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Verse Lamentations 1:3. _BETWEEN THE STRAITS._] She has been brought
into such difficulties, that it was impossible for her to escape. Has
this any reference to the circumstances in which Zedekiah an...
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BECAUSE OF ... - i. e. the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the
whole land, “is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and
laborious servitude,” to which they are subject in their own land...
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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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AMONG THE HEATHEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:64;
Deuteronomy 28:65).
HEATHEN. nations.
PERSECUTORS. pursuers.
BETWEEN THE STRAITS. Like. hunted animal driven where there is no
escape....
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_is gone into captivity because of affliction_ The better rendering
is, _is gone into_ EXILE (so mg.) _because of affliction_, i.e. the
long sufferings of the Jews at the hands of Egypt and Chaldaea h...
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BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION, AND—SERVITUDE— _She sitteth in affliction
and in great service among the heathen, and findeth no rest._
Houbigant....
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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...
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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of
great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:
all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. JUDAH IS...
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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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BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION AND.. GREAT SERVITUDE] i.e. Judah chose exile to
escape the sufferings to which she was exposed in her own land
(Jeremiah 40:11). BETWEEN THE STRAITS] RV 'within the straits.'...
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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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BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION. — The Authorised version suggests the thought
that the words refer to the voluntary emigration of those who went to
Egypt and other countries (Jeremiah 42:14), to avoid the oppr...
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גָּֽלְתָ֨ה יְהוּדָ֤ה מֵ עֹ֨נִי֙ וּ מֵ
רֹ֣ב
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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...
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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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_Rest. Many returning to join Godolias, chap. xl. 7. (Calmet) --- The
Jews who beheld their brethren led away to Babylon, retired into
Egypt, but were in misery. (Worthington)_...
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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...
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Interpreters apply this, but in my view improperly, to the captivity
of the people; on the contrary, the Prophet means that the Jews had
been scattered and sought refuges when oppressed, as they were...
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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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JUDAH IS GONE INTO CAPTIVITY,.... Not only Jerusalem the metropolis of
Judea was destroyed, but the whole country was ravaged, and the
inhabitants of it carried captive into Babylon:
BECAUSE OF AFFLI...
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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of
great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:
all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Ver. 3....
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_Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction_, &c. Her miseries
have received their finishing stroke in a total captivity among, and
bondage to, heathen and infidels, because of the oppression...
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Judah is gone into captivity, led away into exile, BECAUSE OF
AFFLICTION, the misery upon the country on account of the occupation
of the land by the Chaldeans, AND BECAUSE OF GREAT SERVITUDE, the
ser...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SHAMEFUL LOT WHICH HAS COME UPON JERUSALEM...
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BECAUSE OF GREAT SERVITUDE:
_ Heb._ for the greatness of servitude...
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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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This is expounded as the cause why the Jews were carried into
captivity, because of the servitude and oppression exercised amongst
them, oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally,
keepi...
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Lamentations 1:3 Judah H3063 captivity H1540 (H8804) affliction H6040
hard H7230 servitude H5656 dwells H3427 (H8
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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...
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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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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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_Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction._
AFFLICTIVE DISPENSATIONS
1. The outward things of this life are the soonest lost; and being
enjoyed, the most uncertain.
(1) They are most subj...
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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 1:3 GONE INTO EXILE. See Jeremiah
52:24. BECAUSE OF AFFLICTION AND HARD SERVITUDE. See...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ג) Lamentations 1:3. JUDAH, the population of the whole territory,
with that of Jerusalem, IS TAKEN INTO EXILE, a subjugated,
impoverished remnant being left. FROM AFFLICTION, the...
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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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2 Chronicles 36:20; 2 Chronicles 36:21; 2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 24:15;...
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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...
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Because — Because of the servitude and oppression exercised among
them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally;
keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when they ought to...