His tabernacle — His temple. The places — The synagogues. The king — By the king and the priests are meant persons of greatest rank and eminency, though it is thought here is a special reference to Zedekiah the king of Judah, and Seraiah who was the high priest; the former of which was miserably handled, the latter slain.
Verse 6. _AS_ IF IT WERE OF _A GARDEN_] "As it were the garden of his own hedging." - _Blayney_. _THE LORD HATH CAUSED THE SOLEMN FEASTS_] By delivering us up into the hands of the enemy our religiou...
TABERNACLE - Or, covert Jeremiah 25:38, i. e. such a tent of boughs as was put up at the Feast of Tabernacles. The words mean, “the Lord hath (as) violently destroyed His booth. as a man might tear do...
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...
TABERNACLE. dwelling, or pavilion. Hebrew. _sok._ Occurs only here. AS IF IT WERE OF. GARDEN: or, as [a booth in]. garden [is destroyed] See note on Isaiah 1:8. Septuagint reads "like. vine". Ginsbur...
_And he hath violently … of a garden_ The expression is obscure. The natural sense of the Eng. would be that He has taken away His tabernacle (the Temple) out of Jerusalem as unconcernedly as a pleasu...
HE HATH—TAKEN AWAY HIS TABERNACLE— _He hath laid waste his tabernacle as a garden._ Houbigant. See Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 5:5....
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...
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,...
2:6 assembly. (b-18) feast (b-23) Or 'solemn assembly.' The same word appears in the original for 'assembly,' ch. 1.15 and here, and set feast. Numbers 10:10 ....
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...
AS _if it were of_ a GARDEN] i.e. God has destroyed His Temple as easily as a man removes a vintage booth, which has served its purpose, from a garden (Isaiah 1:18)....
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 HATH VIOLENTLY TAKEN AWAY HIS TABERNACLE... — The noun represents a “booth” or “shed,” like those erected in the Feast of Tabernacles. Jehovah is represented as laying waste that “tabernacle,” _i.e...
וַ יַּחְמֹ֤ס כַּ † גַּן֙ שֻׂכֹּ֔ו שִׁחֵ֖ת...
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...
_Tent: the temple, with the same indifference as if it had been a hut, built to guard the fruit of a garden, Isaias v. 5., and Psalm lxxix. 13. --- Sabbaths. The Jews rested, but could offer no sacrif...
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...
Then he says first, that _his tabernacle had been overthrown by God_. They who render it “cottage” extenuate too much what is spoken of; nor does the Prophet simply compare the sanctuary of God to a c...
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...
AND HE HATH VIOLENTLY TAKEN AWAY HIS TABERNACLE, AS [IF IT WERE] OF A GARDEN,.... The house of the sanctuary or temple, as the Targum; which was demolished at once with great force and violence, and a...
_And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion...
_He hath violently taken away his tabernacle as of a garden_ The Vulgate reads, _dissipavit, quasi hortum, tentorium suum; he hath dissolved, broke in pieces, scattered_, or _laid waste, his tent as a...
And He hath violently taken away His Tabernacle as if it were of a garden, the Temple being subjected to ruin like a garden which the owner converts into some other kind of plot if it no longer suits...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
TABERNACLE: Or, hedge...
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...
The word translated TABERNACLE (say some) signifies a _hedge or fence_, and they would have it here so translated, and so the phrase should denote God's withdrawing his protection from the Jews; but i...
Lamentations 2:6 violence H2554 (H8799) tabernacle H7900 garden H1588 destroyed H7843 (H8765) assembly H4150 LORD...
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 violently taken away His tabernacle._ DIVINE DESTRUCTION Jehovah is here represented as throwing down His own temple, as treating it as if it were a temporary shelter, as disregarding all it...
_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...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:6 LAID WASTE HIS BOOTH. Destroyed the temple, the place where his name and his presence dwell (1 Kings 9:1)....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ו) Lamentations 2:6. The dwelling-place of Jehovah on Mount Zion, which He claims as His own possession, with all its appointed services, has shared in the tribulations. HE HAS TRE...
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...
Ezekiel 12:12; Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:18; Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 43:28