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Lamentations 1 - Introduction

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. The second, Lamentations 1:12, contains a bitter complaint from the city herself, or rather from the city personified by a sufferer.

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See also Lamentations 1 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This poem Lamentations 1 divides itself into two equal parts; Lamentations 1:1 describe the misery which has befallen the Jews; in Lamentations 1:12, Jerusalem laments over her sufferings.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Lamentations 1:1-22. The miseries of Jerusalem The general subject running through this first chapter may be thus subdivided. Lamentations 1:1 lament the sufferings which Jerusalem is now undergoing,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _THE MISERABLE ESTATE OF JERUSALEM BY REASON OF HER SIN: SHE COMPLAINETH OF HER GRIEF, AND CONFESSETH GOD'S JUDGMENT TO BE RIGHTEOUS._ _Before Christ 588._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REVIEW OF CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 1. What are the two major divisions of the first poem? 2. What is the significance of the word how which begins chapter 1, 2 and 4? 3. How does memory play a part in...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 1 This chapter contains a complaint of the miseries of the city of Jerusalem, and the nation of the Jews; first by the Prophet Jeremiah, then by the Jewish people; and is...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 1. A HEART-CRY OVER WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM. Chapter 1 is a heart cry over what has happened to Jerusalem. It divides up into two equal sections. The first eleven verses depict the hear...

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