What does Lamentations 2:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:e therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together."
Verse 8. _HE HATH STRETCHED OUT A LINE_] The _line of devastation_; marking what was to be pulled down and demolished....
A LINE - Compare Isaiah 34:11. The destruction is systematic and thorough....
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...
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...
DESTROYING. swallowing up....
_stretched out the line_ i.e. marked for destruction. Cp. 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 34:2; Amos 7:7 ff. _destroying_ lit. as mg. _swallowing up_. _they languish together_ For the personification of rampa...
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...
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament;...
2:8 destroying; (c-26) Lit. 'swallowing up,' as vers. 2,5,16....
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 o...
HE HATH STRETCHED OUT A LINE. — The phrase implies (See Notes on 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 34:11; Amos 7:7) the systematic thoroughness of the work of destruction. HE MADE THE RAMPART. — Even the very st...
חָשַׁ֨ב יְהוָ֤ה ׀ לְ הַשְׁחִית֙ חֹומַ֣ת בַּת ־צִיֹּ֔ון נָ֣טָה קָ֔ו לֹא ־הֵשִׁ֥יב יָדֹ֖ו מִ בַּלֵּ֑עַ...
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...
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...
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart (h) and the wall to lame...
_Line, to level it with the ground, (Isaias xxxiv. 11.; Calmet) or to treat it with just severity. (Theodoret) --- Bulwark. Literally, "the first wall," (Haydock) or ditch, lined with palisades. Alexa...
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...
The verb to _think_, has more force than what is commonly assigned to it; for it would be very flat to say, that God _thought to destroy_; but to think here means to resolve or to decree. (153) This i...
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...
THE LORD HATH PURPOSED TO DESTROY THE WALL OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION,.... Either the wall of the city, as Aben Ezra; or the wall that encompassed the temple, and all the outward courts of it, as Dr. Lig...
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament;...
_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...
A DESCRIPTION OF JEHOVAH'S JUDGMENT...
DESTROYING: _ Heb._ swallowing up...
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 hi...
The term WALL in this verse seemeth to be taken in a metaphorical sense, for the strength and security of the Jews (the strength and security of a place lying much in ifs walls). HE HATH STRETCHED OUT...
Lamentations 2:8 LORD H3068 purposed H2803 (H8804) destroy H7843 (H8687) wall H2346 daughter H1323 Zion H6726 out H5186 (H8804) line H6957 withdrawn H7725 (H8689) hand H3027 destroying H1104 (H8763) r...
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 o...
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...
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 inh...
_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...
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._ Jerusalem. CAST DOWN FROM HEAVEN....
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 footstoo...
2 Kings 21:13; 2 Samuel 8:2; Amos 7:7; Amos 7:8; Ezekiel 20:22; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 5:5; Jeremiah 14:2;...
The wall — The strength and security of the Jews. A line — Artificers used with lines not only to mark out places for building, but also for destruction, to direct them what to cut off; and such a lin...