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Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, since the invading Chaldeans had taken possession of the entire land.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, since the invading Chaldeans had taken possession of the entire land.
Verse Lamentations 5:2. _OUR INHERITANCE IS TURNED TO STRANGERS_] The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were left under _Gedaliah_ were not _free_,...
TURNED - “transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan Leviticus 20:24. ALIENS - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conquest of the country....
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...
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...
INHERITANCE: i.e. Canaan....
_Our inheritance_ our land, forfeited to the conquerors....
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...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. OUR INHERITANCE - which is at the same time "thine inheritance" (). The land given of old to us by thy gift....
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...
OUR INHERITANCE] Canaan (Leviticus 20:24)....
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....
TURNED. — Used here as in the sense of _transferred._ HOUSES. — In Jer. Iii. 13, the Chaldæans are said to have burnt the houses of Jerusalem, and those of the great men elsewhere; here, therefore, t...
נַחֲלָתֵ֨נוּ֙ נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣ה לְ זָרִ֔ים בָּתֵּ֖ינוּ לְ...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures that have...
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...
_Aliens. The Idumeans seized and kept possession of the southern parts._...
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 and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We ha...
A catalogue of many calamities is now given by the Prophet, and as I have reminded you, for this end, that he may obtain God’s favor for himself and for the whole people. It was by no means a reasonab...
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...
OUR INHERITANCE IS TURNED TO STRANGERS,.... The land of Canaan in general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their inheritance; and their field, and vineyards in particular, which came to...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Ver. 2. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers._] So the Jews called all other nations, as the Greeks, barbarians. From hence to Lam 5:1...
_Consider, and behold our reproach_ Which we suffer from the heathen nations. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers_ Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. _We are orpha...
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...
What our fathers inherited as given them by thee, and we as left to us by them, is come into the hands of the Chaldeans....
Lamentations 5:2 inheritance H5159 over H2015 (H8738) aliens H2114 (H8801) houses H1004 foreigners H5237...
Our inheritance is handed over to strangers, Our houses to aliens. They had had to stand by and watch while their land had been handed over to foreigners, and aliens had taken possession of their hou...
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...
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...
_Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us._ AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSION The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his God...
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....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:2 OUR INHERITANCE. The Promised Land, which was the physical evidence of Israel’s relationship with God (Deuteronomy 4:21,...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. OUR INHERITANCE, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which his descendants had held possession for ge...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:30; Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 7:24; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 5:17