Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Lamentations 2:20
Whom — Not the Heathen, but to thy own people. Women — Wilt thou suffer women to satisfy their hunger with the fruit of their own bodies?
Whom — Not the Heathen, but to thy own people. Women — Wilt thou suffer women to satisfy their hunger with the fruit of their own bodies?
Verse Lamentations 2:20. _CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS_] Perhaps the best sense of this difficult verse is this: "Thou art our _Father_, we are thy _children_; wilt thou _destroy thy own offs...
The sense is: “See, Yahweh, and look! whom hast Thou treated thus? Shall women eat their fruit - children whom they must still carry?” the swaddled child being one still needing to be nursed and borne...
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...
CONSIDER. Put. colon after "consider", and an"? "after "this". SHALL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53). App-92. SPAN. See App-51....
Here begins the prayer made in response to the prophet's exhortation. The questions are rhetorical and mean (although the verbs are in the future), Wilt thou look with unconcern at the things which _h...
CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS— _Whether thou hast done the like to any one._ Houbigant....
IV. THE PROPHET'S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:20-22 TRANSLATION (20) Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this! Shall women eat their offspring, babes who are carried in the ar...
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? SHALL T...
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...
TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS] viz. to His own chosen people. CHILDREN OF A SPAN LONG] RV 'the children that are dandled in the hands': op. Lamentations 2:22; Jeremiah 19:9....
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...
TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS — _i.e.,_ not to a heathen nation, but to the people whom Jehovah Himself had chosen. SHALL THE WOMEN EAT THEIR FRUIT. — Atrocities of this nature had been predicted in Lev...
רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽ הַבִּ֔יטָה לְ מִ֖י עֹולַ֣ל
THE CALL TO PRAYER Lamentations 2:18 IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its transitions are very abrupt....
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...
_Dealt. Literally, "gathered grapes," chap. i. 12. (Haydock) --- Long; quite small, Psalm xxxviii. 9. This has been denounced, chap. xix. 9., and Deuteronomy xxviii. 53. (Calmet) It took place at Sama...
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach i...
Here, also, Jeremiah dictates words, or a form of prayer to the Jews. And this complaint availed to excite pity, that God had thus afflicted, not strangers, but the people whom he had adopted. Interpr...
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...
BEHOLD, O LORD, AND CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS,.... On whom thou hast brought these calamities of famine and sword; not upon thine enemies, but upon thine own people, that are called by thy...
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Ver....
_Behold, O Lord, to whom thou hast done this_ To thy people, for whom thou hast formerly expressed so much tenderness and affection. Jerusalem seems to be here introduced speaking. _Shall the women ea...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom Thou hast done this, so the prayer of the city's inhabitants now arises. SHALL THE WOMEN EAT THEIR FRUIT, AND CHILDREN OF A SPAN LONG? in revolting cannibalism cau...
SPAN LONG?: Or, swadled with their hands...
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...
CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS; that is, not to heathen, who never owned thee, nor were called by thy name, but to thine own people, called thy portion and thine heritage; let thy former relatio...
Lamentations 2:20 See H7200 (H8798) LORD H3068 consider H5027 (H8685) done H5953 (H8782) this H3541 women
THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18). The change between Lame...
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...
_Behold, O Ford, and consider to whom Thou hast done this._ FERVENT PRAYER 1. The only way of remedy in our greatest miseries is to call upon God in fervent prayer. (1) It declareth that we are hum...
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 2:20 WITH WHOM HAVE YOU DEALT THUS? Jerusalem was God’s chosen city (1 Kings 9:1), yet God has judged her ...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ר) Lamentations 2:20. The prayer is put into words correspondent with the circumstances. SEE, JEHOVAH, AND BEHOLD TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS, to the city called thine, to the peop...
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 15:3; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Amos 4:10; Deuteronomy 28:50;...