WITH TEARS, MY BOWELS ARE TROUBLED, MY LIVER IS POU...
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.
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...
1 Samuel 30:4; Isaiah 22:4; Isaiah 38:14; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 4: