THE MISERIES OF JERUSALEM
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—This elegy may be divided into two chief parts.
The first, Lamentations 1:1, exhibits the mournful condition of an
unnamed city, overtaken by various calamities, with a break, at
Lamentations 1:9; Lamentations 1:11, by an ejaculatory appeal to
Jehovah. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 1:1 present the city as she is in sharp contrast with
what she was, and as an object of deep distress, on account of her
sins and their penalties. The verses have a pictorial illustration in
the medal struck by the Roman Emperor Titus in commemoration of the
capture... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ג) Lamentations 1:3. JUDAH, the population of the whole territory,
with that of Jerusalem, IS TAKEN INTO EXILE, a subjugated,
impoverished remnant being left. FROM AFFLICTION, the same expression
occurs in Exodus 3:17 and Psalms 108:4, AND FROM MUCH SERVITUDE, NOT,
as might seem... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ד) Lamentations 1:4 introduces another view personifying the
religious condition: not the banished people, not the fallen city, but
the dwelling-place of the Holy One of Israel is forsaken and
overthrown. THE WAYS OF ZION, not the streets in Jerusalem leading up
to the Temple, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
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, knowing that all resistance is
over, so completely has she been crushed. This was brought about not
by t... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ח) Lamentations 1:8. JERUSALEM HAS SINNED A SIN, has broken the law
of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty;
THEREFORE SHE IS BECOME AS AN UNCLEAN ONE; not as one who has been
_removed_ (Authorised Version) as a captive from her native place, but
as one se... [ Continue Reading ]
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 persistent sin in sight of her
righteous Lord, who will deal out justice to all transgressors,
17–22.
(ל) La... [ Continue Reading ]
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 persistent sin in sight of her
righteous Lord, who will deal out justice to all transgressors,
17–22.
(צ) L... [ Continue Reading ]