LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim. Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs. Lamentations 1:1 yet also announces the completion of Jerusalem’s punishment. The chapter can be divided into four segments: the suffering of Jerusalem’s children (Lamentations 4:1),... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:2 EARTHEN POTS. To be shattered. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:3 Even wild animals feed their young, but Jerusalem’s mothers cannot feed their children. The siege, famine, and devastation are too severe (see Jeremiah 15:1). LIKE THE OSTRICHES IN THE WILDERNESS. In Job 39:13 these creatures abandon their eggs. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ v [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:6 Jerusalem’s sin has been greater than that of SODOM, for she had greater knowledge of God’s will. Therefore, her PUNISHMENT has been greater than Sodom’s. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:7 MORE RUDDY THAN CORAL. Their bodies were perfectly formed and healthy. BEAUTY OF THEIR FORM. Their faces were handsome. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:8 BLACKER THAN SOOT. A compete reversal of v. Lamentations 4:7. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:9 HAPPIER WERE THE VICTIMS OF THE SWORD. Because they died quickly (see v. Lamentations 4:6). PIERCED BY LACK. Rather than by a sword. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:10 The most COMPASSIONATE WOMEN in the land were so hungry that they BOILED THEIR OWN CHILDREN (see Lamentations 2:20; Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:52; 2 Kings 6:29). DURING THE DESTRUCTION. During Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:11 THAT CONSUMED ITS FOUNDATIONS. Babylon was God’s instrument in carrying out this task (Jeremiah 52:12). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:13 SINS OF HER PROPHETS. They did not warn and instruct the people (see Jeremiah 5:30; Jeremiah 23:9). INIQUITIES OF HER PRIESTS. They failed to teach the people God’s word and its directions for godly living (see Hosea 4:1; Malachi 2:1). ⇐ [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:16 THE LORD HIMSELF... SCATTERED THEM. See Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:19; Lamentations 4:13; Lamentations 5:12. NO HONOR... NO FAVOR. Because of their sins, the priests and prophets had lost the respect usually reserved for their persons and offices ... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:18 OUR END HAD COME. The day of the Lord (see Joel 2:1; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:14) had arrived. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:20 The people depended on Jerusalem’s king, THE LORD’S ANOINTED, so much that he was like the very BREATH of their NOSTRILS. They had lived UNDER the SHADOW of his protection. Yet he WAS CAPTURED. See Jeremiah 39:1. ⇐ ⇔... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:21 EDOM took great joy in Jerusalem’s fall and profited from her destruction (Psalms 137:7; Joel 3:19; Obadiah 1:10). BUT TO YOU ALSO THE CUP SHALL PASS. See Jeremiah 49:7, especially v. Lamentations 4:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:22 ACCOMPLISHED. Their PUNISHMENT has ended, and now the long, hard, slow recovery of life, worship, and society can begin. KEEP YOU IN EXILE NO LONGER. Jews began to return to the area by 538–535 B.C. (see Ezra 1:1; Jeremiah 29:10; Daniel 9:1). ⇐... [ Continue Reading ]