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Verse Lamentations 2:20. _CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS_]
Perhaps the best sense of this difficult verse is this: "Thou art our
_Father_, we are thy _children_; wilt thou _destroy thy own
offs...
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The sense is: “See, Yahweh, and look! whom hast Thou treated thus?
Shall women eat their fruit - children whom they must still carry?”
the swaddled child being one still needing to be nursed and borne...
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CHAPTER 2 WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE
The great catastrophe continues in vivid description throughout this
chapter also. Not an enemy has done it, not Nebuchadrezzar and his
Chaldean hordes, but the Lord i...
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LAMENTATIONS 2. THE SECOND LAMENT. This differs from the first in its
contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same,
_i.e._ there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first word...
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Here begins the prayer made in response to the prophet's exhortation.
The questions are rhetorical and mean (although the verbs are in the
future), Wilt thou look with unconcern at the things which _h...
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CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS— _Whether thou hast done the
like to any one._ Houbigant....
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IV. THE PROPHET'S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:20-22
TRANSLATION
(20) Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this! Shall
women eat their offspring, babes who are carried in the ar...
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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the
women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest
and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? SHALL T...
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ZION'S SORROWS DUE TO JEHOVAH'S ANGER
In this second dirge, the cause of Zion's woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah
has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off.
Zion's miseries are the ju...
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TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS] viz. to His own chosen people. CHILDREN
OF A SPAN LONG] RV 'the children that are dandled in the hands': op.
Lamentations 2:22; Jeremiah 19:9....
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 2
NOW JEREMIAH SPEAKS.
V1 The *Lord’s anger is like a black cloud over Zion (*Jerusalem).
He allowed enemies to destroy the beauty...
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TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS — _i.e.,_ not to a heathen nation, but
to the people whom Jehovah Himself had chosen.
SHALL THE WOMEN EAT THEIR FRUIT. — Atrocities of this nature had
been predicted in Lev...
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רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽ הַבִּ֔יטָה לְ מִ֖י
עֹולַ֣ל
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THE CALL TO PRAYER
Lamentations 2:18
IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the
concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its
transitions are very abrupt....
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In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow
he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct
action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its materi...
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_Dealt. Literally, "gathered grapes," chap. i. 12. (Haydock) --- Long;
quite small, Psalm xxxviii. 9. This has been denounced, chap. xix. 9.,
and Deuteronomy xxviii. 53. (Calmet) It took place at Sama...
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken
to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I
may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach i...
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Here, also, Jeremiah dictates words, or a form of prayer to the Jews.
And this complaint availed to excite pity, that God had thus
afflicted, not strangers, but the people whom he had adopted.
Interpr...
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The second chapter is a very deep and touching appeal. The desolation
of Jerusalem is looked at as Jehovah's own work, on what was His own,
and not as that of the enemy. Never had there been such sorr...
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BEHOLD, O LORD, AND CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS,.... On whom
thou hast brought these calamities of famine and sword; not upon thine
enemies, but upon thine own people, that are called by thy...
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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the
women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest
and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Ver....
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_Behold, O Lord, to whom thou hast done this_ To thy people, for whom
thou hast formerly expressed so much tenderness and affection.
Jerusalem seems to be here introduced speaking. _Shall the women ea...
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Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom Thou hast done this, so the
prayer of the city's inhabitants now arises. SHALL THE WOMEN EAT THEIR
FRUIT, AND CHILDREN OF A SPAN LONG? in revolting cannibalism cau...
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THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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SPAN LONG?:
Or, swadled with their hands...
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10-22 Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by
famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and
eaten, according to the threatening, Deuteronomy 28:53. Multitu...
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CONSIDER TO WHOM THOU HAST DONE THIS; that is, not to heathen, who
never owned thee, nor were called by thy name, but to thine own
people, called thy portion and thine heritage; let thy former relatio...
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Lamentations 2:20 See H7200 (H8798) LORD H3068 consider H5027 (H8685)
done H5953 (H8782) this H3541 women
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THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF
JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO
CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18).
The change between Lame...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation on the effect of the calamities of Judah. God's
passionate consideration appealed to.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The wormwood and gall in affliction is the thought t...
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Lamentations 2:1. _How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with
a cloud._ The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope.
Lamentations 2:2. _The Lord hath swallowed up all the inha...
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_Behold, O Ford, and consider to whom Thou hast done this._
FERVENT PRAYER
1. The only way of remedy in our greatest miseries is to call upon God
in fervent prayer.
(1) It declareth that we are hum...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:1 God Has Set Zion under a
Cloud. This chapter emphasizes the completeness of God’s judgment on
Jerusalem. The verses unfold in three parts, each of which has a
dif...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 2:20 WITH WHOM HAVE YOU DEALT
THUS? Jerusalem was God’s chosen city (1 Kings 9:1), yet God has
judged her ...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ר) Lamentations 2:20. The prayer is put into words correspondent
with the circumstances. SEE, JEHOVAH, AND BEHOLD TO WHOM THOU HAST
DONE THIS, to the city called thine, to the peop...
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ZION'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD. LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS.
EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 2:1
HATH THE LORD COVERED; rather, _doth _… _cover_. THE DAUGHTER OF
ZION; i.e.
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The second lamentation:
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, and he has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of
Israel, and remembered not his footstool...
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1 Samuel 15:3; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Amos 4:10; Deuteronomy 28:50;...
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Whom — Not the Heathen, but to thy own people. Women — Wilt thou
suffer women to satisfy their hunger with the fruit of their own
bodies?...