Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Lamentations 5:3
We — We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.
We — We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.
OUR MOTHERS ARE AS WIDOWS - The particle “as” suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to that of fatherless orphans or wives just bereaved of thei...
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
_orphans and fatherless_ the fathers being in exile and the mothers thus "as widows," without protection....
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. WE ARE ... FATHERLESS - our whole land is full of orphans (Calvin). Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by thee our "Father" (). (Grotiu...
ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...
OUR MOTHERS _are_ AS WIDOWS] i.e. without protection and support. 5 OUR NECKS _are_ UNDER PERSECUTION] RV 'our pursuers are upon our necks.'...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
OUR MOTHERS ARE AS WIDOWS — _i.e.,_ their husbands, though living, were carried into exile, and they were as destitute as though they had been deprived of them by death. The Chaldee paraphrase gives t...
יְתֹומִ֤ים הָיִ֨ינוּ֙ _וְ_†_אֵ֣ין_† אָ֔ב אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ כְּ...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures that have...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
_Father. Many had none surviving, and all had lost their king. (Worthington)_...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We ha...
Here the Prophet not only speaks in the person of the whole people, but utters also the groans and complaints of each; for this could not have been suitable to the whole Church, as he speaks of father...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
WE ARE ORPHANS AND FATHERLESS,.... In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a civil sense, their king being taken from them; and in...
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. Ver. 3. _We are orphans and fatherless._] And so are become thy clients, just objects of thy pity. Hos 14:3...
_Consider, and behold our reproach_ Which we suffer from the heathen nations. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers_ Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. _We are orpha...
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
We are orphans and fatherless, like those that have been deprived of their natural protectors; OUR MOTHERS ARE AS WIDOWS, this statement bringing out the fact that large numbers of men, the defenders...
1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient u...
We are all of us without a king, (who is the common father of the country,) we are deprived of thy fatherly care and protection, many young children amongst us are left without an earthly parent. OUR...
Lamentations 5:3 orphans H3490 waifs H369 H1 mothers H517 widows H490 Exodus 22:24;...
We are orphans and fatherless, Our mothers are as widows. They were orphans and fatherless, and their mothers were as widows because the menfolk had been carried off to Babylon, or had been drafted...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
_Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us._ AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSION The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his God...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. OUR INHERITANCE, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which his descendants had held possession for ge...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
Exodus 22:24; Hosea 14:3; Jeremiah 18:21...