Verse 18. _O WALL OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION_] חומת בת ציון _chomath_ _bath tsiyon, wall of the daughter of Zion_. These words are probably those of the passengers, who appear to be affected by the deso...
THEIR HEART - That of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The prophet bids the wall, as the representative of the people who had dwelt secure under its protection, shed floods of tears on their behalf. Brok...
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...
CRIED. cried (distressfully)....
"Their" has no antecedent, and the beginning of the _v_. is evidently corrupt in its harsh combination of assertion and exhortation, although the corruption, supported as it is by LXX and Syr. (so Vul...
THEIR HEART CRIED— _Their heart crieth, O Lord, to the virgin, the daughter of Sion._ Houbigant. See his note....
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...
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. THEIR HEART CRIED UNTO THE...
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...
O WALL] apostrophised as a human mourner (Isaiah 14:31). NO REST] RV 'no respite.' APPLE OF THINE EYE] lit. 'daughter,' i.e. pupil of the eye: cp. Psalms 17:8. 20-22. In bewilderment Zion appeals to...
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...
THEIR HEART. — The possessive pronoun does not refer to any immediate antecedent, but points, with a wild abruptness, to the mourners of Zion. Yet more boldly their cry is an appeal to the “wall” of Z...
צָעַ֥ק לִבָּ֖ם אֶל ־אֲדֹנָ֑י חֹומַ֣ת בַּת ־צ֠
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....
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...
_Upon. Hebrew and Septuagint, "O wall," &c., ver. 8. (Haydock)_...
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...
He means not that their _heart _really _cried to God, _for there was no cry in their heart; but by this expression he sets forth the vehemence of their grief, as though he had said, that the heart of...
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...
THEIR HEART CRIED UNTO THE LORD,.... Either the heart of their enemies, as Aben Ezra; which cried against the Lord, and blasphemed him; or rather the heart of the Jews in their distress, when they saw...
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. Ver. 18. _Their herd cried...
_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...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
Their heart, that of the Jews suffering such great afflictions, CRIED UNTO THE LORD, even while they addressed the fortifications of their city, O WALL OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, the city with all its i...
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...
They cried unto God seriously, though not sincerely; from their heart, though not with their whole heart; either by the wall, or upon the wall, or (which is judged most probable) by occasion of the br...
Lamentations 2:18 heart H3820 out H6817 (H8804) Lord H136 wall H2346 daughter H1323 Zion H6726 tears H1832
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 1:15; 1 Samuel 7:6; 1 Timothy 2:8; Ezekiel 5:10; Ezekiel 5:16;
O wall — That is, those that are upon it....