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Verse 7. _DID MOCK AT HER SABBATHS._] משבתה _mishbatteha_. Some
contend that _Sabbaths_ are not intended here. The _Septuagint_ has
κατοικεσια αυτης, "her habitation;" the _Chaldee_, על
טובהא al _tub...
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Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction,
And of her homelessness,
All her pleasant things which have been from the days of old:
Now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary,
And...
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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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PLEASANT THINGS. Hebrew. things of desire. Put by Figure of speech
_Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the things she used to enjoy.
SABBATHS: or, sabbath-keepings; which she had herself profaned. See
Jeremi...
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The _v_. should, like the rest, be tripartite, whereas as it stands it
has four lines. Löhr and others (probably rightly) consider "All her
… old" as a gloss. We should then omit the "in" of the first...
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JERUSALEM REMEMBERED, &C.— _Jerusalem remembers in the days of her
affliction, and of her exile, all the pleasant things which she had in
the days of old. Her people fall into the hand of the enemy, a...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
A WIDOWED CITY
Lamentations 1:1-22
Chapter one of Lamentations has two major divisions. In Lamentations
1:1-11 the prophet laments the present condition of Zion. Twice in
this uni...
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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when
her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:...
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1:7 wanderings, (d-10) Or 'miseries.' see ch. 3.19; Isaiah 58:7 . into
(e-15) Or 'by.' ruin. (f-49) Or 'cessation' or 'days of rest,' and see
Leviticus 26:43 ....
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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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REMEMBERED] RV 'remembereth.'
SABBATHS] RV 'desolations,' in the sense probably of ceasings: cp. the
enforced sabbaths of Leviticus 26:34; Leviticus 26:35. The Heb. word
employed here is not found el...
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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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JERUSALEM REMEMBERED. — Better, _remembereth._ The present is
contrasted with the past. Still. the “sorrow’s crown of sorrow is
remembering happier things.”
THAT SHE HAD IN THE DAYS OF OLD. — Better,...
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זָֽכְרָ֣ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם יְמֵ֤י
עָנְיָהּ֙ וּ מְרוּדֶ֔יהָ...
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DESOLATION
Lamentations 1:1
THE first elegy is devoted to moving pictures of the desolation of
Jerusalem and the sufferings of her people. It dwells upon these
disasters themselves, with fewer refere...
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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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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her
people (i) fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her...
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_Of all. She compares her past happiness with her present
chastisement. --- Sabbaths, or days of rest. The pagans derided them
as so much lost time. Ignava et partem vitæ non attigit ullam.
(Juvenal v...
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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she
become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess
among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth...
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He confirms the former verse when he says, that _Jerusalem remembered
her desirable things _when she was afflicted by God’s hand, and
reduced to extreme want. And he in-intimates by these words, that...
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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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JERUSALEM REMEMBERED IN THE DAYS OF HER AFFLICTION AND OF HER
MISERIES,.... When carried captive, and in exile in a foreign land;
when surrounded with distresses and calamities of various kinds; which...
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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her
people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:...
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_Jerusalem remembered in her affliction and misery._ The word
מרודים, here rendered _misery_, frequently signifies
_banishment_ and _captivity._ The LXX. render it απωσμων,
_rejections_, or _expulsion...
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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, the members
of the Jewish Church recalling with eager remembrance the gl...
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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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The inhabitants of Jerusalem, now that they are in affliction and
misery, have time to remember their former mercies, and with how many
desirable things God had once blessed them, and compare her form...
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THE PROPHET PINES OVER WHAT JERUSALEM HAS LOST (LAMENTATIONS 1:1).
In these opening verses (Lamentations 1:1) Jerusalem is pictured by
the writer in terms of how it now was, an empty city, a widow and...
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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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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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_Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction, and of her
miseries, all her pleasant things._
THE ACTION OF THE MEMORY IN PAIN
I. It generally refers to the “pleasant things” of the past. This...
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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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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:7 In exile the people recall the
days of David, Solomon, and Josiah (ALL THE PRECIOUS THINGS) in DAYS
OF OLD. These precious things have been replaced with worthles...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ה) Lamentations 1:5. HER ADVERSARIES ARE BECOME THE HEAD, AS WAS
threatened if unfaithful to the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:44); HER ENEMIES
PROSPER, are in peace, and rest secure, knowi...
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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 4:34; Deuteronomy 4:7; Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 8:7;...
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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...