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GRIEVOUSLY SINNED - literally, “Jerusalem hath sinned a sin,”
giving the idea of a persistent continuance in wickedness.
REMOVED - Or, become an abomination. Sin has made Jerusalem an object
of horro...
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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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These _vv_. in figurative language describe the Jewish people, as
having brought upon itself through sin and consequent national
humiliation the contempt of all its neighbours, while it is painfully
c...
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_is become_(mg. _is removed) as an unclean thing_ Targ. _has become a
wanderer_, but the text is doubtless right....
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BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEEN HER NAKEDNESS— That is to say, _her
disgrace._ For, according to the idea of those times, nothing could be
inflicted more ignominious or disgraceful than to strip them of their...
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B. Explanation of the Present Condition of Zion
Lamentations 1:8-9 a
TRANSLATION
(8) Jerusalem sinned grievously and therefore she has become filthy;
all who once honored her now despise her, having...
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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.
JERUSALEM HATH GRIEVOUSLY...
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1:8 grievously (g-3) Lit. 'sinned a sin.'...
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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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IS REMOVED] RV 'is become as an unclean thing.' HER NAKEDNESS] her sin
and its punishment (Lamentations 4:21)....
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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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THEREFORE SHE IS REMOVED. — The verb is used technically for the
separation of a woman under ceremonial defilement; and the daughter of
Zion in her sin and shame is compared (as in Lamentations 1:17)...
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חֵ֤טְא חָֽטְאָה֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם עַל
־כֵּ֖ן לְ...
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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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_Unstable. Hebrew also, "removed," (Haydock) like a woman unclean.
(Calmet) --- Such were excluded from places of prayer, and were not
allowed to touch a sacred book, or to pronounce God's name. Their...
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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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Here the Prophet expresses more clearly and strongly what he had
briefly referred to, even that all the evil which the Jews suffered
proceeded from God’s vengeance, and that they were worthy of such a...
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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 HATH GRIEVOUSLY SINNED,.... Or, "hath sinned a sin" r; a
great sin, as the Targum; the sin of idolatry, according to some; or
of covenant breaking, as others; though perhaps no particular si...
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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.
Ver. 8. _Jerusalem hath gr...
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_Jerusalem hath grievously sinned_ Hebrew, חשׂא חשׂאה, _in
sinning hath sinned_, or _hath sinned sin:_ that is, sinned wilfully
and deliberately; hath sinned that sin which of all others is the
abomin...
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Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, chiefly by joining in the idolatry
of Israel and the heathen nations, THEREFORE SHE IS REMOVED, as one
separated from the congregation on account of legal impurity; A...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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IS REMOVED:
_ Heb._ is become a removing or wandering...
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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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She is carried out of her own land into an enemy's country, and made a
hissing and scorn to those who before reverenced her, (in all this God
is righteous, for all orders of men have grievously sinned...
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Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem H3389 sinned H2398 (H8804) gravely H2399
vile H5206 honored H3513 (H8764) despise H210
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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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_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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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:8 JERUSALEM SINNED GRIEVOUSLY.
See v. Lamentations 1:5. FILTHY. Literally, “impurity”; se
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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 Kings 8:46; 1 Kings 8:47; 1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:9; 1 Samuel 2:30;...
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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...