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Darby's translation notes (1890)

Lamentations 2 - Introduction

1:1 (a-0) In chs. 1 and 2 the initial letter of each verse, consisting of three parts or lines, follows the alphabetical order.

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See also Lamentations 2 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This poem Lamentations 2 also divides itself like Lamentations 1 into two nearly equal portions; in Lamentations 2:1, the prophet describes the punishment which has fallen upon Zion;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Lamentations 2:1-22. God's judgements upon the city. Lamentation. Supplication This ch., together with ch. 4, stands on a higher level of poetic merit than ch. 1, and the writer is almost certainly s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _JEREMIAH LAMENTETH THE MISERY OF JERUSALEM: HE COMPLAINETH THEREOF TO GOD._ _Before Christ 588._ THE prophet gives a melancholy detail of the dire effects of the divine anger in the subversion of b...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REVIEW OF CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 1. Does this chapter reflect a bitterness toward God be cause He has allowed and permitted the destruction of Zion? 2. In what sense was God responsible for the cala...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 2 This chapter contains another alphabet, in which the Prophet Jeremiah, or those he represents, lament the sad condition of Jerusalem; the destruction of the city and te...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Lamentation for the misery of Jerusalem....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 2. A LAMENT OVER WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM DUE TO THE LORD'S ANGER. This chapter also divides up into sections. In the first 9 verses the prophet describes in forceful detail what ‘the So...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PUNISHMENT OF NATIONAL SIN In this second elegy the poet has his attention fixed on something that is beyond Chaldean and Jew. He sees, what the eyes of the world do not see, that the hand of the...

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