Her pleasant things - Chiefly, the sacred vessels of the temple 2 Chronicles 36:10.
Sanctuary ... congregation - Even a Jew might not enter the innermost sanctuary, which was for the priests only; but now the tramp of pagan soldiery has been heard within its sacred precincts.
CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once sh...
LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...
ENTERED INTO HER SANCTUARY. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:3),. technical expression. App-92. CONGREGATION. convocation, or assembly....
_pleasant_ lit. _desirable, precious_, with special reference to the Temple treasures (2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 52:19; 2 Kings 25:15). For the whole _v_. cp....
UPON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS— The latter part of the verse explains what is meant by this phrase; namely, the offerings and presents made to the sanctuary....
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congreg...
ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intimated...
PLEASANT THINGS] primarily the vessels of the sanctuary (2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19), but ineluding all of Jerusalem's precious possessions. 12-19. Zion's comfortless condition due to Jeh...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT LAMENTATIONS We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...
UPON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS... — The use of a like phrase in 2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19, of the vessels of the Temple, leads us to think primarily or them; but the word itself has a wider...
יָדֹו֙ פָּ֣רַשׂ צָ֔ר עַ֖ל כָּל ־מַחֲמַדֶּ֑יהָ...
SIN AND SUFFERING Lamentations 1:8 THE doctrinaire rigour of Judaism in its uncompromising association of moral and physical evils has led to an unreasonable disregard for the solid truth which lies...
In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom (m) thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy...
_Church. Deuteronomy xxxiii. 1., and Ezechiel xliv. 9. The Chaldeans disregarded the ordinance._...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her sk...
The Prophet again deplores the profanation of all sacred things; and this complaint, as I have said, proceeded from the bitterest sorrow; for though it was a sad thing for the faithful, to lose all th...
There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...
THE ENEMY HATH SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS ON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS,.... Meaning not the wealth and riches, the goods and substance, or the rich furniture in their own houses; but the precious things in th...
_The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy con...
_The adversary hath_ Or rather, _did, spread his hand upon all her pleasant things_ Hebrew, מחמדיה, _her desirable things_, namely, her riches, and what else she most desired to preserve. _She hath se...
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things, blasphemously robbing even the precious vessels and appointments of the Temple; FOR SHE HATH SEEN THAT THE HEATHEN ENTERED INTO HER...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
PLEASANT: Or, desireable...
1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation. Je...
HATH SPREAD OUT HIS HAND UPON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS; that is, hath got them into possession. By pleasant things are here to be understood the ornaments of the temple, upon which the enemy had laid v...
Lamentations 1:10 adversary H6862 spread H6566 (H8804) hand H3027 things H4261 seen H7200 (H8804) nations H147
THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
WHAT JERUSALEM HAS BECOME (LAMENTATIONS 1:8). Having outlined what Jerusalem had lost the prophet now turns his thoughts to what she has become. She has become like a menstrual woman whose situation i...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah. Appeal to God for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon...
This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...
_The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things._ SPOLIATION 1. The wicked are usually merciless towards the godly, spoiling them and theirs in most cruel manner, if the Lord re...
_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed._ THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH The emphatic word is “therefore.” It rings with sad and solemn cadence through the most mournful of all the books...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ח) Lamentations 1:8. JERUSALEM HAS SINNED A SIN, has broken the law of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty; THEREFORE SHE IS BECOME AS AN UNCLEAN ONE; not...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations. The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it appear...
Deuteronomy 23:3; Ezekiel 44:7; Ezekiel 7:22; Ezekiel 9:7; Isaiah 5:13
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Lamentations 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...
Pleasant things — Has laid violent hands on them. The things of the sanctuary were always pleasant things to those that feared God....