Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Lamentations 1:17
That his adversaries should be round about him] i.e. that his nearest neighbours should be his most hateful foes. In this v. the poet speaks.
That his adversaries should be round about him] i.e. that his nearest neighbours should be his most hateful foes. In this v. the poet speaks.
Verse 17. _ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS_] Extending the hands is the form in supplication. _JERUSALEM IS AS A MENSTRUOUS WOMAN_] To whom none dared to approach, either to help or comfort, because o...
SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS - In prayer Exodus 9:29, Exodus 9:33, but Zion entreats in vain. There is no one to comfort her - not God, for He is chastising her, nor man, for all the neighboring nations...
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...
JACOB. Referring to the natural seed. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26; Genesis 45:28. Compare...
See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....
Here the poet speaks, while Zion resumes her lament from Lamentations 1:18 to the end of the ch. _spreadeth forth her hands_ in fruitless supplication. For the phrase itself cp. Exodus 9:29; 1 Kings 8...
ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS— She extendeth her hands as a suppliant, praying for relief, and consolation: so Virgil says of Turnus: _Ille, humilis supplexque, oculos dextramque precantem Protenden...
B. The Appeal to Neighboring Nations Lamentations 1:17-19 TRANSLATION (17) Zion spreads forth her hands, but there is none to comfort her. The LORD has given commandment concerning Jacob that his nei...
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among th...
1:17 him; (d-24) Or 'Jehovah hath given his adversaries round about charge against Jacob.'...
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...
ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS... — The normal attitude of Eastern prayer, or, perhaps, of lamentation and despair. THAT HIS ADVERSARIES... — Better, _that those round about him should be his adversa...
פֵּֽרְשָׂ֨ה צִיֹּ֜ון בְּ יָדֶ֗יהָ אֵ֤ין מְנַחֵם֙...
ZION'S APPEAL Lamentations 1:12 IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle of the s...
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...
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] around him: Jerusalem is (r) as a menstruous woman amon...
_Then. They surround the city, to starve the inhabitants, ver. 8._...
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my tra...
The Prophet first says that _Jerusalem had expanded her hands_, as a token of sorrow, or that she might seek friends from every side; for when we wish to move men to pity, we stretch forth our arms. I...
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...
ZION SPREADETH FORTH HER HANDS,.... Either as submitting to the conqueror, and imploring mercy; or rather as calling to her friends to help and relieve her. The Targum is, "Zion spreadeth out her han...
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman amo...
_Zion spreadeth forth her hands_ She extendeth her hands as a suppliant praying for relief and consolation. _And there is none to comfort her_ None who can, or are even inclined to do it. _The Lord ha...
THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, in a gesture imploring help, AND THERE IS NONE TO COMFORT HER; THE LORD HATH COMMANDED CONCERNING JACOB THAT HIS ADVERSARIES SHOULD BE ROUND ABOUT HIM, his very neighbo...
12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...
The same in this verse is meant by _Zion, Jacob, and Jerusalem_, unless Zion more specially signifieth the Jews considered as a church, because of the temple built upon it. She spreadeth out her hands...
Lamentations 1:17 Zion H6726 out H6566 (H8765) hands H3027 comforts H5162 (H8764) LORD H3068 commanded H6680
JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which Jerusalem...
JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BEHOLD HER PITIABLE STATE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). Lamentations 1:12 (Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see, If there be any sorrow like to...
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...
_The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men._ SUPREME PENALTIES 1. When God meaneth to afflict us, He will spoil us of all our helps wherein we may have any confidence. 2. God can as easily...
_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_ ZION’S APPEAL 1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy. Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be passi...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...
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 Kings 8:22; 1 Kings 8:38; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Kings 25:1; Ezekiel 36:17
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...
Jerusalem — Is become loathsome and filthy....