Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Lamentations 2:7
given up:
Heb. shut up
given up:
Heb. shut up
Verse 7. _THEY HAVE MADE A NOISE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD_] Instead of the silver trumpets of the sanctuary, nothing but the sounds of warlike instruments are to be heard....
SANCTUARY - The holy of holies; “the walls of her palaces” are those of the sacred buildings....
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...
_her palaces_ As this word is nowhere else applied to the Temple, it seems best (though parallelism of clauses suggests otherwise) to give the expression its natural sense, as in Lamentations 2:5. Alt...
THEY HAVE MADE A NOISE, &C.— "The Chaldeans have sent forth the sounds of joy on account of their victory, in the temple of the Lord, as the Jews were accustomed to do in their solemn festivals." Inst...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A BROKEN PEOPLE Lamentations 2:1-22 In content, form and theology chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter 1. Like chapter 1, the second chapter is also a national lament but the...
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day...
2:7 feast. (b-45) Or 'solemn assembly.' The same word appears in the original for 'assembly,' ch. 1.15 and here, and set feast. Numbers 10:10 ....
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...
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...
HATH CAST OFF... HATH ABHORRED. — The two verbs are used in a like context in Psalms 89:38. HIS SANCTUARY. — The word points to the Holy of Holies, and “the walls of her palaces” are therefore those...
זָנַ֨ח אֲדֹנָ֤י ׀ מִזְבְּחֹו֙ נִאֵ֣ר מִקְדָּשֹׁ֔ו הִסְגִּיר֙...
GOD AS AN ENEMY Lamentations 2:1 THE elegist, as we have seen, attributes the troubles of the Jews to the will and. action of God. In the second poem he even ventures further, and with daring logic p...
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...
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a (g) noise in the house of the LORD, as in the d...
_Cursed, or suffered it to be polluted, (Worthington) as he looked on it with horror, after it had been profaned by Achaz, &c. --- Towers. Septuagint, "palaces;" Greek: bareon. --- Feast. What a contr...
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The L...
He proceeds with the same subject, and adopts similar words. He says first, that God had _abominated his altar_; (152) an expression not strictly proper, but the Prophet could not otherwise fully shew...
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...
THE LORD HATH CAST OFF HIS ALTAR,.... Whether of incense, or of burnt offerings; the sacrifices of which used to be acceptable to him; but now the altar being cast down and demolished, there were no m...
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day o...
_He hath violently taken away his tabernacle as of a garden_ The Vulgate reads, _dissipavit, quasi hortum, tentorium suum; he hath dissolved, broke in pieces, scattered_, or _laid waste, his tent as a...
The Lord hath cast off His altar, rejecting it with disdain, chiefly on account of the hypocritical worship connected with it; HE HATH ABHORRED HIS SANCTUARY, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, th...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
1-9 A sad representation is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the notice seems mostly to refer to the hand of the Lord in their calamities. Yet God is not an enemy to h...
By ALTAR and SANCTUARY seemeth not to be meant strictly here the places or buildings so called, which are said to be the Lord s, because he directed the making of them, and they were dedicated to his...
Lamentations 2:7 Lord H136 spurned H2186 (H8804) altar H4196 abandoned H5010 (H8765) sanctuary H4720 up H5462
THE LORD'S ANGER IS REVEALED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:1). In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger' (antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destruction on...
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...
_He hath violently taken away His tabernacle._ DIVINE DESTRUCTION Jehovah is here represented as throwing down His own temple, as treating it as if it were a temporary shelter, as disregarding all it...
_How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in ms anger._ CHASTISEMENTS 1. It is our duty to strive with ourselves to be affected with the miseries of God’s people. 2. The chastise...
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...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ו) Lamentations 2:6. The dwelling-place of Jehovah on Mount Zion, which He claims as His own possession, with all its appointed services, has shared in the tribulations. HE HAS TRE...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:19; Acts 6:13; Acts 6:14; Amos 2:5; Ezekiel 24:21;...
They — The enemies with their triumphs and blasphemies, made as great a noise, as those that sang holy songs, or played on instruments, were wont to make to the glory of God....