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Verse Lamentations 5:2. _OUR INHERITANCE IS TURNED TO STRANGERS_] The
greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive;
and even those who were left under _Gedaliah_ were not _free_,...
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TURNED - “transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan
Leviticus 20:24.
ALIENS - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their
conquest of the country....
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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...
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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...
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INHERITANCE: i.e. Canaan....
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_Our inheritance_ our land, forfeited to the conquerors....
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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...
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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...
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OUR INHERITANCE] Canaan (Leviticus 20:24)....
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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....
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TURNED. — Used here as in the sense of _transferred._
HOUSES. — In Jer. Iii. 13, the Chaldæans are said to have burnt the
houses of Jerusalem, and those of the great men elsewhere; here,
therefore, t...
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נַחֲלָתֵ֨נוּ֙ נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣ה לְ זָרִ֔ים
בָּתֵּ֖ינוּ לְ...
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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...
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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...
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_Aliens. The Idumeans seized and kept possession of the southern
parts._...
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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 and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We
ha...
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A catalogue of many calamities is now given by the Prophet, and as I
have reminded you, for this end, that he may obtain God’s favor for
himself and for the whole people. It was by no means a reasonab...
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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...
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OUR INHERITANCE IS TURNED TO STRANGERS,.... The land of Canaan in
general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their
inheritance; and their field, and vineyards in particular, which came
to...
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Ver. 2. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers._] So the Jews called
all other nations, as the Greeks, barbarians. From hence to Lam 5:1...
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_Consider, and behold our reproach_ Which we suffer from the heathen
nations. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers_ Namely, to the
Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. _We are orpha...
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, since
the invading Chaldeans had taken possession of the entire land....
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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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...
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What our fathers inherited as given them by thee, and we as left to us
by them, is come into the hands of the Chaldeans....
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Lamentations 5:2 inheritance H5159 over H2015 (H8738) aliens H2114
(H8801) houses H1004 foreigners H5237...
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Our inheritance is handed over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.
They had had to stand by and watch while their land had been handed
over to foreigners, and aliens had taken possession of their hou...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:2 OUR INHERITANCE. The Promised
Land, which was the physical evidence of Israel’s relationship with
God (Deuteronomy 4:21,...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches.
OUR INHERITANCE, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which
his descendants had held possession for ge...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 5:1
INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:30; Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 7:24; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 5:17