Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Lamentations 2:4
He — That is, God, (whom by their sins they had provoked and made their enemy) behaved himself as an enemy. And slew — All their young men, and maidens who were pleasant to look upon.
He — That is, God, (whom by their sins they had provoked and made their enemy) behaved himself as an enemy. And slew — All their young men, and maidens who were pleasant to look upon.
Verse Lamentations 2:4. _HE HATH BENT HIS BOW - HE STOOD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND_] This is the attitude of the archer. He first bends his bow; then sets his arrow upon the string; and, lastly, placing his...
HE STOOD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND ... - i. e. that right hand so often stretched out to help now grasped a weapon ready for Judah’s destruction. WERE PLEASANT - Or, was “pleasant.” Put full stop after “ey...
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...
HIS BOW. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ ALL THAT WERE PLEASANT TO THE EYE. Hebrew. all the desires of the eye; "eye" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct), for the things des...
Jehovah is likened to an archer (cp. Job 16:13), aiming His bow with deadly effect against the goodliest of the people. The metre is incomplete, a part of the third line having apparently been lost. W...
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...
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fir...
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...
IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION] The division of the v. in AV is faulty. The colon after Zion should stand after eye, as in RV....
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...
HE STOOD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND... — The point of the phrase is that the “right hand,” the natural symbol of divine power, which had been of old stretched forth to protect, was now seen shooting the arro...
דָּרַ֨ךְ קַשְׁתֹּ֜ו כְּ אֹויֵ֗ב נִצָּ֤ב יְמִינֹו֙...
GOD AS AN ENEMY Lamentations 2:1 THE elegist, as we have seen, attributes the troubles of the Jews to the will and. action of God. In the second poem he even ventures further, and with daring logic p...
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...
He (f) hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury lik...
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...
He employs now another metaphor, that God, who was wont to defend his people, now took up arms against them; for stating a part for the whole, he includes in the _bow _every other weapon. When, theref...
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...
HE HATH BENT HIS BOW LIKE AN ENEMY,.... God sometimes appears as if he was an enemy to his people, when he is not, by his conduct and behaviour; by the dispensations of his providence they take him to...
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fi...
_The Lord hath swallowed up the habitations_, &c. Without showing any pity or concern for them. _He hath thrown down the strong holds_, &c. Hath suffered the enemies to batter down their fortification...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
He hath bent His bow like an enemy, attacking them with a deadly weapon; HE STOOD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AS AN ADVERSARY, wielding a ruthless sword, AND SLEW ALL THAT WERE PLEASANT TO THE EYE, all that c...
PLEASANT TO THE EYE: _ Heb._ all the desirable of the eye...
1-9 A sad representation is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the notice seems mostly to refer to the hand of the Lord in their calamities. Yet God is not an enemy to h...
That is, God (whom by their sins they had provoked and made their enemy) behaved himself as an enemy, bending his bow, and stretching out his right hand, and slew their young men and maidens, who were...
Lamentations 2:4 Standing H5324 (H8737) enemy H341 (H8802) bent H1869 (H8804) bow H7198 hand H3225 adversary...
THE LORD'S ANGER IS REVEALED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:1). In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger' (antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destruction on...
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...
_He hath bent His bow like an enemy._ GOD AS AN ENEMY If God is tormenting His people in fierce anger, it must be because He is their enemy--so the sad-hearted patriot reasons. First, we have the ear...
_How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in ms anger._ CHASTISEMENTS 1. It is our duty to strive with ourselves to be affected with the miseries of God’s people. 2. The chastise...
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...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (א) Lamentations 2:1. The poet sees nature as if it were in commotion. A storm-cloud piles up over Jerusalem, shrouding with its gloom even the most commanding summit. But it is not...
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...
2 Chronicles 34:21; 2 Chronicles 34:25; Ezekiel 22:22; Ezekiel 24:25;...