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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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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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_THE JOY OF OUR HEART IS CEASED; OUR DANCE IS TURNED INTO MOURNING._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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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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שָׁבַת֙ מְשֹׂ֣ושׂ לִבֵּ֔נוּ
נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְ אֵ֖בֶל...
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SIN AND SHAME
Lamentations 5:11
THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the
poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon
His people. The preceding p...
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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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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be
satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
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He pursues the same subject, but he seems more clearly to explain what
he had briefly stated in the preceding verse, when he says that _all
joy of the heart had ceased, and that all the dances were tu...
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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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THE JOY OF OUR HEART IS CEASED,.... ward joy was gone, as well as the
external signs of it: it "sabbatized" y, as it may be rendered;
alluding perhaps to the cordial joy expressed formerly on their
sa...
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Ver. 15. _The joy of our heart is ceased._] Heb., Keepeth Sabbath,
_i.e., _ is vanished, and that because we made not God's Sabbath...
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_Princes are hanged up by their hand_ By the hand of their enemies.
_They took the young men to grind_ To grind at the mill was the common
employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5. _The children fell under t...
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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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Either our rejoicing at our solemn festivals, and dancings there,
which were usual, as appeareth from many scriptures; or all our joy
and dancings, as well at other times as in our solemn festivals....
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Lamentations 5:15 joy H4885 heart H3820 ceased H7673 (H8804) dance
H4234 turned H2015 (H8738) mourning H60
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The joy of our heart is ceased,
Our dance is turned into mourning.
No longer were the inhabitants of Judah joyful at heart. Life under an
oppressive regime had removed all the joy out of life. And i...
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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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_The elders have ceased from the gate._
THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OVERTHROWN
1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is
overthrown from among them.
(1) Reasons.
(A) It bringeth...
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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 5:14 OLD MEN. Civic leaders. HAVE
LEFT THE CITY GATE. They no longer sat where decisions were made and
business was conducted....
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 5:14. Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of
life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social
pastimes. THE ELDERS CEASED FROM [FREQUENTING] T...
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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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Amos 6:4; Amos 8:10; James 4:10; James 4:9; Psalms 30:11...