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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:2

She weepeth sore in the night. — The intensity of the sorrow is emphasised by the fact that the tears do not cease even in the time which commonly brings rest and repose to mourners. The “lovers” and the “friends” are the nations, Egypt (Jeremiah 2:36), Edomites, Moabites, and others, with which Judah had been in alliance, and which now turned against her. (Comp. Psalms 137:7; Ezekiel 25:3; Jeremiah 40:14, for instances of their hostility, and specially Lamentations 4:21.)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Lamentations 1:2. _AMONG ALL HER LOVERS_] Her allies; her _friends_, instead of helping her, have helped her enemies. Several who sought her friendship when she was in prosperity, in the time of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LOVERS ... FRIENDS - i. e. the states in alliance with Judaea, and all human helpers....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WEEPETH SORE. Note Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). The Hebrew. a weeping she weepeth. Thus well rendered. See note on Genesis 26:28. and note the Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6). LOVERS...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Löhr points out as special characteristics of this ch. the writer's yearning for revenge, and also his full recognition of the sin of his own time as well as of earlier generations. Lamentations 1:1 f...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the night_ The time of natural silence and darkness is made a part of the picture in order to heighten the effect. The absence of the distractions of the day intensifies the sense of bereavement....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AMONG ALL HER LOVERS, &C.— "All her allies, whose friendship she courted by sinful compliances, have forsaken her in the _night_ of her afflictions, and even joined with her enemies in insulting over...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A WIDOWED CITY Lamentations 1:1-22 Chapter one of Lamentations has two major divisions. In Lamentations 1:1-11 the prophet laments the present condition of Zion. Twice in this uni...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. SHE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LOVERS] synonymous with FRIENDS, viz. her allies Edom and Egypt (Lamentations 4:22)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    • Many people used to come to *Jerusalem. They do not come any more. God wants to make the people sorry. And he wants to make them turn back to himself. God is able to take our friends away from us if...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בָּכֹ֨ו תִבְכֶּ֜ה בַּ † לַּ֗יְלָה וְ דִמְעָתָהּ֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    DESOLATION Lamentations 1:1 THE first elegy is devoted to moving pictures of the desolation of Jerusalem and the sufferings of her people. It dwells upon these disasters themselves, with fewer refere...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    She weepeth bitterly in the (c) night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her (d) lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become he...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Night; privately, or without ceasing. --- Friends, who had made a league with Sedecias, chap. xxvii. 3., and xlviii. 26._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah still pursues the same subject, for he could not have spoken briefly and in a few words of things so bitter and mournful; and he seems to have felt deeply the ruin of his own country. And whe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SHE WEEPETH SORE IN THE NIGHT,.... Or, "weeping weeps" i; two weepings, one for the first, the other for the second temples k; and while others are taking their sleep and rest; a season fit for mourne...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _She weepeth sore in the night_ In the Hebrew, according to the idiom of that language, it is, _Weeping she weepeth_, which our old English version renders, _She weepeth continually._ The expression,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    She weepeth sore in the night, the slumber being driven away from her eyelids by the greatness of her sorrow, AND HER TEARS ARE ON HER CHEEKS, since they flow without stopping and have no chance to dr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    All her hours are hours of sadness, she doth not only mourn in the day time, but in the night also, when she should rest; her cheeks are like the grass in the morning, hanging full of drops, as if her...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Lamentations 1:2 weeps H1058 (H8799) bitterly H1058 (H8800) night H3915 tears H1832 cheeks H3895 lovers H157 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROPHET PINES OVER WHAT JERUSALEM HAS LOST (LAMENTATIONS 1:1). In these opening verses (Lamentations 1:1) Jerusalem is pictured by the writer in terms of how it now was, an empty city, a widow and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _She weepeth sore in the night._ LONELY SORROW 1. According to the measure of God’s correcting hand upon us, must our grief be. (1) Because God is sure to be (at the least) so angry as His rods are...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:2 Jerusalem WEEPS BITTERLY IN THE NIGHT because of her losses (v. Lamentations 1:1). lovers... fri

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:1 present the city as she is in sharp contrast with what she was, and as an object of deep distress, on account of her sins and their penalties. The verses have a pi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:22; Hosea 2:7; Isaiah 51:18; Isaiah 51:19;

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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