As for us... — Better, Still do our eyes waste away, looking for our vain help.
In our watching. — Better, upon our watch-tower. (Comp. Habakkuk 2:1.) The people of Judah are represented as looking out for the approach of an ally, probably Egypt (Jeremiah 37:7), and looking in vain.
Verse 17. _WE HAVE WATCHED FOR A NATION_] Viz., the Egyptians, who were their pretended allies, but were neither _able_ nor _willing_ to help them against the Chaldeans....
A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king. Lamentations 4:17 Rather, “Still do our eyes waste away looking for our vain help.” IN OUR WATCHING - Or, “on our watchtowe...
CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed: How is the gold become dim...
LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
The expectation that Egypt or some other nation might come to the rescue, was cherished throughout the year and a half of the siege, and here is set forth the heart-sickness caused by this hope deferr...
AS FOR US, OUR EYES AS YET FAILED— _While we yet continued, our eyes failed with the vain expectation of help._ Houbigant....
II. AN EXPLANATION OF THE JUDGMENT Lamentations 4:11-20 TRANSLATION (11) The LORD has given vent to His wrath. He has poured out His fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has consumed h...
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. AS FOR US, OUR EYES AS YET FAILED - or, rather, 'fail.' This translation for...
ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom. In...
RV 'Our eyes do yet fail _in looking_ for our vain help.' Egypt or some other expected ally disappoints (Jeremiah 37:7; Isaiah 36:6)....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 4 JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK. V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has changed! The stones of the *temple...
_עֹודֵ֨ינוּ֙_† תִּכְלֶ֣ינָה עֵינֵ֔ינוּ אֶל ־עֶזְרָתֵ֖נוּ הָ֑בֶל...
VAIN HOPES Lamentations 4:17 THE first part of the fourth elegy was specially concerned with the fate of the gilded youth of Jerusalem; the second and closely parallel part with that of the princes;...
The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for (l) a nation [that] could not save [us]. (l) He shows two principal causes for their destruction: their cruelt...
_Save. The Egyptians attempted it in vain, chap. xxxiv. 8., and xxxvii. 10._...
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves...
Here the Prophet charges the people with another crime, that neglecting God, and even despising his favor, they had always attached themselves to vain and false hopes. And this was a sacrilege not to...
Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
AS FOR US, OUR EYES AS YET FAILED FOR OUR VAIN HELP,.... Or, "while we were yet" h; a nation, a people, a body politic, in our own land, before the city of Jerusalem was taken, we were looking for hel...
_As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us]._ Ver. 17. _As for us, our eyes as yet failed._] With long and vain looki...
_As for us_, &c. The prophet, after having digressed in the last five verses to make observation on the wickedness of those who had been the principal cause of the national ruin, here returns again to...
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help, that is, the Jews, still hoping for the assistance of Egypt and other allied nations, were deeply disappointed; IN OUR WATCHING WE HAVE WATCHED FOR...
God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests...
13-20 Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Divine vengeance pursues him. Our anointed King al...
That is, in expectation of the Egyptians, whom they waited for to raise the siege; it was a long time before they came, and When they did come, they could do them no service at all, JEREMIAH 37:5,7,8....
Lamentations 4:17 eyes H5869 failed H3615 (H8799) vainly H1892 help H5833 watching H6836 watched H6822 (H8765
JERUSALEM'S PREDICAMENT WAS LARGELY DUE TO THE PRIESTS AND THE PROPHETS WHO WOULD SUFFER ACCORDINGLY (LAMENTATIONS 4:12). The prophet now draws attention to the fact of how much of Jerusalem's predic...
CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah. Sins of the leaders acknowledged. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the mea...
Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ע) Lamentations 4:17 refers to the persons remaining in the city, who, notwithstanding that God’s righteous judgments had so afflicted prophets and priests, yet thought longingly o...
THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING. EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 4:1 HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas f
The fourth lamentation: How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
2 Kings 24:7; Ezekiel 29:16; Ezekiel 29:6; Ezekiel 29:7; Isaiah 20:5;...
A nation — The Egyptians....