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Verse 14. _THE ELDERS HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE_] There is now no more
justice administered to the people; they are under military law, or
disposed of in every sense according to the caprice of their...
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THE GATE - The gate was the place for public gatherings, for
conversation, and the music of stringed instruments....
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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...
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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...
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_from the gate_ the place of social enjoyment and conversation,
answering to our clubs and other places of entertainment. See on
Jeremiah 14:2....
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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...
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
musick. THE ELDERS HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE. Aged men in the East
meet in the open space round the gate to decide judicial trials, and...
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5:14 music. (a-13) * _ Neginoth_ , 'stringed instruments,' as Title,
Psalms 4:6 , Psalms 4:54 , Psalms 4:55 , Psalms 4:61 ,...
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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...
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FROM THE GATE] corresponding to our public square or park (Jeremiah
14:2)....
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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....
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HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE. — The gate in an Eastern city was the
natural place of meeting for the elder citizens as for counsel and
judgment (Ruth 4:1; Joshua 20:4), and also for social converse (Job...
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זְקֵנִים֙ מִ שַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ
בַּחוּרִ֖ים מִ...
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SIN AND SHAME
Lamentations 5:11
THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the
poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon
His people. The preceding p...
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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...
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The elders have ceased from the (h) gate, the young men from their
music.
(h) There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth....
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_Gates, where sentence was usually passed. (Haydock) --- The Jews had
judges at Babylon, (Daniel xiii. 5.) but not at first, nor
everywhere._...
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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...
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Here the Prophet briefly shews that the city was reduced to ruins, so
that nothing but desolation could be seen there. For when cities are
inhabited, judges sit at the gate and young men exercise them...
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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...
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THE ELDERS HAVE CEASED FROM THE GATE,.... Of the sanhedrim, or court
of judicature, as the Targum; from the gate of the city, where they
used to sit and try causes; but now there was nothing of this k...
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Ver. 14. _The elders have ceased from the gate._] Where they were wont
to sit, Gen 34:20 to judge between party and party.
_ Th...
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_Princes are hanged up by their hand_ By the hand of their enemies.
_They took the young men to grind_ To grind at the mill was the common
employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5. _The children fell under t...
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The elders have ceased from the gate, no longer assembling at the
customary place for deliberations and judgments, THE YOUNG MEN FROM
THEIR MUSIC, for the joyful meetings were also held in the open sp...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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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...
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Our grave men were wont to sit and execute judgment in the gates, but
now there is no such thing. Our young men were wont to play on music,
and to have their merry meetings, but they are also ceased....
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Lamentations 5:14 elders H2205 ceased H7673 (H8804) gate H8179 men
H970 music H5058
elders -...
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The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.
The area within and around the gate of the city was where much local
activity took place. It was often the only place in the city...
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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...
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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...
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_The elders have ceased from the gate._
THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OVERTHROWN
1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is
overthrown from among them.
(1) Reasons.
(A) It bringeth...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 5:14. Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of
life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social
pastimes. THE ELDERS CEASED FROM [FREQUENTING] T...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 5:1
INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 16:18; Ezekiel 26:13; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 3:2; Isaiah 3:3