The Lord is righteous... — An echo from Jeremiah 12:1; 2 Chronicles 12:6. Misery does its work, and issues in repentance. The suffering comes from the all-righteous Judge. It is, perhaps, significant that with this beginning of conversion the name “Jehovah” reappears.
All people... — Better, all peoples. Those addressed are the heathen nations, who are summoned to gaze on the desolate mourners.
PEOPLE - peoples, pagan 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...
IS. Hebrew. He [is]. PEOPLE. peoples....
See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....
_I have rebelled against his commandment_ See on Lamentations 1:5. The Targ. strangely explains the _v_. as having reference to Josiah's defeat and death at Megiddo (b.c. 608)....
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...
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS; FO...
1:18 commandment. (e-10) Lit. 'his mouth.'...
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...
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...
צַדִּ֥יק ה֛וּא יְהוָ֖ה כִּ֣י פִ֣יהוּ מָרִ֑יתִי...
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...
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...
Jerusalem again acknowledges, and more clearly expresses, that she suffered a just punishment. She had before confessed that her enemies were cruel through God’s command; but it was necessary to point...
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...
THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS,.... Or, "righteous [is] he the Lord" g; in all these dispensations of his providence, how afflictive and severe soever they may seem to be; however the enemies of the church and...
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. Ver. 18. _The Lord is righ...
_The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled_, &c. He does me no wrong in dealing thus with me, nor can I charge him with any injustice. Observe, reader, whatever the troubles are which God is pleased...
THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
The Lord is righteous, just in His treatment of the rebellious city; FOR I HAVE REBELLED AGAINST HIS COMMANDMENT. HEAR, I PRAY YOU, ALL PEOPLE, AND BEHOLD MY SORROW, since she feels the need of sympat...
COMMANDMENT: _ Heb._ mouth...
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 prophet either directeth those that feared God what they should say, or expresseth what many of them did say in the name of the rest, acknowledging both the Lord's justice and faithfulness, becaus...
Lamentations 1:18 LORD H3068 righteous H6662 rebelled H4784 (H8804) commandment H6310 Hear H8085 (H8798) peoples...
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 is righteous; for I have rebelled._ A RIGHT VIEW OF PUNISHMENT When we see God in our punishments, we begin to take a right view of them; when they are nothing to us but self-humiliations o...
_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....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:18 Jerusalem confesses that God IS IN THE RIGHT (see Psalms 51:4) for judging her rebellion. but hear
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 13:21; 1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Samuel 12:15
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...