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Verse 10. _THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN_
_CHILDREN_] Lamentations 2:20. But here there is a reference to
mothers eating their own children; and this was done, not by mothers
cr...
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PITIFUL - i. e. tender-hearted, compassionate. meat is used for food
Psalms 69:21. What is here stated actually occurred during the siege
of Jerusalem by Titus....
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CHAPTER 4 THE DEPARTED GLORY AND THE CUP OF SHAME
This new lament begins with a description of the former glory of Zion
and its present wretchedness; the glory is departed:
How is the gold become di...
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LAMENTATIONS 4. THE FOURTH LAMENT. This has less literary finish than
Lamentations 4:3, and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much
of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:1, and...
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PITIFUL. tender-hearted.
HAVE SODDEN, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:56;
Deuteronomy 28:57). Compare 2 Kings 6:29.
CHILDREN. babes....
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Cp. ch. Lamentations 2:20, and Jeremiah 19:9.
_pitiful_ (hitherto) compassionate. For this meaning, as opposed to
its modern sense, pitiable, cp. Latimer, _Sermons_, p. 391. "Because I
speak here of...
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THE HANDS, &C.— _The hands of tender-hearted women have boiled their
own children: they served them for meat in their calamity,_ &c....
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
A RUINED KINGDOM
Lamentations 4:1-22
The fourth poem is an alphabetic acrostic like that found in Chapter s
1 and 2 with the exception that the stanzas here have two lines
instea...
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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they
were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. THE
HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN CHILDREN - (;...
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ZION'S FORMER GLORY CONTRASTED WITH HER PRESENT HUMILIATION
In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various
classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom.
In...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 4
JEREMIAH CONTINUES TO SPEAK.
V1 Look! The gold has stopped shining! Look how the best gold has
changed! The stones of the *temple...
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THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN. — See Note on Lamentations 2:20....
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יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיֹּ֔ות
בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְ
בָרֹות֙ לָ֔מֹו בְּ שֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת
־עַמִּֽי׃ ס...
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CONTRASTS
Lamentations 4:1
IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its
predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of
Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-tw...
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The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which
nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the
disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the s...
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_Pitful. So their nature dictates. (Worthington) --- But hunger made
them the reverse. Some think they slew their children, to prevent them
being exposed to more cruel torments, (Calmet) as the people...
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How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the
stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The
precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they e...
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Here Jeremiah refers to that disgraceful and abominable deed mentioned
yesterday; for it was not only a barbarity, but a beastly savageness,
when mothers boiled their own children. That it was done is...
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Jeremiah, having now found Jehovah in the affliction, tranquilly
measures its whole extent. But this is itself a consolation. For after
all Jehovah who changes not is there to comfort the heart. This...
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THE HANDS OF THE PITIFUL WOMEN HAVE SODDEN THEIR OWN CHILDREN,....
Such as were naturally, and agreeably to their sex, pitiful and
compassionate; merciful to the poor, as the Targum; and especially
te...
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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they
were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ver. 10. _The hands of the pitiful women have sodden._] Sodden the...
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_The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children_ The
affection of a mother toward her children is the strongest of all
natural affections, and yet the famine hath forced that tender sex...
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JERUSALEM'S AFFLICTION A PUNISHMENT FOR HER GUILT...
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1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most
exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in
the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its
o...
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This was according to what God had threatened in case of disobedience,
DEUTERONOMY 28:57, and a thing which hath often happened in sieges, 2
KINGS 6:29. Such things did happen in the last destruction...
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Lamentations 4:10 hands H3027 compassionate H7362 women H802 cooked
H1310 (H8765) children H3206 food H1262 (H8763) destruction H7667
daughter H1323 people H5971
hands - Lamentations 4:3, Lamentation...
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THE SAD CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM DUE TO THE ANGER OF YHWH
(LAMENTATIONS 4:1).
Lamentations 4:1
(Aleph) How is the gold become dim!
How is the most pure gold changed!
The (precious) sto...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation on the direful effects of calamities of Judah.
Sins of the leaders acknowledged.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the
mea...
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Lamentations 4:1. _How is the gold,_ זהב _zahab,_ so called because
of its superior lustre to other metals, now _become dim._ Gold does
not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers and...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How the Gold Has Grown Dim.
Chapter Lamentations 4:1 returns to themes in chs. Lamentations 1:1
yet also announces the completion of Jerusalem’s punishment. The
c...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ג). Lamentations 4:3. Beasts of prey show affection for their brood.
EVEN THE JACKALS DRAW OUT—present—THE BREAST; a familiar fact
testifying that they were true to their instincts...
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THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT. EDOM'S TRIUMPHING.
EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 4:1
HOW IS THE GOLD BECOME DIM!… THE STONES OF THE SANCTUARY, etc. "Alas
for the sad sights of the capture...
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The fourth lamentation:
How is the gold become dim! the most fine gold changed! the stones of
the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious
sons of Zion, comparable to fine go...
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2 Kings 6:26; 2 Kings 6:29; Deuteronomy 28:56; Deuteronomy 28:57;
Isaiah 49:15; Lamentations 3:48; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:3...