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Verse 13. _WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE_] Or, rather, as Dr. _Blayney_,
"What shall I urge to thee?" How shall I comfort thee?
_THY BREACH_ IS _GREAT LIKE THE SEA_] Thou hast a _flood_ of
_afflictions_, a...
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EQUAL - i. e. “compare.” Zion’s breach, i. e. her destruction,
is measureless, like the ocean....
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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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Lament over Zion's exposure to the mockery of her enemies....
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_shall I testify unto thee_ or, as mg. _take to witness for thee_. If
the MT. be right, we can only explain it as meaning, Of what shall I
assure thee? But it is better, specially in view of the paral...
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WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS FOR THEE— _With what likeness
shall I compare thee?_ "What instance can I bring of any calamity like
thine? that such an example may be some mitigation of thy misery...
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II. THE PROPHET'S SINCERE SYMPATHY FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:11-16
TRANSLATION
(11) MY eyes are spent with weeping, my inward parts are troubled, my
heart is poured out to the ground because of t...
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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...
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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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WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS... — Practically the question is
the same as that which follows, and implies that there was no parallel
to the sufferings of Zion in the history of the past. Had the...
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מָֽה ־אֲעִידֵ֞ךְ מָ֣ה אֲדַמֶּה
־לָּ֗ךְ הַ בַּ
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THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN
Lamentations 2:10
PASSION and poetry, when they fire the imagination, do more than
personify individual material things. By fusing the separate objects
in the crucible of a co...
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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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(i) 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 brea...
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_Sea. This is an hyperbole, to express the greatness of sorrow, as the
sea surpasses all other waters. (Worthington)_...
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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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When we wish to alleviate grief, we are wont to bring examples which
have some likeness to the case before us. For when any one seeks to
comfort one in illness, he will say, “Thou art not the first no...
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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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WHAT THING SHALL I TAKE TO WITNESS FOR THEE?.... What argument can be
made use of? what proof or evidence can be given? what witnesses can
be called to convince thee, and make it a clear case to time,...
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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 ...
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_The elders, &c., sit upon the ground, and keep silence _
These and the other expressions of this and the two following verses
betoken the deepest mourning and sorrow. _Mine eyes do fail with
tears_ M...
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THE VANITY OF HUMAN CONSOLATION TOGETHER WITH A PLEA FOR HELP...
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? to bring some measure of
comfort from the experience of others. WHAT THING SHALL I LIKEN TO
THEE, O DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM? in making some comparison which...
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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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The sum of this verse is, that the miserable condition of the people
was both _incomparable_ and _incurable_. There was no people whose
miserable condition was in any degree parallel to the misery of...
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Lamentations 2:13 console H5749 (H8686) (H8675) H5749 (H8799) what
H4100 liken H1819 (H8762) daughter...
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THE PROPHET ADDRESSES JERUSALEM RECOGNISING THAT THAT HER UNIQUE STATE
IS SUCH THAT HE CAN OFFER NO COMFORT BECAUSE ALL IS AGAINST HER
(LAMENTATIONS 2:13).
The prophet sees the people of Jerusalem as...
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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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_Mine eyes do fail with tears._
THE MISERIES OF THE CHURCH TAKEN TO HEART
1. The true ministers of God do take the miseries of the Church to
heart in the greatest measure.
2. Our sorrow, humiliatio...
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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(מ) Lamentations 2:13. He is ready, as a servant of the All-merciful
and All-wise, to speak on His behalf, so as to alleviate the clamant
wretchedness; but he feels unable. WHAT SHA...
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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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2 Samuel 5:20; Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 26:3; Ezekiel 26:4; Jeremiah 14:17
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Who — There was no people whose condition was in any degree parallel
to the misery of the Jews: nor was there any cure for them, their
breach was like a sea breach where the waters come in with such a...