The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish church, as a woman in misery sitting by the way-side, and calling to passengers that came by to have compassion on her, suggesting to them that her affliction was no ordinary affliction, nor the effect of a common and ordinary providence, but the effect of the Lord's fierce anger, a most severe punishment.
Verse 12. Is it _NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE THAT PASS BY?_] The desolations and distress brought upon this city and its inhabitants had scarcely any parallel. Excessive abuse of God's accumulated mercies...
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lamentations 1:13 IT PREVAILETH - Or, hath subdued. HE HATH TURNED ME BACK - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to es...
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...
BEHOLD. look attentively. Not the same word as in verses: Lamentations 1:9; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 1:20. BE. exists. Hebrew. _yesh._ See...
_Is it nothing to you_ This rendering is precarious. Löhr considers the original commencement of the _v_. to be irrevocably lost. The lit. rendering of MT. is "not to you, etc." So the Syr., while the...
See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....
IS IT NOTHING TO YOU— _Come unto me all ye that pass by._ Houbigant. Michaelis would render it, _Not unto you that pass by,_ [namely, do I call]. The preceding verse ended thus, _See, O Lord, and cons...
II. A LAMENT BY THE CITY Lamentations 1:12-22 In Lamentations 1:12-22 the lonely, tearful widow takes up her lament. She appeals to passers-by to take note of the incomparable agony of Zion ...
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. IS I...
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...
Zion yearns for sympathy....
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...
IS IT NOTHING TO YOU... — Literally, _Not to you, ye passers by,_ which the Authorised version takes as a question. The LXX. and Vulg., however, seem to have taken the adverb as an interjection: “_O a...
לֹ֣וא אֲלֵיכֶם֮ כָּל ־עֹ֣בְרֵי דֶרֶךְ֒ הַבִּ֣יטוּ...
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...
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...
[Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any (n) sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce ange...
_O. Hebrew of the Masorets, "It is." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Is it nothing to you, all?" &c. (Haydock) --- But the Vulgate is much clearer, and approved by many Protestants, lu being often used as...
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her sk...
_THE UNHEEDED SORROWS OF JESUS_ ‘Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?’ Lamentations 1:12 Where is the difference between the Church and the world? The world looks on; the Church participates...
_SORROW UNPARALLELED_ ‘See if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.’ Lamentations 1:12 I. THE FULL INSTRUCTION OF THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH CAN BE UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY A CONSIDERATION OF THE PR...
The beginning of the verse is variously explained. Some read it interrogatively, “Is it nothing to you who pass by the way?” Others more simply, “I see that I am not cared for by you; to you my sorrow...
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...
[IS IT] NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE THAT PASS BY?.... O ye strangers and travellers that pass by, and see my distress, does it not at all concern you? does it not in the least affect you? can you look upon...
__ Lamentations 1:12 _[Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day...
_Is it nothing to you?_ &c. The Vulgate reads this clause without an interrogation, thus: _O vos omnes qui transitis per viam attendite, videte_, &c. _O all ye, who pass by the way, observe, see_, &c....
THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Will none of those who are witnesses of her misery and shame take the proper notice of her calamity? BEHOLD AND SEE IF THERE BE ANY SORROW LIKE UNTO MY SORRO...
IS IT NOTHING TO YOU: Or, is it nothing PASS BY? _HEB._PASS BY THE WAY...
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...
Lamentations 1:12 pass H5674 (H8802) by H1870 Behold H5027 (H8685) see H7200 (H8798) is H3426 sorrow...
JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BEHOLD HER PITIABLE STATE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). Lamentations 1:12 (Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see, If there be any sorrow like to...
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...
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...
_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...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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...
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...
Daniel 9:12; Lamentations 2:13; Lamentations 4:6; Luke 21:22; Lu
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...
Is it nothing — The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish church....