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Verse Lamentations 1:22. _LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE_]
That is, Thou wilt call their crimes also into remembrance; and thou
wilt do unto them by siege, sword, famine, and captivity, wha...
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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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LET ALL, &C. This prayer is in accordance with that Dispensation. Not
with this. See App-63.
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44.
AS =. according as.
TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellions. Hebrew. _pasha'._ A...
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See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now
speaks....
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C. The Appeal to God Lamentations 1:20-22
TRANSLATION
(20) Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my inward parts are
troubled, my heart is turned within me because I have grievously
rebelled. In the...
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Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou
hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many,
and my heart is faint.
LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE...
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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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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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LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS... — The prayer for a righteous
retribution, the first natural prayer of the outraged, reminds us of
Psalms 69, 109, 137, yet more strongly of the language of the prophet
hims...
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תָּבֹ֨א כָל ־רָעָתָ֤ם לְ פָנֶ֨יךָ֙ וְ
עֹולֵ֣ל לָ֔מֹו כַּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר
עֹולַ֛לְתָּ לִ֖י עַ֣ל כָּל...
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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...
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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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(t) Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do to them, as thou
hast done to me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many,
and my heart [is] faint.
(t) Of desiring vengeance against t...
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_Let. He prays not for their ruin, but predicts it; and wishes rather
that they would be converted. (Calmet)_...
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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, no doubt, the faithful regarded as a part of their comfort the
judgment which God would at length execute on the ungodly; and there
is no doubt but that this kind of imprecation had been suggest...
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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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LET ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS COME BEFORE THEE,.... The Targum adds,
"in the day of the great judgment;''
but it seems to refer to present time, at least to the time fixed by
the Lord for their ruin; and...
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Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou
hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many,
and my heart [is] faint.
Ver. 22. _Let their wickedness come...
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_They have heard that I sigh_ The nations contiguous to me, Egypt and
others, that before pretended to be my friends and allies, have been
no strangers to my bitter afflictions, which have forced sigh...
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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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This verse is another prophetical curse or imprecation, several of
which we meet with in holy writ, PSALMS 109:6 137:8 JEREMIAH 11:20,
JEREMIAH 18:23, and in many other texts; which would incline us t...
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Lamentations 1:22 wickedness H7451 come H935 (H8799) before H6440 do
H5953 (H8778) done H5953 (H8782) transgressions H6588 sighs H585 many
H7227 heart H3820 faint H1742
all their - Nehemiah 4:4-5; Ps...
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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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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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_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. Lamentations 1:1)
and reports of her calls for help (vv. Lamentations 1:12). Jerus...
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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, LAMENTATIONS 1:2
The fate of Jerusalem is described in language which resembles here
and there that used in Isaiah of...
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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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Ephesians 3:13; Isaiah 13:7; Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 18:23; Jeremiah
51:35; Jeremiah 8:18; Lamentations 1:13; Lamentations 5:17; Luke
23:31;...