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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Lamentations 1:19

I desired help of my allies and confederates who courted my friendship and alliance in any prosperity, but they failed mine expectation, none of them either would or could succour me. My misery was such through the famine, that not only my common people, but those of the best rank in the city, magistrates and priests, fainted as they went along the street seeking bread to satisfy their hunger.

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See also Lamentations 1:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 19. _I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS_] My allies; the _Egyptians_ and others....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I CALLED FOR ... - Rather, to “my lovers.” WHILE THEY SOUGHT THEIR MEAT - literally, “for they sought food for themselves to revive their souls.” Complete the sense by adding, “and found none.”...

  • 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

    GAVE UP THE GHOST. expired, or breathed their last....

  • 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

    _my lovers_ See on Lamentations 1:2. _meat to refresh their souls_ See on Lamentations 1:11. The LXX add (but unnecessarily, and with injury to the metre), _and found it not_....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS— That is, "My allies, the Egyptians, and others, who had promised me assistance, but in the day of necessity cast me off." See on Lamentations 1:2. _WHILE THEY SOUGHT THEIR MEAT...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Appeal to Neighboring Nations Lamentations 1:17-19 TRANSLATION (17) Zion spreads forth her hands, but there is none to comfort her. The LORD has given commandment concerning Jacob that his nei...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS - (; , "All thy lov...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:19 soul. (a-28) Or 'life.'...

  • 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

    LOVERS] see on Lamentations 1:2. MY PRIESTS AND MINE ELDERS] Even the most honoured chiefs of the city died of starvation. 20-22. In distress Zion appeals to Jehovah for redress....

  • 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

    I CALLED FOR. — Better, _to._ The “lovers,” as in Lamentations 1:2, are the former allies of Judah. MY PRIESTS AND MINE ELDERS. — The pressure of the famine of the besieged city is emphasised by the f...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קָרָ֤אתִי לַֽ † מְאַהֲבַי֙ הֵ֣מָּה רִמּ֔וּנִי כֹּהֲנַ֥י...

  • 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

    I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they (s) sought their food to relieve their souls. (s) That is, they died for hunger....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Me. Egypt attempted to relieve Juda, to no purpose, ver. 2. (Calmet) --- It could not, or at least did not, prove of any service to the Jews, chap. ii. 18. (Worthington)_...

  • 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 the people of God complain in the person of a woman, as we have before seen, that in their calamity they were left destitute of every comfort. And it is a circumstance which increases grief, when...

  • 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

    I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS, [BUT] THEY DECEIVED ME,.... Either her idols, with whom she had committed spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry; but these could not answer her expectations, and help her: or t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. Ver. 19. _I called for my lovers, but th...

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

    _The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled_, &c. He does me no wrong in dealing thus with me, nor can I charge him with any injustice. Observe, reader, whatever the troubles are which God is pleased...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I called for my lovers, the nations which had professed an interest of true affection, BUT THEY DECEIVED ME; MY PRIESTS AND MINE ELDERS GAVE UP THE GHOST IN THE CITY, both the spiritual and the tempor...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Lamentations 1:19 called H7121 (H8804) lovers H157 (H8764) deceived H7411 (H8765) priests H3548 elders H2205

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 23:11; Jeremiah 27:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Deceived — They did not answer my expectation....

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