Verse Lamentations 1:22. _LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE_] That is, Thou wilt call their crimes also into remembrance; and thou wilt do unto them by siege, sword, famine, and captivity, wha...
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...
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...
LET ALL, &C. This prayer is in accordance with that Dispensation. Not with this. See App-63. WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. AS =. according as. TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellions. Hebrew. _pasha'._ A...
See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....
_For my sighs are many_ The connexion is, I have had my punishment. Do thou then proceed to inflict upon them their share. For the sentiment, as contrasted with N.T. teaching, cp. Jeremiah 18:20 ff....
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...
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE...
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...
LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE] a not infrequent prayer of OT. saints for righteous retribution upon the enemy: cp. Psalms 69, 109, 137 Jeremiah 18:20 not altogether unjustifiable, for the...
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...
LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS... — The prayer for a righteous retribution, the first natural prayer of the outraged, reminds us of Psalms 69, 109, 137, yet more strongly of the language of the prophet hims...
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...
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...
(t) Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do to them, as thou hast done to me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint. (t) Of desiring vengeance against t...
_Let. He prays not for their ruin, but predicts it; and wishes rather that they would be converted. (Calmet)_...
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...
Here, no doubt, the faithful regarded as a part of their comfort the judgment which God would at length execute on the ungodly; and there is no doubt but that this kind of imprecation had been suggest...
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...
LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE,.... The Targum adds, "in the day of the great judgment;'' but it seems to refer to present time, at least to the time fixed by the Lord for their ruin; and...
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint. Ver. 22. _Let their wickedness come...
_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...
Let all their wickedness come before Thee, for a just punishment, AND DO UNTO THEM AS THOU HAST DONE UNTO ME FOR ALL MY TRANSGRESSIONS, according to the same righteous judgment; FOR MY SIGHS ARE MANY,...
THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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...
This verse is another prophetical curse or imprecation, several of which we meet with in holy writ, PSALMS 109:6 137:8 JEREMIAH 11:20, JEREMIAH 18:23, and in many other texts; which would incline us t...
Lamentations 1:22 wickedness H7451 come H935 (H8799) before H6440 do H5953 (H8778) done H5953 (H8782) trans
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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...
Ephesians 3:13; Isaiah 13:7; Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 18:23;...