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Verse 11. _THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR PLEASANT THINGS_] Jerusalem is
compared to a woman brought into great straits, who parts with her
jewels and trinkets in order to purchase by them the necessaries of
l...
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SIGH ... SEEK - Are sighing ... are seeking. The words are present
participles, describing the condition of the people. After a siege
lasting a year and a half the whole country, far and near, would b...
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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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The people have already given up their most valuable possessions, that
they had hitherto hoarded, for bread. There is therefore nothing now
between them and starvation.
_meat_ food. Cp. note on "obla...
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All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant
things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I
am become vile.
ALL HER PEOPLE SIGH, THEY SEEK BREAD - (; ,...
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1:11 soul. (a-19) Or 'life.'...
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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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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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ALL HER PEOPLE SIGH.... — The words which describe the famine at
Jerusalem are in the present tense, either as painting the sufferings
of the past with the vividness of the historic present, or becaus...
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כָּל ־עַמָּ֤הּ נֶאֱנָחִים֙
מְבַקְּשִׁ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם נָתְנ֧וּ
_מַחֲמַדֵּיהֶ֛ם_
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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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_O. Hebrew of the Masorets, "It is." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Is it
nothing to you, all?" &c. (Haydock) --- But the Vulgate is much
clearer, and approved by many Protestants, lu being often used as...
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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 here complains that all the citizens of Jerusalem were
constantly groaning through want and famine. He first says, that _all
were sighing_. The word “people” is collective, and hence he us...
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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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ALL HER PEOPLE SIGH,.... Not her priests only, Lamentations 1:4; but
all the common people, because of their affliction, particularly for
want of bread. So the Targum,
"all the people of Jerusalem si...
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All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant
things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I
am become vile.
Ver. 11. _All her people sigh._] And so thin...
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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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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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All her people sigh, with the calamity of the severe famine as a
further cause for groaning, THEY SEEK BREAD; THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR
PLEASANT THINGS FOR MEAT TO RELIEVE THE SOUL, no valuables being too...
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RELIEVE THE SOUL:
Or, to make the soul to come again...
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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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He speaketh probably with reference to the siege, after which the
people had scarcely any pleasant things to exchange for bread. The
whole body of the people was in a sad condition; and in a land that...
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Lamentations 1:11 people H5971 sigh H584 (H8737) seek H1245 (H8764)
bread H3899 given H5414 (H8804) valuabl
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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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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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_All her people sigh, they seek bread._
GRIEF AT LOSSES
I. It is awful for the godly to be grieved with and take to heart
their worldly losses--
(1) Because the things of this life are God’s blessi...
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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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1 Samuel 30:11; 1 Samuel 30:12; 2 Kings 6:25; Deuteronomy 28:52;...
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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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Bread — Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and honey,
they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given — And gave any thing for
something to satisfy their hunger. Vile — Miserable or contempti...