Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 5:18
The foxes - Or, jackals. As these animals live among ruins, and shun the presence of man, it shows that Zion is laid waste and deserted.
The foxes - Or, jackals. As these animals live among ruins, and shun the presence of man, it shows that Zion is laid waste and deserted.
Verse 18. _THE FOXES WALK UPON IT._] _Foxes_ are very numerous in Palestine, see on Judges 15:4. It was usual among the Hebrews to consider all desolated land to be the resort of wild beasts; which is...
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
FOXES. jackals....
_foxes_ mg. _jackals_. The words imply that a considerable time has passed since the overthrow of the Temple....
BECAUSE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ZION— Houbigant connects this with the preceding verse; _For these things our eyes are dim; for mount Zion, because it is desolate, and the foxes walk upon it._ See Judges 1...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. THE MOUNTAIN OF ZION ... FOXES WALK UPON IT - they frequent desolate places, where they can freely and fearlessly roam....
ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
FOXES. — Better, _jackals,_ who are thought of as haunting the ruins of Jerusalem. (Comp. Psalms 63:10.)...
עַ֤ל הַר ־צִיֹּון֙ שֶׁ שָּׁמֵ֔ם שׁוּעָלִ֖ים ה
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The preceding p...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
_Foxes, which were very common, Judges xv. 4. Thus, Horace says: Agros atque lares patrios, habitandaque fana_ Apris relinquet et edacibus lupis. (Epod. 16.)...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Though he had in general included all kinds of evils, he yet mentions now the principal cause of sorrow, that _mount _Sion had lost its beauty and its excellency. For that place had been chosen by God...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
BECAUSE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ZION, WHICH IS DESOLATE,.... Meaning either the city of Jerusalem in general, or the temple in particular, which both lay in ruins: but the latter gave the truly godly the g...
_Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it._ Ver. 18. _Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,_] _q.d., _ Next unto our sins (which are our greatest sorro...
_For this our heart is faint_ And sinks under the load of its own heaviness. _Our eyes are dim_ See on Lamentations 2:11. Our spirits fail us, and we are almost blind with weeping. _Because of the mou...
Because of the mountain of Zion, where the Temple had formerly stood, WHICH IS DESOLATE, THE FOXES WALK UPON IT, jackals making their dens in its ruins. In the midst of all this sorrow, however, the h...
Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love...
17-22 The people of God express deep concern for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities. But whatever changes there are on earth, God is still the same, and remains for...
Foxes and other wild beasts, which flee from places inhabited for fear of men inhabiting, and are much in desolate places. The mountain of Zion, where the temple once stood, and people met to worship...
Lamentations 5:18 Mount H2022 Zion H6726 desolate H8074 (H8804) foxes H7776 walking H1980 (H8765) of the -...
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, The jackals walk on it. Capping all that has gone before was the fact that the mountain of Zion, that mountain that had once throbbed with the sound of w...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
_For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim._ ZION’S SUFFERINGS 1. The best are exposed to sorrow. That the best are not out of the reach of misery, or that there is no outward ca...
_The elders have ceased from the gate._ THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OVERTHROWN 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (A) It bringeth...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:17. How depressing is the conviction of personal sin. FOR THIS OUR HEART HAS BECOME FAINT. Many sorrows had surged over them and exhausted the faculty of external an...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 17:3;...