Verse 19. Arise, cry out in the night] This seems to refer to Jerusalem besieged. Ye who keep the night watches, pour out your hearts before the Lord, instead of calling the time of night, c. or, when you call it, send up a fervent prayer to God for the safety and relief of the place.
IN - (or at) the beginning of the watches “At the beginning of each night-watch” means all the night through. The Hebrews divided the night into three watches....
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...
THE LORD*. This is the reading in some Codices, with one early printed edition....
The _v_. consists of _four_lines. Ewald and Budde (followed by Löhr) conclude independently that the last is a gloss suggested by Lamentations 2:12. _at the beginning of the watches_ i.e. of each watc...
III. THE PROPHET'S EXHORTATION TO HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:17-19 TRANSLATION (17) The LORD has done what He planned. He has fulfilled His word which He decreed in days of old. He has torn down witho...
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint f...
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...
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WATCHES — _i.e.,_ of each watch, so that the lamentation was continued throughout the night. LIFT UP THY HANDS. — The wall is still addressed in its character as a mourner, be...
ק֣וּמִי ׀ רֹ֣נִּי _בַ_†__†_לַּ֗יְלָה_† לְ רֹאשׁ֙...
THE CALL TO PRAYER Lamentations 2:18 IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its transitions are very abrupt....
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...
_Watches. Jerusalem is here represented in the midst of danger and misery. (Calmet)_...
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 now explains himself more clearly, and confirms what I have lately said, that he mentioned not the calamities of the people except for this end, that those who were almost stupid might beg...
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...
ARISE, CRY OUT IN THE NIGHT,.... That is, O daughter of Zion, or congregation of Israel, as the Targum; who are addressed and called upon by the prophet to arise from their beds, and shake off their s...
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint fo...
_Their heart cried unto the Lord_ “The same,” says Blaney, “are the speakers here who are said to have made the foregoing remarks concerning the distressed condition of Jerusalem, namely, the passenge...
THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
Arise, cry out in the night, throughout all the watches of the night; IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WATCHES, with the desire and strength for weeping renewed again and again, POUR OUT THINE HEART LIKE WATER...
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...
The prophet calls upon the Jews not to be slothful in this their very evil day, but to rise up from their beds, and either at the beginning of the four watches, or at the beginning of each watch, at a...
Lamentations 2:19 Arise H6965 (H8798) out H7442 (H8798) night H3915 beginning H7218 watches H821 out H8210
THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18). The change between Lame...
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...
_Arise, cry out in the night._ WATCHNIGHT SERVICE Methinks I might become a Jeremiah tonight, and weep as he, for surely the Church at large is in almost as evil a condition. Oh, Zion, how hast thou...
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...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:18 Now Jerusalem (DAUGHTER OF ZION) must cry out to God, just as the speaker (v. Lamentations 2:11) has cried
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (צ) Lamentations 2:18. THEIR HEART CRIED UNTO THE LORD. The cry is not to the God in covenant with Israel, but to the ruler over all nations and all matter. Yet the pronoun their ca...
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 Kings 6:28; 2 Kings 6:29; Deuteronomy 28:53; Deuteronomy 9:26;...