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Verse 9. _SHE REMEMBERETH NOT HER LAST END_] Although evident marks of
her pollution appeared about her, and the land was defiled by her
sinfulness even to its utmost borders, she had no thought or
co...
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HER FILTHINESS IS IN HER SKIRTS - Her personal defilement is no longer
concealed beneath the raiment Jeremiah 13:22.
SHE CAME DOWN WONDERFULLY - Jerusalem once enthroned as a princess
must sit on the...
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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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REMERNBERETH. remembered.
LAST END. hereafter.
WONDERFULLY. Hebrew, plural "wonders". a great wonder.
BEHOLD. see, behold. Same word as in verses: Lamentations 1:18;
Lamentations 1:20. Not the same...
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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 she come down wonderfully_ Cp. Isaiah 47:1....
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DISCOURSE: 1090
THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT REMEMBERING OUR LATTER END
Lamentations 1:9. _She remembereth_ [Note: It should rather be,
remembered.] _not her lost end; therefore she came down wonderfully_...
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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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Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;
therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD,
behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. HER
F...
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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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HER FILTHINESS] moral pollution, expressed by a bold but common
Oriental figure (Jeremiah 13:22).
SHE REMEMBERETH NOT] RV 'she remembered not.'...
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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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HER FILTHINESS. — The picture of pollution is pushed to its most
loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled.
SHE REMEMBERETH NOT... — Better, _she remembered not._ It was her
reckl...
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טֻמְאָתָ֣הּ בְּ שׁוּלֶ֗יהָ לֹ֤א
זָֽכְרָה֙ אַחֲרִיתָ֔הּ...
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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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(l) Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her latter
end; therefore she hath been wonderfully abased: she had no comforter.
O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified...
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_End in her prosperity, to avert this misfortune. (Haydock) ---
Idolatry is a spiritual adultery, (Worthington) and one of the worst
species of filth. (Haydock)_...
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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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He continues here, as I think, the same subject; he had said at the
end of the last verse that turpitude or baseness had been seen at
Jerusalem; and now he says that it was on the very _fringes _or
sk...
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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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HER FILTHINESS [IS] IN HER SKIRTS,.... Her sin is manifest to all,
being to be seen in her punishment. The allusion is to a menstruous
woman, to whom she is compared, both before and after; whose bloo...
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_Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;
therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD,
behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself]._...
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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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Her filthiness is in her skirts, as of a woman Levitically unclean;
SHE REMEMBERETH NOT HER LAST END, she did not consider the result of
her persistent iniquity, THEREFORE SHE CAME DOWN WONDERFULLY, t...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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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 persisteth in his comparison of the Jewish people, either to a
sluttish, nasty woman, or to an impudent woman that is not ashamed to
expose her nastiness or wickedness to the view of all. SHE REMEM...
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Lamentations 1:9 uncleanness H2932 skirts H7757 consider H2142 (H8804)
destiny H319 collapse H3381 (H8799) awesome...
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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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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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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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_She remembereth not her last end: therefore she came down
wonderfully._
THE WICKED SURPRISED BY THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION
There are certain great principles in the Divine administration, the
operation o...
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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 1:9 HER UNCLEANNESS. The sins she
committed (v. Lamentations 1:8) were IN HER SKIRTS, that
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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 Peter 4:17; 1 Samuel 1:11; 2 Kings 14:26; 2 Samuel 16:12;...
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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...