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Verse Lamentations 1:21. _THEY HAVE HEARD THAT I SIGH_] My affliction
is public enough; but no one comes to comfort me.
_THEY ARE GLAD THAT THOU HAST DONE_ it] On the contrary, they exult in
my miser...
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THEY HAVE HEARD ... - Or, “They heard that I sigh,” that I have
“no comforter.”
THOU WILT BRING THE DAY ... - literally, thou hast brought “the day
thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto m...
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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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THE DAY: i.e. the day of vengeance of Jeremiah 25:17....
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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The second and third lines are metrically irregular, as failing to
fulfil the conditions of the "limping rhythm" of the Ḳinah. (See
Intr. p. 321 f.) Löhr accordingly transposes "They are glad … done
i...
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THERE IS NONE TO COMFORT ME— Grief is timorous and suspicious,
fertile in inventing torments for itself, scarcely brooking the least
neglect, but entirely impatient of the least mockery or contempt. T...
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C. The Appeal to God Lamentations 1:20-22
TRANSLATION
(20) Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my inward parts are
troubled, my heart is turned within me because I have grievously
rebelled. In the...
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They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine
enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done
it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shal...
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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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THE DAY] i.e. the day of vengeance on Zion, long before announced
(Jeremiah 25:17)....
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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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THEY ARE GLAD THAT THOU HAST DONE IT... — Historically the words
refer to the conduct of nations like the Edomites, as described in
Psalms 137:7.
THOU WILT BRING THE DAY THAT THOU HAST CALLED. — Bette...
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שָׁמְע֞וּ כִּ֧י נֶאֱנָחָ֣ה אָ֗נִי
אֵ֤ין מְנַחֵם֙...
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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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_Done it. They conclude that I am cast off for ever. But when I shall
be comforted, their turn will come; (Calmet) or rather they will feel
the scourge soon after me. --- Consolation. Hebrew, "which t...
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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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The verb שמעו, _shemou_, is put down twice, but at the beginning
without a nominative case: hence the sentence is defective, until in
the second clause the word איבי _aibi_, is expressed. Jeremiah
evi...
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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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THEY HAVE HEARD THAT I SIGH: [THERE IS] NONE TO COMFORT ME,.... That
is, the nations, as the Targum; the neighbouring ones, those that were
her confederates and allies; the same with her lovers, as be...
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They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine
enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done
[it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they...
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_They have heard that I sigh_ The nations contiguous to me, Egypt and
others, that before pretended to be my friends and allies, have been
no strangers to my bitter afflictions, which have forced sigh...
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They have heard that I sigh, the former friends and allies being fully
aware of her groaning; THERE IS NONE TO COMFORT ME, for they all
ignore her trouble. ALL MINE ENEMIES HAVE HEARD OF MY TROUBLE; T...
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THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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CALLED:
Or, proclaimed...
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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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The nations contiguous to me, Egypt, &c., those that before courted
me, as pretended friends, have been no strangers to my bitter
afflictions, that have brought forth sighs from me; but there is none...
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Lamentations 1:21 heard H8085 (H8804) sigh H584 (H8737) comforts H5162
(H8764) enemies H341 (H8802) heard...
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RECOGNISING THE DEPTHS OF HER OWN SIN JERUSALEM CALLS ON YHWH TO DO
THE SAME TO HER ENEMIES WHO ARE GLOATING OVER HER AS HE HAS DONE TO
HER, FOR THEY ARE EQUALLY SINFUL. AND SHE CALLS ON HIM TO AVENGE...
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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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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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_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...
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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 1:21 NO ONE TO COMFORT ME. See vv.
Lamentations 1:9,...
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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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Amos 1:1; Deuteronomy 32:41; Ezekiel 25:15; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel