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Verse Lamentations 5:4. _WE HAVE DRUNKEN OUR WATER FOR MONEY_] I
suppose the meaning of this is, that every thing was taxed by the
Chaldeans, and that they kept the management in their own hands, so...
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Better as in the margin cometh to us for price. The rendering of the
the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the
original. The bitterness of the complaint lies in this, that it w...
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CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE
The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come
upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of
confession and of hope, which reaches t...
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LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous
four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the
chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
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The bitterness of their captive state is shewn by the fact that they,
the rightful owners, were compelled to buy from the enemy who had come
into possession the commonest necessaries of life.
_is sol...
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OUR WOOD IS SOLD UNTO US— _Our wood came at a price upon our necks;_
Lamentations 5:5. _We are under persecution,_ &c. Houbigant. That
numbers of the Israelites had no wood growing on their own lands...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
A PENITENT NATION
Lamentations 5:1-22
The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the
four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form.
But...
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. WE
HAVE DRUNKEN OUR WATER FOR MONEY. The Jews were compelled to pay the
enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of...
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ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE
This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The
tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of
vindictiveness. The poe...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 5
JEREMIAH IS PRAYING.
V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and
see our shame....
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OUR WATER... OUR WOOD. — The point of the complaint lies in the
possessive pronoun. The Chaldæan conquerors were in possession of the
country, and the very necessaries of life, which had been looked o...
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AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION
Lamentations 5:1
UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic.
There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various
conjectures that have...
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The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on
behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember.
He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
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We have drank our (b) water for money; our wood is sold to us.
(b) Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage....
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_Water. Even this was not given for nothing._...
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to
aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We
ha...
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The Prophet here relates, that the people were denuded, that they
labored under the want of water and of wood. He does not say that they
were only deprived of corn and wine, he does not complain that...
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The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God,
as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the
path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
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WE HAVE DRUNKEN OUR WATER FOR MONEY,.... They who in their own land,
which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, had
wells of water of their own, and water freely and in abundance, n...
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Ver. 4. _We have drunk our water for money._] Fire, water, and air are
common good, _quae iure naturae sunt omnium et singulorum,_ saith...
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_Consider, and behold our reproach_ Which we suffer from the heathen
nations. _Our inheritance is turned to strangers_ Namely, to the
Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. _We are orpha...
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We have drunken our water for money, namely, that which was rightfully
their own; OUR WOOD IS SOLD UNTO US, they were obliged to buy the very
necessaries of life from the conquerors or pay exorbitant...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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IS SOLD UNTO US:
_ Heb._ cometh for price...
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1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out
his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not
of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient u...
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This seemeth to refer to the state of the Jews in Babylon, where it is
probable their adversaries made them buy both water and wood, which in
the land of Canaan they had plentifully, and without any f...
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Lamentations 5:4 pay H3701 water H4325 drink H8354 (H8804) wood H6086
price H935 (H8799) H4242...
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We have drunk our water for money,
Our wood is sold to us.
Previously the water from their springs and rivers, and from their own
cisterns, had been freely available to them. Now they were being
char...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity.
Supplications for the return of mercy.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God
is th...
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REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more
minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles
himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
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_We have drunken our water for money, our wood is sold unto us._
ZION’S SUFFERINGS
1. Common necessaries denied by adversaries. Fire and water are two
necessary elements, but though God in nature hav...
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_Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us._
AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSION
The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc.
It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his God...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O
Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for
restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches.
OUR INHERITANCE, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which
his descendants had held possession for ge...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 5:1
INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
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Fifth lamentation:
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to
aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
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Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezekiel 4:9; Isaiah 3:1...
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Sold — Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water
throughout Judea....