Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Lamentations 2:15
Verse 15. The perfection of beauty] This probably only applied to the temple. Jerusalem never was a fine or splendid city; but the temple was most assuredly the most splendid building in the world.
Verse 15. The perfection of beauty] This probably only applied to the temple. Jerusalem never was a fine or splendid city; but the temple was most assuredly the most splendid building in the world.
Compare the scene round the cross of the Redeemer Matthew 27:39....
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...
PASS BY. pass by the way. SAYING. Note the _Ellipsis_ of this verb, which is very frequent in Hebrew. See Psalms 109:5. Psa 114:12, &c. IS... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...
Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
_They hiss and wag their head_ expressions denoting amazement mixed with contempt. Cp. Jeremiah 18:16; 2 Kings 19:21; Job 27:23; Psalms 22:7;...
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...
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? CLAP...
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...
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...
ALL THAT PASS BY. — The triumphant exultation of the enemies of Zion came to add bitterness to her sorrows. They reminded her of what she had been in the past, and contrasted it with her present desol...
סָֽפְק֨וּ עָלַ֤יִךְ כַּפַּ֨יִם֙ כָּל ־עֹ֣בְרֵי דֶ֔רֶךְ...
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...
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...
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...
The Prophet here reminds the Jews of the miseries by which they had been already in an extreme measure afflicted, so that these words seem redundant and somewhat unkind; for unseasonable is reproof wh...
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...
ALL THAT PASS BY CLAP [THEIR] HANDS AT THEE,.... Travellers that passed by, and saw Jerusalem in ruins, clapped their hands at it, by way of rejoicing, as well pleased at the sight. This must be under...
All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?...
_All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss_, &c. These were gestures of derision, whereby the enemies of the Jews expressed a satisfaction in their calamities; _saying, Is this the city tha...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
All that pass by clap their hands at thee, in scorn and mockery; THEY HISS AND WAG THEIR HEAD AT THE DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM, SAYING, in expressing the derision which they felt, IS THIS THE CITY THAT ME...
BY: _ Heb._ by the way...
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...
This was according to God's threatenings, 1 KINGS 9:8 JEREMIAH 18:16, JEREMIAH 19:8. God had poured out all his blessings upon this people, whatsoever might adorn them, or make them happy, so as all p...
Lamentations 2:15 pass H5674 (H8802) clap H5606 (H8804) hands H3709 you H1870 hiss H8319 (H8804) shake...
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...
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...
_An that pass by clap their hands at thee._ DERIDING THE DISTRESSED 1. God is wont to whip His children for their sins, by the multitude of unbelievers that hate the truth (Isaiah 10:5; Jeremiah 25:9...
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...
_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...
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...
Acts 7:54; Ezekiel 25:15; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 25:6; Ezekiel 36:3;...