Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 4:14
They have wandered - God’s ministers, consecrated to His service, wandered through the city blinded by the insatiable lust of slaughter. It was a pollution to touch their garments.
They have wandered - God’s ministers, consecrated to His service, wandered through the city blinded by the insatiable lust of slaughter. It was a pollution to touch their garments.
Verse 14. _THEY HAVE WANDERED_ AS _BLIND_ MEN _IN THE STREETS_] Rather, "They ran frantic through the streets, they were stained with blood." This was in their pretended zeal for their cause. Bishop _...
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...
POLLUTED... WITH BLOOD. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 19:11; Numbers 19:16). App-92....
_They_ these prophets and priests. _wander, etc_.] in perplexity and helplessness, stamped with the mark of Cain....
SO THAT MEN COULD NOT TOUCH THEIR GARMENTS— _It could not be avoided but their garments must be touched._ Therefore the prophet immediately addresses the citizens of Jerusalem, Lamentations 4:15. _Dep...
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...
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. THEY HAVE WANDERED AS BLIND - with mental aberration. THEY HAVE...
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...
THEY HAVE WANDERED] reeled and staggered, reckless of their responsibilities as leaders....
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...
THEY HAVE WANDERED... — Literally, _reeled._ The blindness, _i.e.,_ either that of the insatiable lust of blood, or of hopeless despair, or both. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:28; Jeremiah 23:12; Isaiah 29:10...
נָע֤וּ עִוְרִים֙ בַּֽ † חוּצֹ֔ות נְגֹֽאֲל֖וּ בַּ...
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...
They have wandered [as] blind [men] (h) in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that (i) men could not touch their garments. (h) Some refer this to the blind men who as they went...
_They. Septuagint, "Her guards have tottered in," &c. --- When. Protestants, "so that men could not touch their garments," as they were defiled. (Haydock) --- These hypocrites were afraid of touching...
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...
They who simply read, that the blind had wandered, deduce this meaning, that the blind were polluted in the streets, even because there was filth everywhere. They, indeed, come near to the meaning of...
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...
THEY HAVE WANDERED [AS] BLIND [MEN] IN THE STREETS,.... That is, the false prophets and wicked priests; and may be understood either literally, that when the city was taken, and they fled, they were l...
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. Ver. 14. _They have wandered as blind men in the streets._] W...
_They have wandered as blind men in the streets_ They strayed from the paths of righteousness, and were blind to every thing that was good, but to do evil they were quick-sighted; _they have polluted...
God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests...
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, or, "they," the priests and prophets, "reeled through the streets, defiled with the blood which they had shed,...
SO THAT MEN COULD NOT TOUCH: Or, in that they could not but touch...
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...
A variety of interpreters hath made this text much more difficult than it is. Certainly nothing can appear more reasonable than to interpret the pronoun in the front of the verse relatively, and to fe...
Lamentations 4:14 wandered H5128 (H8804) blind H5787 streets H2351 defiled H1351 (H8738) blood H1818 no H3808
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....
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...
Deuteronomy 28:28; Deuteronomy 28:29; Ephesians 4:18; Hosea 4:2;...
They — The prophets and priests wandered up and down the streets polluting themselves with blood, either the blood of the children which they slew, or the just men, mentioned Lamentations 4:13, the sl...