Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Lamentations 1:5

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 multitude of her transgressions, the punishment which she was suffering being fully deserved; her children are gone into captivity before the enemy, literally, "her infants in absence of strength before the pursuer. "

Continues after advertising

See also Lamentations 1:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Lamentations 1:5. _HER ADVERSARIES ARE THE CHIEF_] They have now _supreme_ _dominion_ over the whole land....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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....

  • 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

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    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 ....

  • 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

    ARE THE CHIEF] RV 'are become the head': i.e. Judah has lost her leadership. BEFORE THE ENEMY] driven as slaves....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָי֨וּ צָרֶ֤יהָ לְ רֹאשׁ֙ אֹיְבֶ֣יהָ שָׁל֔וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lords. Literally, "at the head," (Haydock) which Moses had threatened, Deuteronomy xxvi. 1, 43. (Calmet) --- This would be most cutting. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

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

    _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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Lamentations 1:5 adversaries H6862 master H7218 enemies H341 (H8802) prosper H7951 (H8804) LORD H3068 afflicted H3

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:5 HER ENEMIES PROSPER. Babylon has conquered Jerusalem (Jeremiah 52:1) because of her transgressions

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    2 Chronicles 36:14; Daniel 9:7; Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:43;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

Continues after advertising