Lamentations 5:15
What meaning of the lamentations 5:15 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 5:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
What does Lamentations 5:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
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...
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...
_THE JOY OF OUR HEART IS CEASED; OUR DANCE IS TURNED INTO MOURNING._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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 po...
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....
שָׁבַת֙ מְשֹׂ֣ושׂ לִבֵּ֔נוּ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְ אֵ֖בֶל מְחֹלֵֽנוּ׃...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The preceding p...
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...
He pursues the same subject, but he seems more clearly to explain what he had briefly stated in the preceding verse, when he says that _all joy of the heart had ceased, and that all the dances were tu...
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...
THE JOY OF OUR HEART IS CEASED,.... ward joy was gone, as well as the external signs of it: it "sabbatized" y, as it may be rendered; alluding perhaps to the cordial joy expressed formerly on their sa...
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. Ver. 15. _The joy of our heart is ceased._] Heb., Keepeth Sabbath, _i.e., _ is vanished, and that because we made not God's Sabbath...
_Princes are hanged up by their hand_ By the hand of their enemies. _They took the young men to grind_ To grind at the mill was the common employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5. _The children fell under t...
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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 un...
Either our rejoicing at our solemn festivals, and dancings there, which were usual, as appeareth from many scriptures; or all our joy and dancings, as well at other times as in our solemn festivals....
Lamentations 5:15 joy H4885 heart H3820 ceased H7673 (H8804) dance H4234 turned H2015 (H8738) mourning H60 our dance - Psalms 30:11; Amos 6:4-7, Amos 8:10; James 4:9-10...
The joy of our heart is ceased, Our dance is turned into mourning. No longer were the inhabitants of Judah joyful at heart. Life under an oppressive regime had removed all the joy out of life. And i...
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...
_The elders have ceased from the gate._ THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OVERTHROWN 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (A) It bringeth...
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. Lamentations 5:1), a descript...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:14. Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social pastimes. THE ELDERS CEASED FROM [FREQUENTING]...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2 OUR INHERITANCE. The land had been "given" to Abraham (Genesis 13:1; Genesis 17:8), and was consequen...
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...
Amos 6:4; Amos 8:10; James 4:10; James 4:9; Psalms 30:11...