Verse Lamentations 4:21. _REJOICE AND BE GLAD, O DAUGHTER OF EDOM_] A strong irony. _THE CUP ALSO SHALL PASS THROUGH UNTO THEE_] Thou who hast triumphed in our disasters shalt shortly have enough of...
The prophet ends his elegy with the language of Messianic hope. The earthly king had fallen Lamentations 4:20; but Israel cannot really perish. First then Edom, the representative of the Church’s foes...
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...
REJOICE, &C. Said in solemn irony. the land of Uz. See notes on p. 666, and App-62. NAKED. Between Lamentations 4:21 and Lamentations 4:22 lies the whole of this present Dispensation. See App-63 and...
_Rejoice and be glad_ Enjoy thy shortlived triumph, while thou mayest. _that dwellest in the land of Uz_ See on Jeremiah 25:20. _The cup_ For this, as a figure for Jehovah's wrath, cp. Jeremiah 25:1...
For the fierce vengeance which is to come on Edom cp. Jeremiah 49:7-22; Psalms 137:7; Isaiah 34 specially Lamentations 4:5;...
REJOICE AND BE GLAD, O DAUGHTER OF EDOM— This is an ironical expression against the Edomites, who had joined themselves to the Chaldeans in the siege of Jerusalem. See Psalms 137:7. Obad. Lamentations...
III. AN EXPECTATION REGARDING THE JUDGMENT Lamentations 4:21-22 TRANSLATION (21) Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz! But to You also shall the cup pass. You shall b...
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. REJOICE AND BE GLAD, O DAUGH...
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...
REJOICE AND BE GLAD] i.e. enjoy thy malicious but fleeting satisfaction (Jeremiah 49:7). Edom is typical of the church's foes today. UZ] the territory lying SE. of Palestine, extending probably into...
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...
O DAUGHTER OF EDOM. — The triumph of Edom in the downfall of Zion was, as in Psalms 137, the crowning sorrow of the mourner. But with this sorrow there is a vision of judgment, which is also a vision...
שִׂ֤ישִׂי וְ שִׂמְחִי֙ בַּת ־אֱדֹ֔ום _יֹושֶׁ֖בֶת_† בְּ
THE DEBT OF GUILT EXTINGUISHED Lamentations 4:21 ONE after another the vain hopes of the Jews melt in mists of sorrow. But just as the last of these flickering lights is disappearing a gleam of conso...
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...
Rejoice and be glad, (n) O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunk, and shalt make thyself naked. (n) This is spoken by derisio...
_Rejoice. Edom had manifested her joy at the misfortunes of Juda. The prophet hints at this with a cutting irony, Psalm cxxxvi. 7., and Abdias 11. --- Come, as at a feast. Edom was visited five years...
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. The punishment of thine iniqui...
The Prophet in this verse intimates that the Jews were exposed to the reproaches and taunts of all their enemies, but he immediately moderates their sorrow, by adding a consolation; and it was a sorro...
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...
REJOICE AND BE GLAD, O DAUGHTER OF EDOM,.... The land of Idumea, and the inhabitants of it, who did indeed rejoice at the destruction of Jerusalem, Obadiah 1:12; and here, in an ironic manner, are bid...
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. Ver. 21. _Rejoice and be glad...
_Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom_ A sarcastical expression, as if the prophet had said, Rejoice while thou mayest, O Edom, over the calamities of the Jews; but thy joy shall not last long, for...
God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests...
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz, on the border of the great Arabian Plain; that is, no matter if the Edomites were now exulting, THE CUP, namely, that of God's...
21,22 Here it is foretold that an end should be put to Zion's troubles. Not the fulness of punishment deserved, but of what God has determined to inflict. An end shall be put to Edom's triumphs. All...
The Edomites were descended from Esau the elder brother of Jacob, and dwelled in a part of Arabia that obtained the name of Uz, probably from Uz the son of Dishan, who descended from Seir, GENESIS 36:...
Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice H7797 (H8798) glad H8055 (H8798) daughter H1323 Edom H123 dwell H3427 (H8802) lan
EDOM ARE TO BE PUNISHED FOR THEIR PART IN JERUSALEM'S DOWNFALL AND FOR TAKING POSSESSION OF SOUTHERN JUDAH. WHILST THERE WAS HOPE IN THE FUTURE FOR ZION, THERE WOULD BE NONE FOR EDOM (LAMENTATIONS 4:2...
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...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ש) Lamentations 4:21. _The children of Edom_ had exulted over the destruction of Jerusalem, and urgently culled for its completeness. They said, _Rase it, rate it, even to the foun...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:19; Amos 1:11; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ezekiel 25:12;...
Rejoice — The prophet speaks ironically, Rejoice; but thy joy shall be but for a little time. Drunken — Thou shalt be intoxicated with it, and make thyself naked as drunken men sometimes do....