Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Lamentations 4:7
Nazarites — Her Nazarites in this place signify her separated ones, who either in respect of birth, education, estate, or place of magistracy, were distinguished from the rest of the people.
Nazarites — Her Nazarites in this place signify her separated ones, who either in respect of birth, education, estate, or place of magistracy, were distinguished from the rest of the people.
Verse 7. _HER NAZARITES WERE PURER THAN SNOW_] נזיר _nazir_ does not always signify a _person separated_ under a _religious vow_; it sometimes denotes what is _chief_ or _eminent_. It is applied to _J...
The Nazarites from their temperance were remarkable for health and personal beauty, besides being held in religious veneration. RUBIES - Or, corals. THEIR POLISHING WAS OF SAPPHIRE - Or, their shape...
CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed: How is the gold become dim...
LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
_nobles_ probably right, as in Genesis 49:26; Deuteronomy 33:16 (in which places mg. renders "princes") as against the more frequent sense _Nazirites_(as mg. here). _rubies_ mg. _corals_. _their poli...
Cp. Lamentations 4:1. The emaciation produced by famine and hardship is vividly pourtrayed. Cp. Job 19:20; Job 30:30....
THEY WERE MORE RUDDY, &C.— _They were brighter in body than pearls,_ &c. See Bochart, lib. 2: cap. 6....
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A RUINED KINGDOM Lamentations 4:1-22 The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s 1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines instea...
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: HER NAZARITES - literally, separated ones (Numbers 6:1.) T...
4:7 Nazarites (f-2) Or 'princes.'...
ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom. In...
NAZARITES] RV 'nobles,' probably alluding to the Rechabites, famous at that time for their purity and temperance (Jeremiah 35)....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 4 JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK. V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has changed! The stones of the *temple...
HER NAZARITES... — The word has been rendered “princes” by some commentators, on the ground that it means literally those who are “separated” from their brethren (Genesis 49:26; Deuteronomy 33:16), wh...
זַכּ֤וּ נְזִירֶ֨יהָ֙ מִ שֶּׁ֔לֶג צַח֖וּ מֵ חָ
CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two...
The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
Old ivory. Whiteness shews its age. (Pliny, [Natural History?] iii. 8.) --- As it grows old it turns yellow, and loses much of its value. But the ancients had the art of dyeing it scarlet. (Virgil, \'...
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they e...
_THE NAZARITES_ ‘Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk.’ Lamentations 4:7 I. THE IDEAL.—The wealth of a great people consists not so much in its material possessions, but i...
Here the Prophet speaks of Nazarites, by whom we know the worship of God was honored; for they, who were not content with the common observance of the Law, consecrated themselves to God, that by their...
Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
HER NAZARITES WERE PURER THAN SNOW,.... Such who separated themselves by a vow to the Lord, and abstained from drinking wine and strong drink, and by a moderate diet, and often washing themselves, as...
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire: Ver. 7. _Her Nazarites._] Who served God in a singular way...
_Her Nazarites were purer than snow_ It seems the word, נזיריה, ought not to be translated here _Nazarites_, or those who were _separated_ by a vow to God; but _princes_, or _chief men:_ so Waterland...
JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
Her Nazarites, her princes or rulers, separated from the rest of the people by virtue of the dignity of their office, WERE PURER THAN SNOW, THEY WERE WHITER THAN MILK, THEY WERE MORE RUDDY IN BODY THA...
1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
By NAZARITES in this place the most and best interpreters do not understand persons who were of the religious order of Nazarites, the laws of which order are to be read NUM 6, and of whom we read AMOS...
Lamentations 4:7 Nazirites H5139 brighter H2141 (H8804) snow H7950 whiter H6705 (H8804) milk H2461 ruddy H119
THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 4:1). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (precious) sto...
CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah. Sins of the leaders acknowledged. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the mea...
Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:7 MORE RUDDY THAN CORAL. Their bodies were perfectly formed and healthy. BEAUTY OF THEIR FORM. Their faces were handsome....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to their instincts...
THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING. EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 4:1 HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas f
The fourth lamentation: How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
1 Samuel 16:12; Amos 2:11; Amos 2:12; Daniel 1:15; Judges 13:5;...