The habitations of Jacob... — The term is used primarily for the dwellings of shepherds, and it accordingly stands here for the open unwalled villages as contrasted with the fortified towns that are here mentioned.
He hath polluted the kingdom. — See Psalms 89:39. The term involves the thought that it had been a consecrated thing. It had become unclean, first through the sins, and then through the defeat and degradation, of its rulers.
Verse Lamentations 2:2. _THE LORD HATH SWALLOWED UP_] It is a strange figure when thus applied: but Jehovah is here represented as having swallowed down Jerusalem and all the cities and fortifications...
HABITATIONS - The dwellings of the shepherds in the pastures Jeremiah 49:19. These are described as swallowed up by an earthquake, while the storm itself throws down the fortified cities of Judah. PO...
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...
SWALLOWED UP: i.e. as by an earthquake. HABITATIONS. the open villages of the shepherds, in contrast with the strongholds of the next lines....
Löhr restores the triple metre by some condensation and transposition. _habitations_ The word is that which is used for the dwellings and pasture grounds of shepherds, and thus refers to the country...
AND HATH NOT PITIED— _He hath not spared._ Houbigant....
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A BROKEN PEOPLE Lamentations 2:1-22 In content, form and theology chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter 1. Like chapter 1, the second chapter is also a national lament but the...
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he h...
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...
SWALLOWED UP] i.e. destroyed by earthquake. HABITATIONS] open villages of the shepherds. STRONG HOLDS] fortified towns....
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...
בִּלַּ֨ע אֲדֹנָ֜י _וְ_†_לֹ֣א_† חָמַ֗ל אֵ֚ת כָּל...
GOD AS AN ENEMY Lamentations 2:1 THE elegist, as we have seen, attributes the troubles of the Jews to the will and. action of God. In the second poem he even ventures further, and with daring logic p...
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...
_Unclean, or treated it as such. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "he hath accounted profane the kings." (Haydock) --- Joakim, Jechonias, Sedecias, and the royal family, were exposed to the greatest ignominy...
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...
He pursues the same subject, but in other words. He first says, that God _had without pardon destroyed all the habitations of Jacob_; some read, “all the beauty (or the ornament) of Jacob.” But the ot...
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...
THE LORD HATH SWALLOWED UP ALL THE HABITATIONS OF JACOB, AND HATH NOT PITIED,.... As he regarded not his own habitation the temple, nor the ark his footstool, it is no wonder he should be unconcerned...
_The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them] down to the ground: he...
_The Lord hath swallowed up the habitations_, &c. Without showing any pity or concern for them. _He hath thrown down the strong holds_, &c. Hath suffered the enemies to batter down their fortification...
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, the entire country being included in the ruin, AND HATH NOT PITIED, carrying out His judgment with merciless severity; HE HATH THROWN DOWN IN H...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
BROUGHT THEM DOWN: _ Heb._ made to couch...
1-9 A sad representation is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the notice seems mostly to refer to the hand of the Lord in their calamities. Yet God is not an enemy to h...
THE LORD HATH SWALLOWED UP ALL THE HABITATIONS OF JACOB, AND HATH NOT PITIED; as he hath had no respect to his own house, so he hath had much less respect to the common habitations of the Jews. HE HAT...
Lamentations 2:2 Lord H136 up H1104 (H8765) pitied H2550 (H8804) places H4999 Jacob H3290 down H2040 ...
THE LORD'S ANGER IS REVEALED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:1). In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger' (antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destruction on...
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...
_How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in ms anger._ CHASTISEMENTS 1. It is our duty to strive with ourselves to be affected with the miseries of God’s people. 2. The chastise...
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.— (א) Lamentations 2:1. The poet sees nature as if it were in commotion. A storm-cloud piles up over Jerusalem, shrouding with its gloom even the most commanding summit. But it is not...
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 Corinthians 10:4; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:4; Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 8:
Polluted — Dealt with them as with a polluted thing; cast them off, brake them in pieces....