Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Lamentations 1:11
Verse 11. They have given their pleasant things] Jerusalem is compared to a woman brought into great straits, who parts with her jewels and trinkets in order to purchase by them the necessaries of life.
Verse 11. They have given their pleasant things] Jerusalem is compared to a woman brought into great straits, who parts with her jewels and trinkets in order to purchase by them the necessaries of life.
SIGH ... SEEK - Are sighing ... are seeking. The words are present participles, describing the condition of the people. After a siege lasting a year and a half the whole country, far and near, would b...
CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once sh...
LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
The people have already given up their most valuable possessions, that they had hitherto hoarded, for bread. There is therefore nothing now between them and starvation. _meat_ food. Cp. note on "obla...
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. ALL HER PEOPLE SIGH, THEY SEEK BREAD - (; ,...
1:11 soul. (a-19) Or 'life.'...
ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intimated...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT LAMENTATIONS We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...
ALL HER PEOPLE SIGH.... — The words which describe the famine at Jerusalem are in the present tense, either as painting the sufferings of the past with the vividness of the historic present, or becaus...
כָּל ־עַמָּ֤הּ נֶאֱנָחִים֙ מְבַקְּשִׁ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם נָתְנ֧וּ _מַחֲמַדֵּיהֶ֛ם_
SIN AND SUFFERING Lamentations 1:8 THE doctrinaire rigour of Judaism in its uncompromising association of moral and physical evils has led to an unreasonable disregard for the solid truth which lies...
In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...
_O. Hebrew of the Masorets, "It is." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Is it nothing to you, all?" &c. (Haydock) --- But the Vulgate is much clearer, and approved by many Protestants, lu being often used as...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her sk...
The Prophet here complains that all the citizens of Jerusalem were constantly groaning through want and famine. He first says, that _all were sighing_. The word “people” is collective, and hence he us...
There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...
ALL HER PEOPLE SIGH,.... Not her priests only, Lamentations 1:4; but all the common people, because of their affliction, particularly for want of bread. So the Targum, "all the people of Jerusalem si...
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. Ver. 11. _All her people sigh._] And so thin...
_The adversary hath_ Or rather, _did, spread his hand upon all her pleasant things_ Hebrew, מחמדיה, _her desirable things_, namely, her riches, and what else she most desired to preserve. _She hath se...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
All her people sigh, with the calamity of the severe famine as a further cause for groaning, THEY SEEK BREAD; THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR PLEASANT THINGS FOR MEAT TO RELIEVE THE SOUL, no valuables being too...
RELIEVE THE SOUL: Or, to make the soul to come again...
1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation. Je...
He speaketh probably with reference to the siege, after which the people had scarcely any pleasant things to exchange for bread. The whole body of the people was in a sad condition; and in a land that...
Lamentations 1:11 people H5971 sigh H584 (H8737) seek H1245 (H8764) bread H3899 given H5414 (H8804) valuabl
WHAT JERUSALEM HAS BECOME (LAMENTATIONS 1:8). Having outlined what Jerusalem had lost the prophet now turns his thoughts to what she has become. She has become like a menstrual woman whose situation i...
THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah. Appeal to God for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon...
This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...
_All her people sigh, they seek bread._ GRIEF AT LOSSES I. It is awful for the godly to be grieved with and take to heart their worldly losses-- (1) Because the things of this life are God’s blessi...
_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed._ THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH The emphatic word is “therefore.” It rings with sad and solemn cadence through the most mournful of all the books...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ח) Lamentations 1:8. JERUSALEM HAS SINNED A SIN, has broken the law of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty; THEREFORE SHE IS BECOME AS AN UNCLEAN ONE; not...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations. The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it appear...
1 Samuel 30:11; 1 Samuel 30:12; 2 Kings 6:25; Deuteronomy 28:52;...
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Lamentations 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...
Bread — Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and honey, they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given — And gave any thing for something to satisfy their hunger. Vile — Miserable or contempti...