_JEREMIAH LAMENTETH THE MISERY OF JERUSALEM: HE COMPLAINETH THEREOF TO GOD._ _Before Christ 588._ THE prophet gives a melancholy detail of the dire effects of the divine anger in the subversion of both the civil and religious constitution of the Jews, and in that extreme wretchedness and distress... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEAUTY OF ISRAEL— "The temple and all its glory: and hath not spared the ark itself, the _footstool_ of the Schechinah, which sat between the Cherubim, as on a throne." See Matthew 11:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HATH NOT PITIED— _He hath not spared._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HATH DRAWN BACK HIS RIGHT HAND— "He hath withdrawn his wonted assistance, and given up his people into the hands of their enemies." See Psalms 74:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HATH—TAKEN AWAY HIS TABERNACLE— _He hath laid waste his tabernacle as a garden._ Houbigant. See Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 5:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY HAVE MADE A NOISE, &C.— "The Chaldeans have sent forth the sounds of joy on account of their victory, in the temple of the Lord, as the Jews were accustomed to do in their solemn festivals." Instead of a joyful sound of praises and thanksgivings to God, nothing was heard but the noise of soldie... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LIVER, &C.— Bishop Lowth explains it, "My vitals seem to be dissolved, and have lost all their strength." See Job 16:13.Psalms 22:14. The LXX. read _My glory is cast down upon the ground._ That the mental passions have a considerable influence upon the habit of the body in various instances, is a... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS FOR THEE— _With what likeness shall I compare thee?_ "What instance can I bring of any calamity like thine? that such an example may be some mitigation of thy misery." See Lowth, and Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
FALSE BURDENS— _Burdens of vanity_—false prophesies. See Isaiah 13:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT HE HAD COMMANDED, &C.— "He hath fulfilled the threatening which he had denounced against those who were disobedient to the law of Moses, as well as what he had denounced long before by his prophets.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR HEART CRIED— _Their heart crieth, O Lord, to the virgin, the daughter of Sion._ Houbigant. See his note.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS— _Whether thou hast done the like to any one._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST CALLED, &C.— "Terrors come upon me from every side by thy appointment, just as multitudes used to flock to Jerusalem at the time of the solemn feasts." Houbigant renders it rather more clearly, Thou hast called terrors on all sides; as to a solemn feast-day. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The hand of... [ Continue Reading ]