Verse 9. Her gates are sunk into the ground] The consequence of their being long thrown down and neglected. From this it appears that the captivity had already lasted a considerable time.
Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles] Zedekiah and many of the princes were then prisoners in Babylon, another proof that the captivity had endured some time, unless all this be spoken prophetically, of what should be done.
HER GATES ARE SUNK INTO THE GROUND - So completely destroyed, that one might suppose they had been swallowed up in an abyss. HER KING - The prophet’s lamentation, occupied before chiefly with the bui...
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...
GROUND. earth. HER KING, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:36). App-92. GENTILES. nations. THE LAW IS NO MORE: i.e. is no longer known and obeyed. Compare Nehemiah 13:1, and Esd Lam 14:20...
The walls were broken down and the gates removed (2 Kings 25:10; Jeremiah 52:14) to preclude rebellion. Cp. Ezra 4:12 ff....
_Her gates, etc_.] The Targ. preserves a tradition that the enemy slew a pig and sprinkled the blood over them. _destroyed and broken_ One of the verbs must be struck out for the sake of metre. _Her...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A BROKEN PEOPLE Lamentations 2:1-22 In content, form and theology chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter 1. Like chapter 1, the second chapter is also a national lament but the...
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. HER G...
HER GATES ARE SUNK INTO THE GROUND] a metaphor expressing their total destruction, not a vestige being left above ground. THE LAW _is_ NO _more_] including the national ritual and government. HER PROP...
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...
HER GATES... — The picture of ruin is completed. The gates are broken, and hidden by heaps of rubbish as if they had been buried in the earth; they cannot be closed, for the bars are gone. King and pr...
טָבְע֤וּ בָ † אָ֨רֶץ֙ שְׁעָרֶ֔יהָ אִבַּ֥ד וְ...
GOD AS AN ENEMY Lamentations 2:1 THE elegist, as we have seen, attributes the troubles of the Jews to the will and. action of God. In the second poem he even ventures further, and with daring logic p...
PROPHETS WITHOUT A VISION Lamentations 2:9; Lamentations 2:14 IN deploring the losses suffered by the daughter of Zion the elegist bewails the failure of her prophets to obtain a vision from Jehovah....
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...
_Among, as slaves, or in prison. --- Law has been neglected; and now it cannot be observed, as to the ceremonial part. There are no public instructions. --- No vision. When Jeremias was consulted, he...
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The L...
He again relates in other words what he had said, that the walls of Jerusalem had fallen. But he now speaks of the gates and says, that they had _sunk into the ground_, or had become fixed in the grou...
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...
HER GATES ARE SUNK INTO THE GROUND,.... Either the gates of the city or temple, or both; being broke and demolished, and laid level with the ground, and covered with rubbish; for as for the Midrash, o...
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more]; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. V...
_The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of Zion_ The word _wall_ is here to be taken in a metaphorical sense, for the strength and security of the city. _He hath stretched out a line_, &c. Called...
Her gates are sunk into the ground, buried under a mass of rubbish and earth, which the destruction of the city has scattered over them; HE HATH DESTROYED AND BROKEN HER BARS, with which the gates wer...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
1-9 A sad representation is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the notice seems mostly to refer to the hand of the Lord in their calamities. Yet God is not an enemy to h...
HER GATES ARE SUNK INTO THE GROUND; that is, the gates of Jerusalem are destroyed and covered over with rubbish. HE HATH DESTROYED AND BROKEN HER BARS; the bolts of the gates are broken. HER KING AND...
Lamentations 2:9 gates H8179 sunk H2883 (H8804) ground H776 destroyed H6 (H8765) broken H7665 (H8765) bars...
THE LORD'S ANGER IS REVEALED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:1). In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger' (antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destruction on...
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...
_He hath violently taken away His tabernacle._ DIVINE DESTRUCTION Jehovah is here represented as throwing down His own temple, as treating it as if it were a temporary shelter, as disregarding all it...
_How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in ms anger._ CHASTISEMENTS 1. It is our duty to strive with ourselves to be affected with the miseries of God’s people. 2. The chastise...
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 2:9 God caused loss of protection (GATES, BARS, walls [v. Lamentations 2:7]), loss of leade
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ו) Lamentations 2:6. The dwelling-place of Jehovah on Mount Zion, which He claims as His own possession, with all its appointed services, has shared in the tribulations. HE HAS TRE...
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 Chronicles 15:3; 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 25:7; Amos 8:11; Amos 8:12
Among the Gentiles — In miserable captivity. The law — Is no more read, opened or observed. Her prophets — They had but very few prophets, from this time to the time of the gospel, and very few of tho...