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Verse Lamentations 4:5. _EMBRACE DUNGHILLS._] Lie on _straw_ or
_rubbish_, instead of the costly carpets and sofas on which they
formerly stretched themselves....
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THEY THAT WERE BROUGHT UP IN SCARLET - literally, “those that were
carried upon scarlet;” young children in arms and of the highest
birth now lie on the dirt-heaps of the city....
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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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EMBRACE. Compare Job 24:8....
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_delicately_ luxuriously. Children are still the subject, and not, as
has been suggested, rich persons. In the latter case we should have to
render _carried on scarlet_(i.e. litters or couches furnish...
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THEY THAT DID FEED DELICATELY, &C.— See the note on 1 Samuel 2:8
where it has been observed that it was usual in the east to burn dried
dung, and consequently to lay up heaps of it for use in their
co...
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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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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that
were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
THEY THAT DID FEED DELICATELY - on dainties. ARE DESOLATE - or,
perish.
THEY THA...
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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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THEY THAT WERE BROUGHT UP... — Literally, _that were carried_ (as
children are carried). “Scarlet” as in 2 Samuel 1:24, stands for
the shawls or garments of the rich, dyed, as they were, in the Tyrian...
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הָ אֹֽכְלִים֙ לְ מַ֣עֲדַנִּ֔ים
נָשַׁ֖מּוּ בַּ † חוּצֹ֑ות הָ
אֱמֻנִים֙ עֲלֵ֣י תֹולָ֔ע חִבְּק֖וּ
אַשְׁפַּתֹּֽות׃ 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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_Scarlet. Literally, "yellow;" croceis. (Haydock) --- Hebrew means
purple. Those who have been educated in the most delicate manner, are
forced to feed on the most disgusting things, 4 Kings vi. 25.,...
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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 he goes on farther, and says, that they had perished with famine
who had been accustomed to the most delicate food. He had said
generally that infants found nothing in their mothers’ breasts, but...
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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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THEY THAT DID FEED DELICATELY ARE DESOLATE IN THE STREETS,.... That
were brought up in the king's palace, or in the houses of noblemen;
or, however, born of parents rich and wealthy, and had been used...
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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that
were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Ver. 5. _They that did feed delicately._] Such uncertainty there is of
outward afflu...
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_Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast The very dragons have drawn
out the breast:_ so Blaney. Even these fierce and destructive animals
are not so unnatural as to neglect the care of their young...
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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 judgment reached not only to the common people, but to persons of
the highest rank and order, whose misery was now so much the greater,
because so contrary to their former splendid state and way...
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Lamentations 4:5 ate H398 (H8802) delicacies H4574 desolate H8074
(H8738) streets H2351 up H539 (H8803) scarlet H8438 Embrace H2263
(H8765) heaps H830
that did - Deuteronomy 28:54-56; Isaiah 3:16-26,...
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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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1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Samuel 1:24; Amos 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:54; Isaiah
24:6; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 32:9; Jeremiah 6:2; Jeremiah 6:3; Jeremiah
9:21