Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker... — We look, as it were, on the two pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, spectral looks of starvation.
Their visage is blacker... — We look, as it were, on the two pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, spectral looks of starvation.
THEIR VISAGE ... - Their form (their whole person, see 1 Samuel 28:14)... as in the margin. See Job 30:30. IT IS WITHERED, IT IS BECOME LIKE A STICK - Or, It has become dry like a piece of wood....
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...
KNOWN. recognized....
Cp. Lamentations 4:1. The emaciation produced by famine and hardship is vividly pourtrayed. Cp. Job 19:20; Job 30:30....
_blacker than a coal_ lit. as mg. _darker than blackness_. _Their skin cleaveth to their bones_ Cp. Job 19:20....
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE A RUINED KINGDOM Lamentations 4:1-22 The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s 1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines instea...
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. THEIR VISAGE IS BLACKER THAN A COAL - or, 'than...
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...
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...
חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִ שְּׁחֹור֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔ם לֹ֥א נִכְּר֖וּ...
CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two...
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...
Their (e) visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. (e) They who were before most in God's favou...
_Coals. Hebrew, "blackness." Septuagint, "soot." (Haydock) --- The people were naturally brown. Fasting and distress cause them to turn black, chap. v. 10., and Joel ii. 6. (Calmet) --- They were so c...
How is the gold become dim! how is 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 gold, how are they e...
Now, on the contrary, he says that the _Nazarites were become withered, that their skin clave to their bones, _that, in short, they were so deformed that they could not be known, not only in obscure c...
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...
THEIR VISAGE IS BLACKER THAN A COAL,.... Or, "darker than blackness"; or, "dark through blackness" y; by reason of the famine, and because of grief and trouble for themselves and their friends, which...
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. Ver. 8. _Their visage is blacker than a coal._]...
_Her Nazarites were purer than snow_ It seems the word, נזיריה, ought not to be translated here _Nazarites_, or those who were _separated_ by a vow to God; but _princes_, or _chief men:_ so Waterland...
JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
Their visage, now that the calamity has come upon them, IS BLACKER THAN A COAL, than blackness, or soot; THEY ARE NOT KNOWN IN THE STREETS, because their appearance is so dreadfully altered; THEIR SKI...
BLACKER THEN A COLE: _ Heb._ darker than blackness...
1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
They that in the prosperity of the city were fair, plump, and ruddy, look now black for want of fit nourishment, and through sorrow and grief; insomuch that those who before knew them by their counten...
Lamentations 4:8 appearance H8389 blacker H2821 (H8804) soot H7815 unrecognized H5234 (H8738) streets H2351 skin...
THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 4:1). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (precious) sto...
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...
A BLACK FACE Their visage is blacker than a coal. Lamentations 4:8. We all know what it is to have a black face. There are three kinds of black faces in the world. Some people have all three, a goo...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:8 BLACKER THAN SOOT. A compete reversal of v. Lamentations 4:7....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to their instincts...
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...
Isaiah 52:14; Job 19:20; Job 2:12; Job 30:17; Job 30:30;...
Not known — So that those who before knew them, do not know them now....