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.
Verse 13. _WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE_] Or, rather, as Dr. _Blayney_, "What shall I urge to thee?" How shall I comfort thee? _THY BREACH_ IS _GREAT LIKE THE SEA_] Thou hast a _flood_ of _afflictions_, a...
EQUAL - i. e. “compare.” Zion’s breach, i. e. her destruction, is measureless, like the ocean....
CHAPTER 2 WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE The great catastrophe continues in vivid description throughout this chapter also. Not an enemy has done it, not Nebuchadrezzar and his Chaldean hordes, but the Lord i...
LAMENTATIONS 2. THE SECOND LAMENT. This differs from the first in its contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same, _i.e._ there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first word...
Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
_shall I testify unto thee_ or, as mg. _take to witness for thee_. If the MT. be right, we can only explain it as meaning, Of what shall I assure thee? But it is better, specially in view of the paral...
II. THE PROPHET'S SINCERE SYMPATHY FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:11-16 TRANSLATION (11) MY eyes are spent with weeping, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is poured out to the ground because of t...
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach...
WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS FOR THEE?] RV 'What shall I testify unto thee? 'in the sense of attempting to comfort Jerusalem....
ZION'S SORROWS DUE TO JEHOVAH'S ANGER In this second dirge, the cause of Zion's woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off. Zion's miseries are the ju...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 2 NOW JEREMIAH SPEAKS. V1 The *Lord’s anger is like a black cloud over Zion (*Jerusalem). He allowed enemies to destroy the beauty...
WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS... — Practically the question is the same as that which follows, and implies that there was no parallel to the sufferings of Zion in the history of the past. Had the...
מָֽה ־אֲעִידֵ֞ךְ מָ֣ה אֲדַמֶּה ־לָּ֗ךְ הַ בַּ
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN Lamentations 2:10 PASSION and poetry, when they fire the imagination, do more than personify individual material things. By fusing the separate objects in the crucible of a co...
In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its materi...
(i) What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy brea...
_Sea. This is an hyperbole, to express the greatness of sorrow, as the sea surpasses all other waters. (Worthington)_...
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach i...
When we wish to alleviate grief, we are wont to bring examples which have some likeness to the case before us. For when any one seeks to comfort one in illness, he will say, “Thou art not the first no...
The second chapter is a very deep and touching appeal. The desolation of Jerusalem is looked at as Jehovah's own work, on what was His own, and not as that of the enemy. Never had there been such sorr...
WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS FOR THEE?.... What argument can be made use of? what proof or evidence can be given? what witnesses can be called to convince thee, and make it a clear case to time,...
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach ...
_The elders, &c., sit upon the ground, and keep silence _ These and the other expressions of this and the two following verses betoken the deepest mourning and sorrow. _Mine eyes do fail with tears_ M...
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? to bring some measure of comfort from the experience of others. WHAT THING SHALL I LIKEN TO THEE, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM? in making some comparison which...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
10-22 Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and eaten, according to the threatening, Deuteronomy 28:53. Multitu...
The sum of this verse is, that the miserable condition of the people was both _incomparable_ and _incurable_. There was no people whose miserable condition was in any degree parallel to the misery of...
Lamentations 2:13 console H5749 (H8686) (H8675) H5749 (H8799) what H4100 liken H1819 (H8762) daughter...
THE PROPHET ADDRESSES JERUSALEM RECOGNISING THAT THAT HER UNIQUE STATE IS SUCH THAT HE CAN OFFER NO COMFORT BECAUSE ALL IS AGAINST HER (LAMENTATIONS 2:13). The prophet sees the people of Jerusalem as...
CONTENTS: Lamentation on the effect of the calamities of Judah. God's passionate consideration appealed to. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The wormwood and gall in affliction is the thought t...
Lamentations 2:1. _How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud._ The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope. Lamentations 2:2. _The Lord hath swallowed up all the inha...
_Mine eyes do fail with tears._ THE MISERIES OF THE CHURCH TAKEN TO HEART 1. The true ministers of God do take the miseries of the Church to heart in the greatest measure. 2. Our sorrow, humiliatio...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:1 God Has Set Zion under a Cloud. This chapter emphasizes the completeness of God’s judgment on Jerusalem. The verses unfold in three parts, each of which has a dif...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (מ) Lamentations 2:13. He is ready, as a servant of the All-merciful and All-wise, to speak on His behalf, so as to alleviate the clamant wretchedness; but he feels unable. WHAT SHA...
ZION'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD. LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS. EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 2:1 HATH THE LORD COVERED; rather, _doth _… _cover_. THE DAUGHTER OF ZION; i.e.
The second lamentation: How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and he has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool...
2 Samuel 5:20; Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 26:3; Ezekiel 26:4; Jeremiah 14:17
Who — There was no people whose condition was in any degree parallel to the misery of the Jews: nor was there any cure for them, their breach was like a sea breach where the waters come in with such a...