Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 4:5
They that were brought up in scarlet - literally, “those that were carried upon scarlet;” young children in arms and of the highest birth now lie on the dirt-heaps of the city.
They that were brought up in scarlet - literally, “those that were carried upon scarlet;” young children in arms and of the highest birth now lie on the dirt-heaps of the city.
Verse Lamentations 4:5. _EMBRACE DUNGHILLS._] Lie on _straw_ or _rubbish_, instead of the costly carpets and sofas on which they formerly stretched themselves....
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...
EMBRACE. Compare Job 24:8....
_delicately_ luxuriously. Children are still the subject, and not, as has been suggested, rich persons. In the latter case we should have to render _carried on scarlet_(i.e. litters or couches furnish...
THEY THAT DID FEED DELICATELY, &C.— See the note on 1 Samuel 2:8 where it has been observed that it was usual in the east to burn dried dung, and consequently to lay up heaps of it for use in their co...
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A RUINED KINGDOM Lamentations 4:1-22 The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s 1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines instea...
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. THEY THAT DID FEED DELICATELY - on dainties. ARE DESOLATE - or, perish. THEY THAT...
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...
DELICATELY] daintily (Proverbs 29:21). BROUGHT UP IN SCARLET] lit. 'carried upon scarlet,' as infants. EMBRACE DUNGHILLS] lie upon dust heaps. The contrast is most vivid. From the highest luxury, the...
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 THAT WERE BROUGHT UP... — Literally, _that were carried_ (as children are carried). “Scarlet” as in 2 Samuel 1:24, stands for the shawls or garments of the rich, dyed, as they were, in the Tyrian...
הָ אֹֽכְלִים֙ לְ מַ֣עֲדַנִּ֔ים נָשַׁ֖מּוּ בַּ †...
CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two...
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...
_Scarlet. Literally, "yellow;" croceis. (Haydock) --- Hebrew means purple. Those who have been educated in the most delicate manner, are forced to feed on the most disgusting things, 4 Kings vi. 25.,...
How is the gold become dim! how is 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 gold, how are they e...
Here he goes on farther, and says, that they had perished with famine who had been accustomed to the most delicate food. He had said generally that infants found nothing in their mothers’ breasts, but...
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 THAT DID FEED DELICATELY ARE DESOLATE IN THE STREETS,.... That were brought up in the king's palace, or in the houses of noblemen; or, however, born of parents rich and wealthy, and had been used...
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Ver. 5. _They that did feed delicately._] Such uncertainty there is of outward afflu...
_Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast The very dragons have drawn out the breast:_ so Blaney. Even these fierce and destructive animals are not so unnatural as to neglect the care of their young...
JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
They that did feed delicately, being very choicy in the selection of the viands which loaded down their tables, ARE DESOLATE IN THE STREETS, without homes and without food as well; THEY THAT WERE BROU...
1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
This judgment reached not only to the common people, but to persons of the highest rank and order, whose misery was now so much the greater, because so contrary to their former splendid state and way...
Lamentations 4:5 ate H398 (H8802) delicacies H4574 desolate H8074 (H8738) streets H2351 up H539 (H8803) scarlet
THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 4:1). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (precious) sto...
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.— (ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to their instincts...
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 Timothy 5:6; 2 Samuel 1:24; Amos 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:54; Isaiah