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Verse 19. _ARISE, CRY OUT IN THE NIGHT_] This seems to refer to
Jerusalem besieged. Ye who keep the night watches, pour out your
hearts before the Lord, instead of calling the time of night, c. or,
wh...
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IN - (or at) the beginning of the watches “At the beginning of each
night-watch” means all the night through. The Hebrews divided the
night into three watches....
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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...
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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...
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THE LORD*. This is the reading in some Codices, with one early printed
edition....
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III. THE PROPHET'S EXHORTATION TO HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:17-19
TRANSLATION
(17) The LORD has done what He planned. He has fulfilled His word
which He decreed in days of old. He has torn down witho...
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Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out
thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands
toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint f...
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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...
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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...
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IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WATCHES — _i.e.,_ of each watch, so that the
lamentation was continued throughout the night.
LIFT UP THY HANDS. — The wall is still addressed in its character as
a mourner, be...
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ק֣וּמִי ׀ רֹ֣נִּי _בַ_†__†_לַּ֗יְלָה_†
לְ רֹאשׁ֙...
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THE CALL TO PRAYER
Lamentations 2:18
IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the
concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its
transitions are very abrupt....
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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...
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_Watches. Jerusalem is here represented in the midst of danger and
misery. (Calmet)_...
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken
to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I
may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach i...
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The Prophet now explains himself more clearly, and confirms what I
have lately said, that he mentioned not the calamities of the people
except for this end, that those who were almost stupid might beg...
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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...
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ARISE, CRY OUT IN THE NIGHT,.... That is, O daughter of Zion, or
congregation of Israel, as the Targum; who are addressed and called
upon by the prophet to arise from their beds, and shake off their
s...
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Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out
thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands
toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint fo...
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_Their heart cried unto the Lord_ “The same,” says Blaney, “are
the speakers here who are said to have made the foregoing remarks
concerning the distressed condition of Jerusalem, namely, the
passenge...
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THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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Arise, cry out in the night, throughout all the watches of the night;
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WATCHES, with the desire and strength for
weeping renewed again and again, POUR OUT THINE HEART LIKE WATER...
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10-22 Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by
famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and
eaten, according to the threatening, Deuteronomy 28:53. Multitu...
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The prophet calls upon the Jews not to be slothful in this their very
evil day, but to rise up from their beds, and either at the beginning
of the four watches, or at the beginning of each watch, at a...
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Lamentations 2:19 Arise H6965 (H8798) out H7442 (H8798) night H3915
beginning H7218 watches H821 out H8210
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THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF
JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO
CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18).
The change between Lame...
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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...
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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...
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_Arise, cry out in the night._
WATCHNIGHT SERVICE
Methinks I might become a Jeremiah tonight, and weep as he, for surely
the Church at large is in almost as evil a condition. Oh, Zion, how
hast thou...
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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...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:18 Now Jerusalem (DAUGHTER OF
ZION) must cry out to God, just as the speaker (v. Lamentations 2:11)
has cried
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(צ) Lamentations 2:18. THEIR HEART CRIED UNTO THE LORD. The cry is
not to the God in covenant with Israel, but to the ruler over all
nations and all matter. Yet the pronoun their ca...
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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.
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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...
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2 Kings 6:28; 2 Kings 6:29; Deuteronomy 28:53; Deuteronomy 9:26;...