The inhabitants of Jerusalem, now that they are in affliction and misery, have time to remember their former mercies, and with how many desirable things God had once blessed them, and compare her former state before she fell into the enemies hands, with her present state now she is in their power. Now it is an affliction to them to hear her enemies mock at her sabbaths, which while they enjoyed they abused.
Verse 7. _DID MOCK AT HER SABBATHS._] משבתה _mishbatteha_. Some contend that _Sabbaths_ are not intended here. The _Septuagint_ has κατοικεσια αυτης, "her habitation;" the _Chaldee_, על טובהא al _tub...
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction, And of her homelessness, All her pleasant things which have been from the days of old: Now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, And...
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...
PLEASANT THINGS. Hebrew. things of desire. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the things she used to enjoy. SABBATHS: or, sabbath-keepings; which she had herself profaned. See Jeremi...
The _v_. should, like the rest, be tripartite, whereas as it stands it has four lines. Löhr and others (probably rightly) consider "All her … old" as a gloss. We should then omit the "in" of the first...
JERUSALEM REMEMBERED, &C.— _Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction, and of her exile, all the pleasant things which she had in the days of old. Her people fall into the hand of the enemy, a...
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...
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:...
1:7 wanderings, (d-10) Or 'miseries.' see ch. 3.19; Isaiah 58:7 . into (e-15) Or 'by.' ruin. (f-49) Or 'cessation' or 'days of rest,' and see Leviticus 26:43 ....
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...
REMEMBERED] RV 'remembereth.' SABBATHS] RV 'desolations,' in the sense probably of ceasings: cp. the enforced sabbaths of Leviticus 26:34; Leviticus 26:35. The Heb. word employed here is not found el...
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...
JERUSALEM REMEMBERED. — Better, _remembereth._ The present is contrasted with the past. Still. the “sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.” THAT SHE HAD IN THE DAYS OF OLD. — Better,...
זָֽכְרָ֣ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם יְמֵ֤י עָנְיָהּ֙ וּ מְרוּדֶ֔יהָ...
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...
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...
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people (i) fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her...
_Of all. She compares her past happiness with her present chastisement. --- Sabbaths, or days of rest. The pagans derided them as so much lost time. Ignava et partem vitæ non attigit ullam. (Juvenal v...
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...
He confirms the former verse when he says, that _Jerusalem remembered her desirable things _when she was afflicted by God’s hand, and reduced to extreme want. And he in-intimates by these words, that...
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...
JERUSALEM REMEMBERED IN THE DAYS OF HER AFFLICTION AND OF HER MISERIES,.... When carried captive, and in exile in a foreign land; when surrounded with distresses and calamities of various kinds; which...
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:...
_Jerusalem remembered in her affliction and misery._ The word מרודים, here rendered _misery_, frequently signifies _banishment_ and _captivity._ The LXX. render it απωσμων, _rejections_, or _expulsion...
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, the members of the Jewish Church recalling with eager remembrance the gl...
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
PLEASANT: Or, desireable...
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...
Lamentations 1:7 days H3117 affliction H6040 roaming H4788 Jerusalem H3389 remembers H2142 (H8804) things H4262 days...
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...
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...
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...
_Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction, and of her miseries, all her pleasant things._ THE ACTION OF THE MEMORY IN PAIN I. It generally refers to the “pleasant things” of the past. This...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:7 In exile the people recall the days of David, Solomon, and Josiah (ALL THE PRECIOUS THINGS) in DAYS OF OLD. These precious things have been replaced with worthles...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 4:7; Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 8:7;...
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...