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Verse 10. _OUR SKIN WAS BLACK - BECAUSE OF THE TERRIBLE FAMINE._]
Because of the _searching winds_ that burnt up every green thing,
destroying vegetation, and in consequence producing a famine....
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OUR SKIN ... - Or, is fiery red like an oven because of the
fever-blast “of famine.”...
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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 feverishness and wasting brought on by hunger is meant.
_black_ or as mg. _hot_....
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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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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. OUR
SKIN WAS BLACK LIKE AN OVEN - as an oven is scorched with too much
fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (margin, rightly,...
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5:10 gloweth (e-3) * Or 'fiery red,' as 'burned,' Genesis 43:30 ;
'yearned,' 1 Kings 3:26 ; 'kindled,' Hosea 11:8 ....
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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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BLACK] RM 'hot.' TERRIBLE FAMINE] RV 'burning heat of famine.'...
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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 SKIN WAS BLACK...-Better, _fiery red,_ and for “terrible
famine,” _the fever-blast of famine._ The words paint the hot fever
of hunger rather than the livid paleness of exhaustion....
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עֹורֵ֨נוּ֙ כְּ תַנּ֣וּר נִכְמָ֔רוּ מִ
פְּנֵ֖י...
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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 given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be
satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
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Some read, “for tremors;” literally, “from the face of
tremors.” Jerome renders it, “tempests,” but the word
“burnings” is the most suitable; for he says that their skins were
darkened, and he compare...
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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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OUR SKIN WAS BLACK LIKE AN OVEN, BECAUSE OF THE TERRIBLE FAMINE. Or
"terrors [and horrors of] famine"; which are very dreadful and
distressing: or, "the storms of famine"; see Psalms 11:6; or, "burnin...
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Ver. 10. _Our skin was black like an oven._] Or, As a chimney, Isa
31:9 being still beaten upon with the fire that is within it,
_ Bec...
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_Our fathers have sinned, and are not_ Death hath secured our fathers
from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they
escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Jere...
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine,
glowing with the heat of fever brought on by their condition....
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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TERRIBLE:
Or, terrors or storms...
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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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The want of bread caused leanness, and paleness, and ill colours in
their faces....
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Our skin is stirred up (or ‘black') like an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.
The starvation conditions in which they were living had had its effect
on their bodies. Their skin glowed like...
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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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_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 5:10. The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their
lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. OUR SKIN IS HOT
LIKE AN OVEN; the feverishness is BECAUSE O...
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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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Job 30:30; Lamentations 3:4; Lamentations 4:8; Psalms 119:83...