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THEIR VISAGE ... - Their form (their whole person, see 1 Samuel
28:14)... as in the margin. See Job 30:30.
IT IS WITHERED, IT IS BECOME LIKE A STICK - Or, It has become dry like
a piece of wood....
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CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME
This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion
and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed:
How is the gold become dim...
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LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than
Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much
of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
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KNOWN. recognized....
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Cp. Lamentations 4:1. The emaciation produced by famine and hardship
is vividly pourtrayed. Cp. Job 19:20; Job 30:30....
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_blacker than a coal_ lit. as mg. _darker than blackness_.
_Their skin cleaveth to their bones_ Cp. Job 19:20....
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
A RUINED KINGDOM
Lamentations 4:1-22
The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s
1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines
instea...
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick. THEIR VISAGE IS BLACKER THAN A COAL - or, 'than...
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ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION
In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various
classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom.
In...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 4
JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK.
V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has
changed! The stones of the *temple...
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THEIR VISAGE IS BLACKER... — We look, as it were, on the two
pictures: the bloom and beauty of health, the wan, worn, spectral
looks of starvation....
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חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִ שְּׁחֹור֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔ם לֹ֥א
נִכְּר֖וּ...
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CONTRASTS
Lamentations 4:1
IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its
predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of
Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two...
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The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which
nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the
disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
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Their (e) visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick.
(e) They who were before most in God's favou...
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_Coals. Hebrew, "blackness." Septuagint, "soot." (Haydock) --- The
people were naturally brown. Fasting and distress cause them to turn
black, chap. v. 10., and Joel ii. 6. (Calmet) --- They were so
c...
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How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the
stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The
precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they e...
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Now, on the contrary, he says that the _Nazarites were become
withered, that their skin clave to their bones, _that, in short, they
were so deformed that they could not be known, not only in obscure
c...
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Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly
measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after
all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
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THEIR VISAGE IS BLACKER THAN A COAL,.... Or, "darker than blackness";
or, "dark through blackness" y; by reason of the famine, and because
of grief and trouble for themselves and their friends, which...
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick.
Ver. 8. _Their visage is blacker than a coal._]...
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_Her Nazarites were purer than snow_ It seems the word, נזיריה,
ought not to be translated here _Nazarites_, or those who were
_separated_ by a vow to God; but _princes_, or _chief men:_ so
Waterland...
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JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
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Their visage, now that the calamity has come upon them, IS BLACKER
THAN A COAL, than blackness, or soot; THEY ARE NOT KNOWN IN THE
STREETS, because their appearance is so dreadfully altered; THEIR SKI...
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1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most
exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in
the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its...
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They that in the prosperity of the city were fair, plump, and ruddy,
look now black for want of fit nourishment, and through sorrow and
grief; insomuch that those who before knew them by their counten...
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Lamentations 4:8 appearance H8389 blacker H2821 (H8804) soot H7815
unrecognized H5234 (H8738) streets H2351 skin...
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THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH
(LAMENTATIONS 4:1).
Lamentations 4:1
(Aleph) How is the gold become dim!
How is the most pure gold changed!
The (precious) sto...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah.
Sins of the leaders acknowledged.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the
mea...
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Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because
of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does
not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
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A BLACK FACE
Their visage is blacker than a coal. Lamentations 4:8.
We all know what it is to have a black face. There are three kinds of
black faces in the world. Some people have all three, a goo...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim.
Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs....
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:8 BLACKER THAN SOOT. A compete
reversal of v. Lamentations 4:7....
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood.
EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact
testifying that they were true to their instincts...
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THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING.
EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 4:1
HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas
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The fourth lamentation:
How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of
the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious
sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
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Isaiah 52:14; Job 19:20; Job 2:12; Job 30:17; Job 30:30;...
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Not known — So that those who before knew them, do not know them
now....