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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...
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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...
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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...
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Notice the accumulation of figures under which the destruction of the
city is represented, fiery rain, toils of a net, a blocking of the
way, a yoke laid on the neck, a sacrificial banquet, the treadi...
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Zion likens herself to one whose inmost parts are being consumed, as
with flame. Cp. Jeremiah 20:9; Job 30:30; Psalms 102:3.
_it prevaileth against it_ SUBDUETH, or, in the sense of the cognate
root i...
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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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 ...
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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.
FROM ABOVE HATH...
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1:13 prevaileth (b-13) Or 'he causeth it to prevail.'...
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FROM ABOVE] RV 'From on high.'...
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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...
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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...
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FROM ABOVE... — The words are probably figurative. The judgments
that had fallen on Jerusalem were as a fire from heaven, piercing even
to “the joints and marrow,” the innermost recesses of life.
HE H...
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מִ מָּרֹ֛ום שָֽׁלַח ־אֵ֥שׁ בְּ
עַצְמֹתַ֖י וַ
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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...
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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...
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From above hath (o) 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.
(o) This de...
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_Bones: fortresses. (Theodoret) --- I am like one in a burning fever,
Ezechiel xxiv. 4. (Calmet) --- Chastised. Literally, "instructed."
This is the good effect of affliction. (Haydock)_...
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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...
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_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...
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The Prophet proceeds with the same subject, that God’s vengeance had
raged most dreadfully agsinst Jerusalem. But employing a metaphor she
says, that _fire _had been sent to her _bones_. They who inte...
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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...
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FROM ABOVE HATH HE SENT FIRE INTO MY BONES,.... Which the Targum
interprets of her fortified cities, towns, or castles; as Jerusalem,
more especially the temple, and the palaces of the king and nobles...
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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.
Ver. 13. _From...
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_From above hath he sent fire into my bones_ Calamities as consuming
and as afflictive as fire in the bones. _He hath spread a net for my
feet_ Hath brought me into a most miserable condition, in whic...
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From above hath He sent fire into my bones, which are here thought of
as organs of the body that are first to feel a racking pain, AND IT
PREVAILETH AGAINST THEM, so that the very vital powers are aff...
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THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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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...
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By FIRE he means a judgment as consuming and as afflictive as fire in
the bones, which had consumed the strength of the Jews. HE HATH SPREAD
A NET FOR MY FEET; that is, God had brought them into a con...
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Lamentations 1:13 above H4791 sent H7971 (H8804) fire H784 bones H6106
overpowered H7287 (H8799) spread H6566
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_From above hath He sent fire into my bones._
PENETRATING SORROWS
1. This often mention of God’s hand teacheth this doctrine: When God
punisheth us by the hands of the wicked, we are hardly brought...
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_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...
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LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins
with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:13 FROM ON HIGH HE SENT FIRE.
Fire is a common way of describing judgment (Amos 1:3). The phrase
reminds readers of Sodom and Gomorrah (s
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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...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 1:1
A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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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...
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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...
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Fire — A judgment as consuming, and afflictive as fire....