Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Lamentations 5:9
The sword — The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.
The sword — The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.
Verse 9. _WE GAT OUR BREAD WITH_ THE PERIL OF _OUR LIVES_] They could not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to get the necessaries of life, without being harassed and plundered by maraud...
WE GAT - Or, We get “our bread at the peril of our lives.” This verse apparently refers to those who were left in the land, and who in gathering in such fruits as remained, were exposed to incursions...
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...
WE GAT OUR BREAD. We brought home our bread. LIVES. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "souls". SWORD OF THE WILDERNESS. "The sword" is put, by Figu...
_We get our bread_ The reference is to the bands of wild Arabs (Bedaween), who plundered them as they ventured from the shelter of the city to reap the harvest or to tend the cattle or sheep of their...
WITH THE PERIL OF OUR LIVES, &C.— I can no otherwise understand this, than that on account of their weak and defenceless state the people were continually exposed, while they followed their necessary...
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 gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. WE GAT OUR BREAD WITH THE PERIL OF OUR LIVES - i:e., those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldea...
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...
WE GAT] RV 'We got,' lit. 'we bring in.' BECAUSE OF THE SWORD OF THE WILDERNESS] alluding to the raids of the Bedouins, who may have fallen upon the remnant in their attempts to snatch a little food....
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....
THE SWORD OF THE WILDERNESS. — Another element of suffering is hinted at. Those who were left in the land were attacked, as they gathered in their scanty harvest, by the nomad tribes of the wilderness...
בְּ נַפְשֵׁ֨נוּ֙ נָבִ֣יא לַחְמֵ֔נוּ מִ פְּנֵ֖י...
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...
We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword (e) of the wilderness. (e) Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our neces...
_Sword. Any one might kill us._...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
The word חרב, _chereb_, means drought as well as sword. As the Prophet is speaking of famine and the desert,, I have no doubt but that dryness or drought is _sword _the word means here; and I wonder t...
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 GAT OUR BREAD [WITH THE PERIL OF] OUR LIVES,.... This seems to refer to the time of the siege when they privately went out of the city to get in some provision, but went in danger of their lives:...
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. Ver. 9. _We gat our bread with the peril of our lives._] So did our good ancestors the bread of life, while thei...
_Our fathers have sinned, and are not_ Death hath secured our fathers from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Jere...
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness, for the country, sparsely populated as it was after the deportation of the exiles, was open to the ravages of nomad...
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...
The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so as they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them, and what victuals they got they adventured their lives for, during the time o...
Lamentations 5:9 get H935 (H8686) bread H3899 lives H5315 Because H6440 sword H2719 wilderness H4057...
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. When they left the safety of their cities and went into the countryside, which was now bare and neglected, in order...
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....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:9 SWORD. A metaphor for thieves (2 Kings 13:20) or famine ...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:6. Judæa was on the verge of famine through the foragings of the invaders, and, under the ominous shadow of starvation, TO EGYPT WE HAVE GIVEN THE HAND, _i.e.,_ implo...
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...
2 Samuel 23:17; Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel 12:19; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezeki