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Verse Lamentations 1:2. _AMONG ALL HER LOVERS_] Her allies; her
_friends_, instead of helping her, have helped her enemies. Several
who sought her friendship when she was in prosperity, in the time of...
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LOVERS ... FRIENDS - i. e. the states in alliance with Judaea, and all
human helpers....
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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...
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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...
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WEEPETH SORE. Note Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). The Hebrew.
a weeping she weepeth. Thus well rendered. See note on Genesis 26:28.
and note the Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6).
LOVERS...
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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...
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_in the night_ The time of natural silence and darkness is made a part
of the picture in order to heighten the effect. The absence of the
distractions of the day intensifies the sense of bereavement....
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AMONG ALL HER LOVERS, &C.— "All her allies, whose friendship she
courted by sinful compliances, have forsaken her in the _night_ of her
afflictions, and even joined with her enemies in insulting over...
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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...
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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among
all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have
dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. SHE...
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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...
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LOVERS] synonymous with FRIENDS, viz. her allies Edom and Egypt
(Lamentations 4:22)....
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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...
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• Many people used to come to *Jerusalem. They do not come any more.
God wants to make the people sorry. And he wants to make them turn
back to himself. God is able to take our friends away from us if...
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SHE WEEPETH SORE IN THE NIGHT. — The intensity of the sorrow is
emphasised by the fact that the tears do not cease even in the time
which commonly brings rest and repose to mourners. The “lovers”
and...
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בָּכֹ֨ו תִבְכֶּ֜ה בַּ † לַּ֗יְלָה וְ
דִמְעָתָהּ֙...
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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...
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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...
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She weepeth bitterly in the (c) night, and her tears [are] on her
cheeks: among all her (d) lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all
her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become he...
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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! She weepeth...
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Jeremiah still pursues the same subject, for he could not have spoken
briefly and in a few words of things so bitter and mournful; and he
seems to have felt deeply the ruin of his own country. And whe...
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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...
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SHE WEEPETH SORE IN THE NIGHT,.... Or, "weeping weeps" i; two
weepings, one for the first, the other for the second temples k; and
while others are taking their sleep and rest; a season fit for
mourne...
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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks:
among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends
have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies....
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_She weepeth sore in the night_ In the Hebrew, according to the idiom
of that language, it is, _Weeping she weepeth_, which our old English
version renders, _She weepeth continually._ The expression,...
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She weepeth sore in the night, the slumber being driven away from her
eyelids by the greatness of her sorrow, AND HER TEARS ARE ON HER
CHEEKS, since they flow without stopping and have no chance to dr...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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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...
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All her hours are hours of sadness, she doth not only mourn in the day
time, but in the night also, when she should rest; her cheeks are like
the grass in the morning, hanging full of drops, as if her...
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Lamentations 1:2 weeps H1058 (H8799) bitterly H1058 (H8800) night
H3915 tears H1832 cheeks H3895 lovers H157 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_She weepeth sore in the night._
LONELY SORROW
1. According to the measure of God’s correcting hand upon us, must
our grief be.
(1) Because God is sure to be (at the least) so angry as His rods are...
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LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins
with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:2 Jerusalem WEEPS BITTERLY IN
THE NIGHT because of her losses (v. Lamentations 1:1). lovers... fri
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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...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 1:1
A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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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...
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Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:22; Hosea 2:7; Isaiah 51:18; Isaiah 51:19;
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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...