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Verse 19. _I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS_] My allies; the _Egyptians_ and
others....
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I CALLED FOR ... - Rather, to “my lovers.”
WHILE THEY SOUGHT THEIR MEAT - literally, “for they sought food for
themselves to revive their souls.” Complete the sense by adding,
“and found none.”...
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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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GAVE UP THE GHOST. expired, or breathed their last....
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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_my lovers_ See on Lamentations 1:2.
_meat to refresh their souls_ See on Lamentations 1:11. The LXX add
(but unnecessarily, and with injury to the metre), _and found it not_....
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I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS— That is, "My allies, the Egyptians, and
others, who had promised me assistance, but in the day of necessity
cast me off." See on Lamentations 1:2.
_WHILE THEY SOUGHT THEIR MEAT...
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B. The Appeal to Neighboring Nations Lamentations 1:17-19
TRANSLATION
(17) Zion spreads forth her hands, but there is none to comfort her.
The LORD has given commandment concerning Jacob that his nei...
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I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine
elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to
relieve their souls. I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS - (; , "All thy lov...
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1:19 soul. (a-28) Or 'life.'...
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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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LOVERS] see on Lamentations 1:2. MY PRIESTS AND MINE ELDERS] Even the
most honoured chiefs of the city died of starvation.
20-22. In distress Zion appeals to Jehovah for redress....
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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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I CALLED FOR. — Better, _to._ The “lovers,” as in Lamentations
1:2, are the former allies of Judah.
MY PRIESTS AND MINE ELDERS. — The pressure of the famine of the
besieged city is emphasised by the f...
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קָרָ֤אתִי לַֽ † מְאַהֲבַי֙ הֵ֣מָּה
רִמּ֔וּנִי כֹּהֲנַ֥י...
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ZION'S APPEAL
Lamentations 1:12
IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the
speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers,
then to the larger circle of the s...
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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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_Me. Egypt attempted to relieve Juda, to no purpose, ver. 2. (Calmet)
--- It could not, or at least did not, prove of any service to the
Jews, chap. ii. 18. (Worthington)_...
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From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against
them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he
hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my
tra...
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Here the people of God complain in the person of a woman, as we have
before seen, that in their calamity they were left destitute of every
comfort. And it is a circumstance which increases grief, when...
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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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I CALLED FOR MY LOVERS, [BUT] THEY DECEIVED ME,.... Either her idols,
with whom she had committed spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry; but
these could not answer her expectations, and help her: or t...
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I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and mine
elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to
relieve their souls.
Ver. 19. _I called for my lovers, but th...
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_The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled_, &c. He does me no wrong
in dealing thus with me, nor can I charge him with any injustice.
Observe, reader, whatever the troubles are which God is pleased...
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I called for my lovers, the nations which had professed an interest of
true affection, BUT THEY DECEIVED ME; MY PRIESTS AND MINE ELDERS GAVE
UP THE GHOST IN THE CITY, both the spiritual and the tempor...
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THE LAMENT OF THE CITY AND THE ANSWER OF THE LORD...
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12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that
passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her
outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...
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I desired help of my allies and confederates who courted my friendship
and alliance in any prosperity, but they failed mine expectation, none
of them either would or could succour me. My misery was su...
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Lamentations 1:19 called H7121 (H8804) lovers H157 (H8764) deceived
H7411 (H8765) priests H3548 elders H2205
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JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER
CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12).
This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which
Jerusalem...
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JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BEHOLD HER PITIABLE STATE
(LAMENTATIONS 1:12).
Lamentations 1:12
(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Behold, and see,
If there be any sorrow like to...
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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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_I called for my lovers, but they deceived me._
DECEITFUL HELPERS
1. It is an increase of sorrow to be disappointed of their help by
whom we looked to be delivered out of our troubles.
2. God often...
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_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_
ZION’S APPEAL
1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy.
Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be
passi...
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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem.
The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition,
12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...
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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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Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 23:11; Jeremiah 27:13;...
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Deceived — They did not answer my expectation....