This chapter, like Lamentations 1 and Lamentations 2, is an acrostic: the twenty-two verses commencing successively with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. GOLD... MOST FINE GOLD... FINE GOLD. Figure of speech _Anabasis_, which is lost in Authorized Version rendering, which should be "g... [ Continue Reading ]
FINE GOLD. pure gold. See note above. AS EARTHEN PITCHERS. The comparison is both in the material and in the workmanship. Compare Jeremiah 18:1; Jeremiah 19:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
OSTRICHES. Compare Job 39:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
EMBRACE. Compare Job 24:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR. And. PUNISHMENT OF THE INIQUITY. This is the full translation of the Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect): the "iniquity "being put for its consequent punishment. PUNISHMENT OF THE SIN. This is the full translation of the Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, the Hebrew _chata_ ... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWN. recognized.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE. have proved.... [ Continue Reading ]
PITIFUL. tender-hearted. HAVE SODDEN, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 28:57). Compare 2 Kings 6:29. CHILDREN. babes.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. KINDLED. FIRE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:22). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
JUST. righteous ones. Compare Matthew 23:31; Matthew 23:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
POLLUTED... WITH BLOOD. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 19:11; Numbers 19:16). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEPART YE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 18:46). HEATHEN. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGER. face. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, as manifesting the anger felt. PERSONS. face. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for the whole person.... [ Continue Reading ]
PERSECUTORS. pursuers. SWIFTER THAN THE EAGLES. Ref, to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49).... [ Continue Reading ]
BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. THE ANOINTED: i.e. Zedekiah was still Jehovah's "anointed", even as Saul was (1 Samuel 26:9 1 Samuel 26:11, 1 Samuel 26:16; 1 Samuel 26:23). PITS. toils. Occurs only here and Psalms 107:20. Hebrew. _shichith._ Compare Jeremiah 2:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
REJOICE, &C. Said in solemn irony. the land of Uz. See notes on p. 666, and App-62. NAKED. Between Lamentations 4:21 and Lamentations 4:22 lies the whole of this present Dispensation. See App-63 and App-72.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCOMPLISHED. completed. VISIT. punish, as in Lamentations 4:6. See note there.... [ Continue Reading ]