They say... — The words seem to paint what was actually passing before the writer’s eye, but may be the vivid present which represents the past. The children cried for food, and their mothers had none to give them. They were like wounded men at their last gasp, and breathed out their life as they clung in their despair to their mothers’ breasts.
Verse 12. _WHEN THEIR SOUL WAS POURED OUT INTO THEIR MOTHERS'_ _BOSOM._] When, in endeavouring to draw nourishment from the breasts of their exhausted mothers, they breathed their last in their bosoms...
THEY SAY - Or, “They keep saying:” it was an oft-repeated cry, even while expiring upon their mother’s bosom....
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...
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
_corn and wine_ Omit "and wine," not only from the nature of the case, and for the sake of correct metre, but because the Heb. word is not that elsewhere used in combination with "corn." _their soul...
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...
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. WHEN THEY SWOONED AS THE WOUN...
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...
The picture of helpless, innocent children crying in vain for food is touching....
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...
לְ אִמֹּתָם֙ יֹֽאמְר֔וּ אַיֵּ֖ה דָּגָ֣ן וָ יָ
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...
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The L...
There is either a personification in the words of the Prophet, or he speaks now of another party, for he cannot refer now to children sucking their mothers’ breasts, for they could not have expressly...
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...
THEY SAY TO THEIR MOTHERS, WHERE [IS] CORN AND WINE?.... Not the sucklings who could not speak, nor were used to corn and wine, but the children more grown; both are before spoken of, but these are me...
They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. Ver. 12. _They say to their...
_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...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
They say to their mothers, as they are tortured with the pangs of hunger, WHERE IS CORN AND WINE? anything to eat, when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, faint with weakness for...
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 little children, ignorant of the cause of the failure of their usual food, called to their mothers for it as formerly, being ready to faint and die, as men mortally wounded, for want of spirits an...
Lamentations 2:12 say H559 (H8799) mothers H517 grain H1715 wine H3196 swoon H5848 (H8692) wounded H2491 str
THE SAD STATE OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:10). The prophet now describes in retrospect the sad state of the people of Jerusalem during and after the terrible siege. The elders were in m...
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.— (כ) Lamentations 2:11. So exasperating is his misery that he feels as if organic parts of his body were dismembered. MY EYES FAIL WITH TEARS, MY BOWELS ARE TROUBLED, MY LIVER IS POU...
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...
Ezekiel 30:24; Isaiah 53:12...
Bosom — When they died in their mother's arms....