She remembereth not her last end— She hath not remembered her latter end. Houbigant. The apostrophe at the close of the verse, wherein the city is represented as addressing herself to God, is very nervous and animated.
Verse 9. _SHE REMEMBERETH NOT HER LAST END_] Although evident marks of her pollution appeared about her, and the land was defiled by her sinfulness even to its utmost borders, she had no thought or co...
HER FILTHINESS IS IN HER SKIRTS - Her personal defilement is no longer concealed beneath the raiment Jeremiah 13:22. SHE CAME DOWN WONDERFULLY - Jerusalem once enthroned as a princess must sit on the...
CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once sh...
LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...
REMERNBERETH. remembered. LAST END. hereafter. WONDERFULLY. Hebrew, plural "wonders". a great wonder. BEHOLD. see, behold. Same word as in verses: Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 1:20. Not the same...
These _vv_. in figurative language describe the Jewish people, as having brought upon itself through sin and consequent national humiliation the contempt of all its neighbours, while it is painfully c...
_is she come down wonderfully_ Cp. Isaiah 47:1....
DISCOURSE: 1090 THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT REMEMBERING OUR LATTER END Lamentations 1:9. _She remembereth_ [Note: It should rather be, remembered.] _not her lost end; therefore she came down wonderfully_...
B. Explanation of the Present Condition of Zion Lamentations 1:8-9 a TRANSLATION (8) Jerusalem sinned grievously and therefore she has become filthy; all who once honored her now despise her, having...
Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. HER F...
ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intimated...
HER FILTHINESS] moral pollution, expressed by a bold but common Oriental figure (Jeremiah 13:22). SHE REMEMBERETH NOT] RV 'she remembered not.'...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT LAMENTATIONS We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...
HER FILTHINESS. — The picture of pollution is pushed to its most loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled. SHE REMEMBERETH NOT... — Better, _she remembered not._ It was her reckl...
טֻמְאָתָ֣הּ בְּ שׁוּלֶ֗יהָ לֹ֤א זָֽכְרָה֙ אַחֲרִיתָ֔הּ...
SIN AND SUFFERING Lamentations 1:8 THE doctrinaire rigour of Judaism in its uncompromising association of moral and physical evils has led to an unreasonable disregard for the solid truth which lies...
In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...
(l) Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her latter end; therefore she hath been wonderfully abased: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified...
_End in her prosperity, to avert this misfortune. (Haydock) --- Idolatry is a spiritual adultery, (Worthington) and one of the worst species of filth. (Haydock)_...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her sk...
He continues here, as I think, the same subject; he had said at the end of the last verse that turpitude or baseness had been seen at Jerusalem; and now he says that it was on the very _fringes _or sk...
There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...
HER FILTHINESS [IS] IN HER SKIRTS,.... Her sin is manifest to all, being to be seen in her punishment. The allusion is to a menstruous woman, to whom she is compared, both before and after; whose bloo...
_Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself]._...
_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned_ Hebrew, חשׂא חשׂאה, _in sinning hath sinned_, or _hath sinned sin:_ that is, sinned wilfully and deliberately; hath sinned that sin which of all others is the abomin...
Her filthiness is in her skirts, as of a woman Levitically unclean; SHE REMEMBERETH NOT HER LAST END, she did not consider the result of her persistent iniquity, THEREFORE SHE CAME DOWN WONDERFULLY, t...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation. Je...
He persisteth in his comparison of the Jewish people, either to a sluttish, nasty woman, or to an impudent woman that is not ashamed to expose her nastiness or wickedness to the view of all. SHE REMEM...
Lamentations 1:9 uncleanness H2932 skirts H7757 consider H2142 (H8804) destiny H319 collapse H3381 (H8799) awesome...
THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
WHAT JERUSALEM HAS BECOME (LAMENTATIONS 1:8). Having outlined what Jerusalem had lost the prophet now turns his thoughts to what she has become. She has become like a menstrual woman whose situation i...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah. Appeal to God for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon...
This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...
_She remembereth not her last end: therefore she came down wonderfully._ THE WICKED SURPRISED BY THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION There are certain great principles in the Divine administration, the operation o...
_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed._ THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH The emphatic word is “therefore.” It rings with sad and solemn cadence through the most mournful of all the books...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:9 HER UNCLEANNESS. The sins she committed (v. Lamentations 1:8) were IN HER SKIRTS, that
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ח) Lamentations 1:8. JERUSALEM HAS SINNED A SIN, has broken the law of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty; THEREFORE SHE IS BECOME AS AN UNCLEAN ONE; not...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations. The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it appear...
1 Peter 4:17; 1 Samuel 1:11; 2 Kings 14:26; 2 Samuel 16:12;...
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Lamentations 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...