Lamentations 2
1 Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem.
20 He complains thereof to God.
Lord <0136> [How.]
covered <05743> [covered.]
thrown down <07993> [and cast.]
splendor <08597> [the beauty.]
<01916> [his footstool.]
Bet <01104> [swallowed.]
tore <02040> [he hath thrown.]
knocked .... ground <05060 0776> [brought them down to. Heb. made to touch.]
humiliated <02490> [polluted.]
army <07161> [the horn.]
destroyed ........ withdrew <01438 07725> [he hath.]
<01197> [he burned.]
prepared <01869> [bent.]
strong young men <05869 04261> [that were pleasant to the eye. Heb. the desirable of the eye.]
poured out <08210> [he poured.]
enemy <0341> [was.]
destroyed Israel ... destroyed <01104 03478> [he hath swallowed up Israel.]
mourn <08386> [mourning.]
destroyed <02554> [he hath violently.]
"He hath destroyed the temple, as if it had been no better than a cottage erected in a garden, while the fruit is gathering, and then removed, or suffered to decay."
temple <07900> [tabernacle. or, hedge. as if.]
meeting place ............ festivals <04150> [caused.]
king <04428> [the king.]
rejected <02186> [cast off.]
<05462> [given up. Heb. shut up.]
shouted <05414> [they have.]
determined <02803> [purposed.]
prepared ... knock ... down <05186> [stretched.]
withdraw <07725> [he hath not.]
destroying <01104> [destroying. Heb. swallowing up.]
ramparts <02426> [he made.]
gates <08179> [gates.]
king <04428> [her king.]
guidance <08451> [the law.]
prophets <05030> [her prophets.]
elders <02205> [elders.]
sit <03427> [sit.]
Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Jud‘a capta.}
silence <01826> [and keep.]
thrown <05927> [cast up.]
dressed <02296> [they have girded.]
young women <01330> [the virgins.]
eyes <05869> [eyes.]
stomach <04578> [my bowels.]
heart <03516> [my liver.]
destruction <07667> [for.]
children <05768> [because.]
faint <05848> [swoon. or, faint.]
wounded <02491> [as the.]
<05315> [soul.]
Mem <05749> [shall I take.]
what ....... what .......... what ................. wound <04100 07667> [for.]
heal <07495> [who can.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
expose <01540> [they have.]
worthless ...................... worthless <07723> [false.]
The combination of scorn, enmity, rage, and exultation, which the conquerors and spectators manifested at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, are here described with peculiar pathos and energy. The whole scene is presented to view as in an exquisitely finished historical painting.
passed <05674> [that pass.]
Samek <05606> [by. Heb. by the way. clap.]
sneered <08319> [they.]
shook <05128> [wag.]
city <05892> [Is this.]
enemies <0341> [thine.]
gnashed <02786> [gnash.]
destroyed <01104> [We have swallowed.]
see <07200> [we have seen.]
done <06213> [done.]
overthrown <02040> [he hath thrown.]
enemy <0341> [he hath caused.]
heart <03820> [heart.]
wall <02346> [O wall.]
tears <01832> [let tears.]
Daughter ....................... tears <01323> [the apple.]
{Bath ayin,} which sometimes means the pupil of the eye, seems here to denote tears, the produce of the eye; and therefore elegantly termed the daughter of the eye.
Cry out <07442> [cry out.]
night watches <0821> [watches.]
Pour out <08210> [pour.]
Lift up <05375> [lift up.]
fainting <05848> [that faint.]
Consider <05027> [consider.]
women <0802> [Shall the women.]
healthy <02949> [of a span long. or, swaddled with their hands. shall the priest.]
young boys .................. young men <05288 0970> [young.]
young women <01330> [my virgins.]
slaughtered <02873> [thou hast killed.]
terrify <04032> [my terrors.]
bore <02946> [those.]
