Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Lamentations 4:15
Verse 15. When they fled away] These priests and prophets were so bad, that the very heathen did not like to permit them to sojourn among them. The prophet now resumes the history of the siege.
Verse 15. When they fled away] These priests and prophets were so bad, that the very heathen did not like to permit them to sojourn among them. The prophet now resumes the history of the siege.
Men cried to these priests, “Away! Unclean! Away! Away! Touch not.” “Unclean” was the cry of the leper whenever he appeared in public: here it is the warning shout of those who meet the murderers. WH...
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...
DEPART YE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 18:46). HEATHEN. nations....
Those who met these blood-stained priests and prophets in the street abhorred them, and warned them off with the cry which the leper was himself to raise, _Unclean, unclean!_(Leviticus 13:45). Theirs...
SO THAT MEN COULD NOT TOUCH THEIR GARMENTS— _It could not be avoided but their garments must be touched._ Therefore the prophet immediately addresses the citizens of Jerusalem, Lamentations 4:15. _Dep...
II. AN EXPLANATION OF THE JUDGMENT Lamentations 4:11-20 TRANSLATION (11) The LORD has given vent to His wrath. He has poured out His fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has consumed h...
They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. THEY CRIED UNTO THEM, DEPA...
4:15 Unclean! (a-6) See Isaiah 52:11 ....
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...
THEY CRIED UNTO THEM] the people applied to them what lepers were required to declare of themselves, viz. Unclean! Unclean! (Leviticus 13:45). Theirs was spiritual leprosy. THEY SAID AMONG THE HEATHEN...
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...
THEY CRIED UNTO THEM — _i.e.,_ these, as they passed, cried to the blood-stained priests. The cry “unclean” was that uttered by the leper as a warning to those he met (Leviticus 13:45). Here it comes...
ס֣וּרוּ טָמֵ֞א קָ֣רְאוּ לָ֗מֹו ס֤וּרוּ ס֨וּרוּ֙...
LEPERS Lamentations 4:13 PASSING from the fate of the princes to that of the prophets and priests, we come upon a vividly dramatic scene in the streets of Jerusalem amid the terror and confusion that...
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...
_Depart. They were not ashamed to speak thus to others, or the citizens address the priests contaminated with blood. Even the Chaldeans looked upon the Jews with abhorrence, as an abandoned people. --...
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves...
The Prophet confirms the former verse, as I have said, even that no part of the city was free from filth, because they cried everywhere, “Depart, depart — unclean!” That what is said may be more evide...
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...
THEY CRIED UNTO THEM, DEPART YE, [IT IS] UNCLEAN,.... Or, O ye "unclean" e; that is, the people said so to the priests, being polluted with blood; they abhorred them, did not care they should come nig...
They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there]. Ver. 15. _They cried un...
_They have wandered as blind men in the streets_ They strayed from the paths of righteousness, and were blind to every thing that was good, but to do evil they were quick-sighted; _they have polluted...
God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests...
They, namely, the people of the city meeting them, CRIED UNTO THEM, DEPART YE! IT IS UNCLEAN; DEPART, DEPART, TOUCH NOT! thereby applying to them the call of warning used in the case of lepers, Leviti...
IT IS UNCLEAN: Or, ye polluted...
13-20 Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Divine vengeance pursues him. Our anointed King al...
The various application of the pronoun _they_ by interpreters makes them aa much divided in the sense of this as of the former verse. Either the Jews that made conscience of keeping to the law against...
Lamentations 4:15 cried H7121 (H8804) away H5493 (H8798) unclean H2931 away H5493 (H8798) away H5493 ...
JERUSALEM'S PREDICAMENT WAS LARGELY DUE TO THE PRIESTS AND THE PROPHETS WHO WOULD SUFFER ACCORDINGLY (LAMENTATIONS 4:12). The prophet now draws attention to the fact of how much of Jerusalem's predic...
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...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (מ) Lamentations 4:13. It is needful to connect this verse with the last by words like, _This incredible thing came to pass,_ BECAUSE OF THE SINS OF HER PROPHETS, THE INIQUITIES OF...
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...
2 Corinthians 6:17; Leviticus 13:45; Micah 2:10; Numbers 16:26;...
Touch not — The Jews that made conscience of keeping the law against touching dead bodies, cried to the other Jews to leave the city as themselves did, the city being now so full of dead bodies that t...