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Verse 9. _WE GAT OUR BREAD WITH_ THE PERIL OF _OUR LIVES_] They could
not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to get the
necessaries of life, without being harassed and plundered by maraud...
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WE GAT - Or, We get “our bread at the peril of our lives.” This
verse apparently refers to those who were left in the land, and who in
gathering in such fruits as remained, were exposed to incursions...
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CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE
The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come
upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of
confession and of hope, which reaches t...
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LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous
four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the
chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
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WE GAT OUR BREAD. We brought home our bread.
LIVES. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Some codices, with one early
printed edition, read "souls".
SWORD OF THE WILDERNESS. "The sword" is put, by Figu...
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_We get our bread_ The reference is to the bands of wild Arabs
(Bedaween), who plundered them as they ventured from the shelter of
the city to reap the harvest or to tend the cattle or sheep of their...
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WITH THE PERIL OF OUR LIVES, &C.— I can no otherwise understand
this, than that on account of their weak and defenceless state the
people were continually exposed, while they followed their necessary...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
A PENITENT NATION
Lamentations 5:1-22
The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the
four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form.
But...
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of
the wilderness. WE GAT OUR BREAD WITH THE PERIL OF OUR LIVES - i:e.,
those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldea...
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ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE
This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The
tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of
vindictiveness. The po...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 5
JEREMIAH IS PRAYING.
V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and
see our shame....
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THE SWORD OF THE WILDERNESS. — Another element of suffering is
hinted at. Those who were left in the land were attacked, as they
gathered in their scanty harvest, by the nomad tribes of the
wilderness...
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בְּ נַפְשֵׁ֨נוּ֙ נָבִ֣יא לַחְמֵ֔נוּ
מִ פְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַ מִּדְבָּֽר׃...
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AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION
Lamentations 5:1
UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic.
There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various
conjectures that have...
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The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on
behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember.
He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
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We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the
sword (e) of the wilderness.
(e) Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not
suffer us to go and seek our neces...
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_Sword. Any one might kill us._...
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be
satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
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The word חרב, _chereb_, means drought as well as sword. As the
Prophet is speaking of famine and the desert,, I have no doubt but
that dryness or drought is _sword _the word means here; and I wonder
t...
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The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God,
as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the
path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
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WE GAT OUR BREAD [WITH THE PERIL OF] OUR LIVES,.... This seems to
refer to the time of the siege when they privately went out of the
city to get in some provision, but went in danger of their lives:...
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We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of
the wilderness.
Ver. 9. _We gat our bread with the peril of our lives._] So did our
good ancestors the bread of life, while thei...
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_Our fathers have sinned, and are not_ Death hath secured our fathers
from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they
escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Jere...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out
his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not
of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient un...
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The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so as they could stir out
no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them, and what victuals
they got they adventured their lives for, during the time o...
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Lamentations 5:9 get H935 (H8686) bread H3899 lives H5315 Because
H6440 sword H2719 wilderness H4057
Judges 6:11; 2 Samuel 23:17; Jeremiah 40:9-12, Jeremiah 41:1-10,
Jeremiah 41:18
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
When they left the safety of their cities and went into the
countryside, which was now bare and neglected, in orde...
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CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity.
Supplications for the return of mercy.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God
is th...
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REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more
minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles
himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
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_Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us._
AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSION
The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc.
It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his God...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O
Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for
restoration. It includes an opening petition (v. Lamentations 5:1), a
descript...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 5:6. Judæa was on the verge of famine through the
foragings of the invaders, and, under the ominous shadow of
starvation, TO EGYPT WE HAVE GIVEN THE HAND, _i.e.,_ impl...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 5:1
INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 5:2
OUR INHERITANCE. The land had been "given" to Abraham (Genesis 13:1;
Genesis 17:8), and was consequen...
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Fifth lamentation:
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to
aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
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2 Samuel 23:17; Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel 12:19; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel
4:17; Jeremiah 40:9; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 41:18; Jeremiah 42:14;...
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The sword — The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they
could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them....