CONTENTS.
In twenty-two verses, corresponding to the number of the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, the Prophet mourns the desolations of his people, and his beloved city Jerusalem. He confesseth sin, and acknowledgeth the justice of the divine judgments.
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH _Chronological notes relative to the Book of the Lamentations_ - Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3416. - Year of the Jewish era of the world, 317...
In these two verses is the same sad image as appears in the well-known medal of Titus, struck to celebrate his triumph over Jerusalem. A woman sits weeping beneath a palm-tree, and below is the legend...
CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once sh...
LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...
HOW. Alas! or,. how! Hebrew. _'eykah_. an exclamation of pain and grief,. wailing cry (preserved in Eng. " _jackal_ "). The _Massorah_ (App-30) points out that this exclamation is used by three prophe...
_How_ The Heb. (_"Ekhâh_), which occurs also at the commencement of chs. 2 and 4, as well as in Lamentations 1:2 of the latter, and may well have been a word introductory to funeral dirges, has suppli...
Löhr points out as special characteristics of this ch. the writer's yearning for revenge, and also his full recognition of the sin of his own time as well as of earlier generations. Lamentations 1:1 f...
HOW DOTH THE CITY SIT, &C.— Houbigant renders the first part of this verse thus, _How doth the city sit solitary! How is she become a widow, that was full of people!_ Cities are commonly described as...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A WIDOWED CITY Lamentations 1:1-22 Chapter one of Lamentations has two major divisions. In Lamentations 1:1-11 the prophet laments the present condition of Zion. Twice in this uni...
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! ['Aleph...
1:1 (a-0) In chs. 1 and 2 the initial letter of each verse, consisting of three parts or lines, follows the alphabetical order....
HOW] a characteristic word for the commencement of an elegy: cp. Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 4:1; Isaiah 14:4. SIT SOLITARY] in the sense of empty houses and deserted streets. PROVINCES] the neighb...
ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intimated...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT LAMENTATIONS We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...
I. (1) HOW DOTH THE CITY... — The poem of twenty-two verses divides itself into two symmetrical halves, (1) Lamentations 1:1, in which the prophet laments over Jerusalem; and (2) Lamentations 1:12, mo...
אֵיכָ֣ה ׀ יָשְׁבָ֣ה בָדָ֗ד הָ עִיר֙ רַבָּ֣תִי...
DESOLATION Lamentations 1:1 THE first elegy is devoted to moving pictures of the desolation of Jerusalem and the sufferings of her people. It dwells upon these disasters themselves, with fewer refere...
In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...
How doth (a) the city sit desolate, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, (b) [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become a sla...
City. David had conquered many. Jerusalem was long considered as the finest city in those parts. --- Tributary. It had been so to the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Chaldeans, 4 Kings xxiv. 1. From this an...
The Prophet could not sufficiently express the greatness of the calamity, except by expressing his astonishment. He then assumes the person of one who on seeing something new and unexpected is filled...
There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...
HOW DOTH THE CITY SIT SOLITARY, THAT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE!.... These are the words of Jeremiah; so the Targum introduces them, "Jeremiah the prophet and high priest said;'' and began thus, "how"; not...
How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary! V...
_How doth the city sit solitary_ The short history of the desolations of the Jewish nation, contained in the fifty-second chapter of Jeremiah, formerly stood as a preface to the Lamentations; but, ins...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! It is a strong expression of horrified astonishment over the fact that the formerly populous city is now lonely and deserted, sitting alone in d...
1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation. Je...
LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the former excellency and present misery of Jerusalem for her sin, LAMENTATIONS 1:1 . She complaineth of her grief, LAMENTATIONS 1:12; confesseth God's judgme...
Lamentations 1:1 lonely H910 sits H3427 (H8804) city H5892 full H7227 people H5971 widow H490 great H7227 natio
THE PROPHET PINES OVER WHAT JERUSALEM HAS LOST (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). In these opening verses (Lamentations 1:1) Jerusalem is pictured by the writer in terms of how it now was, an empty city, a widow and...
THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah. Appeal to God for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon...
This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...
_That was fall of people! _ REVERSES OF FORTUNE The picture in this verse is strong by contrasts: solitary, and full of people; a widow, once a queen great among the nations; a princess receiving ho...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:1 present the city as she is in sharp contrast with what she was, and as an object of deep distress, on account of her sins and their penalties. The verses have a pi...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations. The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it appear...
1 Kings 4:21; 2 Chronicles 9:26; 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 23:35;...
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Lamentations 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...
A widow — She that had a king, or rather a God, that was an husband to her, now was forsaken of God, and her king taken from her....