Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 4:13
The blood of the just - Jeremiah 26:7 exhibits priests and prophets as the prime movers in an attempt to silence the word of God by putting Jeremiah to death. Compare the margin reference to Matthew.
The blood of the just - Jeremiah 26:7 exhibits priests and prophets as the prime movers in an attempt to silence the word of God by putting Jeremiah to death. Compare the margin reference to Matthew.
Verse 13. _FOR THE SINS OF HER PROPHETS_, AND _THE INIQUITIES OF_ _HER PRIESTS_] These most wretched beings, under the pretense of _zeal for the true religion_, persecuted the _genuine prophets,_ _pr...
CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed: How is the gold become dim...
LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
JUST. righteous ones. Compare Matthew 23:31; Matthew 23:37....
_the sins of her prophets_, and _the iniquities of her priests_ Cp. Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:10; Jeremiah 23:11 f....
II. AN EXPLANATION OF THE JUDGMENT Lamentations 4:11-20 TRANSLATION (11) The LORD has given vent to His wrath. He has poured out His fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has consumed h...
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, FOR THE SINS OF HER PROPHETS - the false prophets (; ). Supply the sense...
ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom. In...
FOR THE SINS OF] RV 'It is because of the sins of.' Zion's prophets were really murderers (2 Chronicles 24:21; Jeremiah 26:23)....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 4 JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK. V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has changed! The stones of the *temple...
THAT HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF THE JUST... — The words point to incidents like the death of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:21); the “innocent blood” shed by Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16); the...
מֵֽ חַטֹּ֣את נְבִיאֶ֔יהָ עֲוֹנֹ֖ות כֹּהֲנֶ֑יהָ הַ...
LEPERS Lamentations 4:13 PASSING from the fate of the princes to that of the prophets and priests, we come upon a vividly dramatic scene in the streets of Jerusalem amid the terror and confusion that...
The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of (g) her, (g) He means that these things are come to pass therefore, contrary to...
_Priests. They too generally favoured (Haydock) the false prophets, chap. ii. 26., &c. They were judges, and condemned the innocent: or exposed (Calmet) the citizens to destruction, by not warning the...
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves...
The Prophet, as in a matter fully proved, rebukes the Jews, that he might, as it was necessary, bring down their pride. Had he at first condemned the wickedness of the prophets and the priests, no cre...
Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
FOR THE SINS OF HER PROPHETS, [AND] THE INIQUITIES OF HER PRIESTS,.... Aben Ezra interprets this of the prophets of Baal, and the priests of the high places; but though false prophets and wicked pries...
For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, Ver. 13. _For the sins of her prophets._] These, these were the right caus...
_For the sins of her prophets_, &c. That is, of the false prophets, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem chiefly hearkened; _and the iniquities of her priests_ Who _bore rule by their means, Jeremiah...
For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, Cf Jeremiah 23:11; Jeremiah 26:7, THAT HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF THE JUST IN THE MIDST OF HER, practicing even in those days what the Lord...
God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests...
13-20 Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Divine vengeance pursues him. Our anointed King al...
Not for their sins alone who were the _false prophets_ and Baal's _priests_, but for their sins in an eminent degree; they were the ringleaders, either encouraging the people to the wickednesses they...
Lamentations 4:13 sins H2403 prophets H5030 iniquities H5771 priests H3548 shed H8210 (H8802) midst H7130 blood...
JERUSALEM'S PREDICAMENT WAS LARGELY DUE TO THE PRIESTS AND THE PROPHETS WHO WOULD SUFFER ACCORDINGLY (LAMENTATIONS 4:12). The prophet now draws attention to the fact of how much of Jerusalem's predic...
CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah. Sins of the leaders acknowledged. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the mea...
Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:13 SINS OF HER PROPHETS. They did not warn and instruct the people (see Jeremiah 5:30;...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (מ) Lamentations 4:13. It is needful to connect this verse with the last by words like, _This incredible thing came to pass,_ BECAUSE OF THE SINS OF HER PROPHETS, THE INIQUITIES OF...
THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING. EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 4:1 HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas f
The fourth lamentation: How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 7:52; Ezekiel 22:26;...
Priests — The ecclesiastical men were a great cause of the first and last destruction of Jerusalem. And so they are of most other places that come to ruin, through their neglect of their duty, or enco...