Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 2:16
Seen it - Omit “it.” The intensity of the enemy’s exultation is shown by the heaping up of unconnected words. We have found what we sought, have seen what we looked for.
Seen it - Omit “it.” The intensity of the enemy’s exultation is shown by the heaping up of unconnected words. We have found what we sought, have seen what we looked for.
Verse 16. _THIS_ IS _THE DAY THAT WE LOOKED FOR_] Jerusalem was the envy of the surrounding nations: they longed for its destruction, and rejoiced when it took place....
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...
ALL, &C. In some Codices, with Syriac, Lamentations 2:16 and Lamentations 2:17 are transposed to bring the letters _Ayin_ and _Pe_ into alphabetical order. The Septuagint leaves the verses, but transp...
Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
For the inverted order of the initial letters in the Heb. of this and the next _v_., see Intr., p. 321. _All thine enemies … against thee_ almost identical with Lamentations 3:46. Löhr refers for the...
II. THE PROPHET'S SINCERE SYMPATHY FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:11-16 TRANSLATION (11) MY eyes are spent with weeping, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is poured out to the ground because of t...
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it...
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...
ALL THINE ENEMIES. — The exultation of the enemies is expressed by every feature in the physiognomy of malignant hate, the wide mouth, the hissing, the gnashing of the teeth. They exult, as in half-br...
פָּצ֨וּ עָלַ֤יִךְ פִּיהֶם֙ כָּל ־אֹ֣ויְבַ֔יִךְ שָֽׁרְקוּ֙...
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN Lamentations 2:10 PASSION and poetry, when they fire the imagination, do more than personify individual material things. By fusing the separate objects in the crucible of a co...
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...
_Mouth, with scorn, Isaias lvii. 4., and Psalm xxxiv. 21._...
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach i...
Here, also, the Prophet introduces enemies as insolently exulting over the miseries of the people. He first says, that they had opened the mouth, even that they might loudly upbraid them; for he is no...
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...
ALL THINE ENEMIES HAVE OPENED THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THEE,.... Or "widened" x them; stretched them out as far as they could, to reproach, blaspheme, and insult; or, like gaping beasts, to swallow up and...
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen...
_All thine enemies have opened their mouths against thee_ As if they were ready to devour thee: see the margin. Or they have opened them in scoffs, reproaches, and insults. _They hiss and gnash their...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee, in a gesture of mockery and derision; THEY HISS AND GNASH THE TEETH, as an expression of satisfied rage, of vindictive malice. THEY SAY, WE HAVE...
10-22 Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and eaten, according to the threatening, Deuteronomy 28:53. Multitu...
As strangers that had no quarrels with nor prejudices against the Jews, passing by their country, and their great city Jerusalem, despised and scorned it; so their enemies with whom they had former qu...
Lamentations 2:16 enemies H341 (H8802) opened H6475 (H8804) mouth H6310 hiss H8319 (H8804) gnash H2786 ...
THE PROPHET ADDRESSES JERUSALEM RECOGNISING THAT THAT HER UNIQUE STATE IS SUCH THAT HE CAN OFFER NO COMFORT BECAUSE ALL IS AGAINST HER (LAMENTATIONS 2:13). The prophet sees the people of Jerusalem as...
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...
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...
_HOMILETICS_ EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ם) Lamentations 2:15. Casual strangers on their travels felt glad at sight of desolated Jerusalem. THEY CLAP THEIR HANDS AT THEE, ALL WHO PASS BY THE WAY, and add sco...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:43; Deuteronomy 28:44; Deuteronomy 29:18;...