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Verse 16. _THIS_ IS _THE DAY THAT WE LOOKED FOR_] Jerusalem was the
envy of the surrounding nations: they longed for its destruction, and
rejoiced when it took place....
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SEEN IT - Omit “it.” The intensity of the enemy’s exultation is
shown by the heaping up of unconnected words. We have found what we
sought, have seen what we looked for....
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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...
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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...
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ALL, &C. In some Codices, with Syriac, Lamentations 2:16 and
Lamentations 2:17 are transposed to bring the letters _Ayin_ and _Pe_
into alphabetical order. The Septuagint leaves the verses, but
transp...
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Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
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For the inverted order of the initial letters in the Heb. of this and
the next _v_., see Intr., p. 321.
_All thine enemies … against thee_ almost identical with
Lamentations 3:46. Löhr refers for the...
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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...
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and
gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is
the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it...
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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...
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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...
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פָּצ֨וּ עָלַ֤יִךְ פִּיהֶם֙ כָּל
־אֹ֣ויְבַ֔יִךְ שָֽׁרְקוּ֙...
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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...
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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...
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_Mouth, with scorn, Isaias lvii. 4., and Psalm xxxiv. 21._...
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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...
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Here, also, the Prophet introduces enemies as insolently exulting over
the miseries of the people. He first says, that they had opened the
mouth, even that they might loudly upbraid them; for he is no...
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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...
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ALL THINE ENEMIES HAVE OPENED THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THEE,.... Or
"widened" x them; stretched them out as far as they could, to
reproach, blaspheme, and insult; or, like gaping beasts, to swallow up
and...
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and
gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this
[is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen...
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_All thine enemies have opened their mouths against thee_ As if they
were ready to devour thee: see the margin. Or they have opened them in
scoffs, reproaches, and insults. _They hiss and gnash their...
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THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee, in a gesture
of mockery and derision; THEY HISS AND GNASH THE TEETH, as an
expression of satisfied rage, of vindictive malice. THEY SAY, WE HAVE...
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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...
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As strangers that had no quarrels with nor prejudices against the
Jews, passing by their country, and their great city Jerusalem,
despised and scorned it; so their enemies with whom they had former
qu...
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Lamentations 2:16 enemies H341 (H8802) opened H6475 (H8804) mouth
H6310 hiss H8319 (H8804) gnash H2786 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_HOMILETICS_
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ם) Lamentations 2:15. Casual strangers on their travels felt glad at
sight of desolated Jerusalem. THEY CLAP THEIR HANDS AT THEE, ALL WHO
PASS BY THE WAY, and add sco...
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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.
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:43; Deuteronomy 28:44; Deuteronomy
29:18;...