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Verse 17. _ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS_] Extending the hands is the
form in supplication.
_JERUSALEM IS AS A MENSTRUOUS WOMAN_] To whom none dared to approach,
either to help or comfort, because o...
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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...
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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...
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JACOB. Referring to the natural seed. See notes on Genesis 32:28;
Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26; Genesis 45:28. Compare...
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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Here the poet speaks, while Zion resumes her lament from Lamentations
1:18 to the end of the ch.
_spreadeth forth her hands_ in fruitless supplication. For the phrase
itself cp. Exodus 9:29; 1 Kings 8...
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ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS— She extendeth her hands as a
suppliant, praying for relief, and consolation: so Virgil says of
Turnus:
_Ille, humilis supplexque, oculos dextramque precantem Protenden...
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B. The Appeal to Neighboring Nations Lamentations 1:17-19
TRANSLATION
(17) Zion spreads forth her hands, but there is none to comfort her.
The LORD has given commandment concerning Jacob that his nei...
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Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the
LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be
round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among th...
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1:17 him; (d-24) Or 'Jehovah hath given his adversaries round about
charge against Jacob.'...
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_That_ HIS ADVERSARIES _should be_ ROUND ABOUT HIM] i.e. that his
nearest neighbours should be his most hateful foes. In this v. the
poet speaks....
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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...
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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...
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ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS... — The normal attitude of Eastern
prayer, or, perhaps, of lamentation and despair.
THAT HIS ADVERSARIES... — Better, _that those round about him should
be his adversa...
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פֵּֽרְשָׂ֨ה צִיֹּ֜ון בְּ יָדֶ֗יהָ
אֵ֤ין מְנַחֵם֙...
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ZION'S APPEAL
Lamentations 1:12
IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the
speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers,
then to the larger circle of the s...
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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...
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Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her:
the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries
[should be] around him: Jerusalem is (r) as a menstruous woman amon...
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_Then. They surround the city, to starve the inhabitants, ver. 8._...
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From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against
them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he
hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my
tra...
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The Prophet first says that _Jerusalem had expanded her hands_, as a
token of sorrow, or that she might seek friends from every side; for
when we wish to move men to pity, we stretch forth our arms. I...
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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...
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ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS,.... Either as submitting to the
conqueror, and imploring mercy; or rather as calling to her friends to
help and relieve her. The Targum is,
"Zion spreadeth out her han...
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Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her:
the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries
[should be] round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman amo...
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_Zion spreadeth forth her hands_ She extendeth her hands as a
suppliant praying for relief and consolation. _And there is none to
comfort her_ None who can, or are even inclined to do it. _The Lord
ha...
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Zion spreadeth forth her hands, in a gesture imploring help, AND THERE
IS NONE TO COMFORT HER; THE LORD HATH COMMANDED CONCERNING JACOB THAT
HIS ADVERSARIES SHOULD BE ROUND ABOUT HIM, his very neighbo...
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THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that
passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her
outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...
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The same in this verse is meant by _Zion, Jacob, and Jerusalem_,
unless Zion more specially signifieth the Jews considered as a church,
because of the temple built upon it. She spreadeth out her hands...
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Lamentations 1:17 Zion H6726 out H6566 (H8765) hands H3027 comforts
H5162 (H8764) LORD H3068 commanded H6680
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JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BEHOLD HER PITIABLE STATE
(LAMENTATIONS 1:12).
Lamentations 1:12
(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Behold, and see,
If there be any sorrow like to...
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JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER
CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12).
This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which
Jerusalem...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men._
SUPREME PENALTIES
1. When God meaneth to afflict us, He will spoil us of all our helps
wherein we may have any confidence.
2. God can as easily...
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_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_
ZION’S APPEAL
1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy.
Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be
passi...
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LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins
with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem.
The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition,
12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 1:1
A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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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...
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1 Kings 8:22; 1 Kings 8:38; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Kings 25:1; Ezekiel 36:17
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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...
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Jerusalem — Is become loathsome and filthy....