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Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before Thee, for a just punishment, and do unto them as Thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions, according to the same righteous judgment; for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. This is not a vindictive prayer, but a plea for justice, which repentant believers of all times may well send up to the throne of God. The very punishment of God upon rebellious children is intended to change into a blessed experience of good.

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See also Lamentations 1:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Lamentations 1:22. _LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE_] That is, Thou wilt call their crimes also into remembrance; and thou wilt do unto them by siege, sword, famine, and captivity, wha...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LET ALL, &C. This prayer is in accordance with that Dispensation. Not with this. See App-63. WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. AS =. according as. TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellions. Hebrew. _pasha'._ A...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For my sighs are many_ The connexion is, I have had my punishment. Do thou then proceed to inflict upon them their share. For the sentiment, as contrasted with N.T. teaching, cp. Jeremiah 18:20 ff....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Appeal to God Lamentations 1:20-22 TRANSLATION (20) Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is turned within me because I have grievously rebelled. In the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE] a not infrequent prayer of OT. saints for righteous retribution upon the enemy: cp. Psalms 69, 109, 137 Jeremiah 18:20 not altogether unjustifiable, for the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS... — The prayer for a righteous retribution, the first natural prayer of the outraged, reminds us of Psalms 69, 109, 137, yet more strongly of the language of the prophet hims...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תָּבֹ֨א כָל ־רָעָתָ֤ם לְ פָנֶ֨יךָ֙ וְ עֹולֵ֣ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ZION'S APPEAL Lamentations 1:12 IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle of the s...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (t) Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do to them, as thou hast done to me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint. (t) Of desiring vengeance against t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Let. He prays not for their ruin, but predicts it; and wishes rather that they would be converted. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my tra...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here, no doubt, the faithful regarded as a part of their comfort the judgment which God would at length execute on the ungodly; and there is no doubt but that this kind of imprecation had been suggest...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE,.... The Targum adds, "in the day of the great judgment;'' but it seems to refer to present time, at least to the time fixed by the Lord for their ruin; and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint. Ver. 22. _Let their wickedness come...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They have heard that I sigh_ The nations contiguous to me, Egypt and others, that before pretended to be my friends and allies, have been no strangers to my bitter afflictions, which have forced sigh...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This verse is another prophetical curse or imprecation, several of which we meet with in holy writ, PSALMS 109:6 137:8 JEREMIAH 11:20, JEREMIAH 18:23, and in many other texts; which would incline us t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Lamentations 1:22 wickedness H7451 come H935 (H8799) before H6440 do H5953 (H8778) done H5953 (H8782) trans

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    RECOGNISING THE DEPTHS OF HER OWN SIN JERUSALEM CALLS ON YHWH TO DO THE SAME TO HER ENEMIES WHO ARE GLOATING OVER HER AS HE HAS DONE TO HER, FOR THEY ARE EQUALLY SINFUL. AND SHE CALLS ON HIM TO AVENGE...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which Jerusalem...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I called for my lovers, but they deceived me._ DECEITFUL HELPERS 1. It is an increase of sorrow to be disappointed of their help by whom we looked to be delivered out of our troubles. 2. God often...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_ ZION’S APPEAL 1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy. Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be passi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 3:13; Isaiah 13:7; Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 18:23;...

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