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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...
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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...
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ENTERED INTO HER SANCTUARY. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy
23:3),. technical expression. App-92.
CONGREGATION. convocation, or assembly....
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_pleasant_ lit. _desirable, precious_, with special reference to the
Temple treasures (2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 52:19; 2 Kings 25:15).
For the whole _v_. cp....
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UPON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS— The latter part of the verse explains
what is meant by this phrase; namely, the offerings and presents made
to the sanctuary....
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The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:
for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom
thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congreg...
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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...
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PLEASANT THINGS] primarily the vessels of the sanctuary (2 Chronicles
36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19), but ineluding all of Jerusalem's precious
possessions.
12-19. Zion's comfortless condition due to Jeh...
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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...
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UPON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS... — The use of a like phrase in 2
Chronicles 36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:19, of the vessels of the Temple,
leads us to think primarily or them; but the word itself has a wider...
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יָדֹו֙ פָּ֣רַשׂ צָ֔ר עַ֖ל כָּל
־מַחֲמַדֶּ֑יהָ...
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SIN AND SUFFERING
Lamentations 1:8
THE doctrinaire rigour of Judaism in its uncompromising association of
moral and physical evils has led to an unreasonable disregard for the
solid truth which lies...
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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...
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The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:
for she hath seen [that] the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom
(m) thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy...
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_Church. Deuteronomy xxxiii. 1., and Ezechiel xliv. 9. The Chaldeans
disregarded the ordinance._...
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Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that
honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea,
she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her sk...
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The Prophet again deplores the profanation of all sacred things; and
this complaint, as I have said, proceeded from the bitterest sorrow;
for though it was a sad thing for the faithful, to lose all th...
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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...
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THE ENEMY HATH SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS ON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS,....
Meaning not the wealth and riches, the goods and substance, or the
rich furniture in their own houses; but the precious things in th...
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_The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:
for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom
thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy
con...
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_The adversary hath_ Or rather, _did, spread his hand upon all her
pleasant things_ Hebrew, מחמדיה, _her desirable things_, namely,
her riches, and what else she most desired to preserve. _She hath se...
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The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things,
blasphemously robbing even the precious vessels and appointments of
the Temple; FOR SHE HATH SEEN THAT THE HEATHEN ENTERED INTO HER...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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PLEASANT:
Or, desireable...
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1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times
Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the
Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation.
Je...
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HATH SPREAD OUT HIS HAND UPON ALL HER PLEASANT THINGS; that is, hath
got them into possession. By pleasant things are here to be understood
the ornaments of the temple, upon which the enemy had laid v...
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Lamentations 1:10 adversary H6862 spread H6566 (H8804) hand H3027
things H4261 seen H7200 (H8804) nations H147
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THE STATE OF THE ONE-TIME GREAT CITY OF JERUSALEM IS DESCRIBED
(LAMENTATIONS 1:1).
The prophet here commences by bewailing the state of Jerusalem. He
pines over what it has lost, and describes it in t...
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WHAT JERUSALEM HAS BECOME (LAMENTATIONS 1:8).
Having outlined what Jerusalem had lost the prophet now turns his
thoughts to what she has become. She has become like a menstrual woman
whose situation i...
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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...
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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...
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_The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things._
SPOLIATION
1. The wicked are usually merciless towards the godly, spoiling them
and theirs in most cruel manner, if the Lord re...
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_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed._
THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH
The emphatic word is “therefore.” It rings with sad and solemn
cadence through the most mournful of all the books...
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LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins
with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ח) Lamentations 1:8. JERUSALEM HAS SINNED A SIN, has broken the law
of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty;
THEREFORE SHE IS BECOME AS AN UNCLEAN ONE; not...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 1:1
A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 23:3; Ezekiel 44:7; Ezekiel 7:22; Ezekiel 9:7; Isaiah 5:13
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Lamentations 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see
the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We can hear H...
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Pleasant things — Has laid violent hands on them. The things of the
sanctuary were always pleasant things to those that feared God....