George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Lamentations 1:5
Lords. Literally, "at the head," (Haydock) which Moses had threatened, Deuteronomy xxvi. 1, 43. (Calmet) --- This would be most cutting. (Worthington)
Lords. Literally, "at the head," (Haydock) which Moses had threatened, Deuteronomy xxvi. 1, 43. (Calmet) --- This would be most cutting. (Worthington)
Verse Lamentations 1:5. _HER ADVERSARIES ARE THE CHIEF_] They have now _supreme_ _dominion_ over the whole land....
ARE THE CHIEF ... PROSPER - Or, “are become the head”... are at rest. Judaea is so entirely crushed that her enemies did not need to take precautions against resistance on her part. CHILDREN - i. e....
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...
ARE THE CHIEFS ARE THE HEAD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:13; Deuteronomy 28:44), the same word. App-92. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. transgressions. rebellions. Hebrew. _pasha'_. A...
_are become the head_ There may be a reference to Deuteronomy 28:13; Deuteronomy 28:44. _prosper_ lit. ARE AT PEACE. Cp. Jeremiah 12:1 ("are … at ease"). _for the multitude, etc_.] The a
HER ADVERSARIES ARE THE CHIEF— Literally, _are at,_ or _for the head._ They rule over, or are superior to her. See Isaiah 9:15.Deuteronomy 28:13....
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...
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. HER ADVERSARIES ARE...
1:5 adversaries (b-2) adversary. (b-29) Or 'oppressor,' _ Tzar_ ; so vers. 7,10,17. see Note o, Psalms 8:2 , and Psalms 78:61 . head, (c-6) See Deuteronomy 28:44 ....
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...
ARE THE CHIEF] RV 'are become the head': i.e. Judah has lost her leadership. BEFORE THE ENEMY] driven as slaves....
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...
• If we allow our *sins to rule us, God is able to allow other enemies to rule us also. • Where there are no children, there is no future. • The *Lord is a judge who always does the right thing. See...
HER ADVERSARIES ARE THE CHIEF. — Literally, _have become the head_ (Deuteronomy 28:13). HER ENEMIES PROSPER. — Better, _are at ease,_ secure from every resistance on her part. “Before the enemy,” dri...
הָי֨וּ צָרֶ֤יהָ לְ רֹאשׁ֙ אֹיְבֶ֣יהָ שָׁל֔וּ...
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...
Her adversaries (g) are the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. (g) That is, hav...
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...
He first says that her enemies _had become the head_; and by this expression he doubtless means power; and this way of speaking he borrowed from Moses, for these are his words, “Thou shalt be the hea...
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...
HER ADVERSARIES ARE THE CHIEF,.... Or, "for the head" n; or are the head, as was threatened, Deuteronomy 28:44; and now fulfilled; the Chaldeans having got the dominion over the Jews, and obliged them...
_Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy._ Ver. 5. _Her adve...
_The ways of Zion do mourn_ The highways leading to Zion, which used to be thronged with people going to the solemn feasts before the Lord, now, as it were, mourned on account of no persons travelling...
Her adversaries are the chief, that is, the head, the rulers of Judah, HER ENEMIES PROSPER, their good fortune intensifying the darkness of her own calamity; FOR THE LORD HATH AFFLICTED HER FOR THE MU...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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...
God hath fulfilled his threatening, DEUTERONOMY 28:43; the enemy is got ABOVE US, and WE ARE BROUGHT VERY LOW, for the multitude of our sins, directly contrary to his promise in case of obedience, LAM...
Lamentations 1:5 adversaries H6862 master H7218 enemies H341 (H8802) prosper H7951 (H8804) LORD H3068 afflicted H3
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...
_Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper._ THE ADVERSARIES OF THE GOOD 1. The cause apparent of all the miseries of God’s people is the prospering and prevailing of their enemies. 2. It o...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:5 HER ENEMIES PROSPER. Babylon has conquered Jerusalem (Jeremiah 52:1) because of her transgressions
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ה) Lamentations 1:5. HER ADVERSARIES ARE BECOME THE HEAD, AS WAS threatened if unfaithful to the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:44); HER ENEMIES PROSPER, are in peace, and rest secure, knowi...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:14; Daniel 9:7; Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:43;...
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...