Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Lamentations 5:10
Verse 10. Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine.] Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine.
Verse 10. Our skin was black - because of the terrible famine.] Because of the searching winds that burnt up every green thing, destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine.
OUR SKIN ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the fever-blast “of famine.”...
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
The feverishness and wasting brought on by hunger is meant. _black_ or as mg. _hot_....
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. OUR SKIN WAS BLACK LIKE AN OVEN - as an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (margin, rightly,...
5:10 gloweth (e-3) * Or 'fiery red,' as 'burned,' Genesis 43:30 ; 'yearned,' 1 Kings 3:26 ; 'kindled,' Hosea 11:8 ....
ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...
BLACK] RM 'hot.' TERRIBLE FAMINE] RV 'burning heat of famine.'...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
OUR SKIN WAS BLACK...-Better, _fiery red,_ and for “terrible famine,” _the fever-blast of famine._ The words paint the hot fever of hunger rather than the livid paleness of exhaustion....
עֹורֵ֨נוּ֙ כְּ תַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִ פְּנֵ֖י...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures that have...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Some read, “for tremors;” literally, “from the face of tremors.” Jerome renders it, “tempests,” but the word “burnings” is the most suitable; for he says that their skins were darkened, and he compare...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
OUR SKIN WAS BLACK LIKE AN OVEN, BECAUSE OF THE TERRIBLE FAMINE. Or "terrors [and horrors of] famine"; which are very dreadful and distressing: or, "the storms of famine"; see Psalms 11:6; or, "burnin...
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. Ver. 10. _Our skin was black like an oven._] Or, As a chimney, Isa 31:9 being still beaten upon with the fire that is within it, _ Bec...
_Our fathers have sinned, and are not_ Death hath secured our fathers from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Jere...
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine, glowing with the heat of fever brought on by their condition....
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
TERRIBLE: Or, terrors or storms...
1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient u...
The want of bread caused leanness, and paleness, and ill colours in their faces....
Lamentations 5:10 skin H5785 hot H3648 (H8738) oven H8574 Because H6440 fever H2152 famine H7458 skin -...
Our skin is stirred up (or ‘black') like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. The starvation conditions in which they were living had had its effect on their bodies. Their skin glowed like...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
_Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us._ AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSION The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his God...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:10. The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. OUR SKIN IS HOT LIKE AN OVEN; the feverishness is BECAUSE O...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
Job 30:30; Lamentations 3:4; Lamentations 4:8; Psalms 119:83...