
Text -- Lamentations 1:15 (NET)




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Wesley: Lam 1:15 - -- God had called an assembly of Chaldeans against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it.
God had called an assembly of Chaldeans against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it.

God had trodden upon the Jews as men use to stamp grapes in a wine - press.
JFB: Lam 1:15 - -- MAURER, from Syriac root, translates, "cast away"; so 2Ki 23:27. But Psa 119:118, supports English Version.
MAURER, from Syriac root, translates, "cast away"; so 2Ki 23:27. But Psa 119:118, supports English Version.

JFB: Lam 1:15 - -- They fell not on the battlefield, but in the heart of the city; a sign of the divine wrath.
They fell not on the battlefield, but in the heart of the city; a sign of the divine wrath.

JFB: Lam 1:15 - -- The collected forces of Babylon; a very different "assembly" from the solemn ones which once met at Jerusalem on the great feasts. The Hebrew means, l...
The collected forces of Babylon; a very different "assembly" from the solemn ones which once met at Jerusalem on the great feasts. The Hebrew means, literally, such a solemn "assembly" or feast (compare Lam 2:22).

JFB: Lam 1:15 - -- Hath forced her blood to burst forth, as the red wine from the grapes trodden in the press (Isa 63:3; Rev 14:19-20; Rev 19:15).
Hath forced her blood to burst forth, as the red wine from the grapes trodden in the press (Isa 63:3; Rev 14:19-20; Rev 19:15).
Clarke -> Lam 1:15
Clarke: Lam 1:15 - -- Called an assembly - The Chaldean army, composed of various nations, which God commissioned to destroy Jerusalem.
Called an assembly - The Chaldean army, composed of various nations, which God commissioned to destroy Jerusalem.
Calvin -> Lam 1:15
Calvin: Lam 1:15 - -- She first says, that all her valiant men had been trodden underfoot. Now we know how much the Jews trusted in their men even to the very time wh...
She first says, that all her valiant men had been trodden underfoot. Now we know how much the Jews trusted in their men even to the very time when they were wholly subdued. As then they had shewed so much insolence and pride towards the prophets, it hence became a cause of greater sorrow, when Jerusalem herself saw that she was destitute of every protection, and that her valiant men were trodden under foot. She says, in the midst of me. And this ought to be observed; for if they had fallen on the field of battle, if they had been taken in the fields by their enemies, such a thing would not have been so grievous: but that they had been thus laid prostrate, in the very bosom of the city, was indeed a token of vengeance from above. We now see that this circumstance was not superfluous, that all the valiant men of Jerusalem were laid prostrate in the midst of her.
It is then said that it was the fixed time, when God destroyed her chosen men, or her youth. Should it seem preferable to take
There is then another metaphor used, — that God had trodden the winepress as to the daughter of Zion. This figure occurs elsewhere, as in Isa 63:1,
“Who is this that cometh from Edom? and why are his garments red?”
For the Prophet wonders how God could come forth from Edom, sprinkled with blood. God answers, “The winepress have I trod alone;” that is, because he had avenged the wrongs done to his people. For we know that the Idumeans had always been incensed against the miserable Jews. Then God, in order to shew that lie was the defender of his Church, says that he came from Edom, and was sprinkled and even made wet with blood. As when any one is red with wine after having toiled in the winepress, so also is the representation in this place. We have also seen in Jer 51:33, that Babylon was like a threshing-floor. The metaphor, indeed, is different, but bears a likeness to the present. As, then, God is said to tread, or to thresh, when he afflicts any land, so he is said to tread the winepress, as here. 141 It follows, —
TSK -> Lam 1:15
TSK: Lam 1:15 - -- trodden : 2Ki 9:33, 2Ki 24:14-16, 2Ki 25:4-7; Psa 119:118; Isa 5:5, Isa 28:18; Jer 50:26 *marg. Dan 3:13; Mic 7:10; Mal 4:3; Luk 21:24; Heb 10:29
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Barnes -> Lam 1:12-16
Barnes: Lam 1:12-16 - -- The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lam 1:13 It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued. He hath turne...
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate.
It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued.
He hath turned me back - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to escape, but finds every outlet blocked by nets, and recoils from them with terror and a sense of utter hopelessness.
Bound by his hand - As the plowman binds the yoke upon the neck of oxen, so God compels Judah to bear the punishment of her sins.
They are wreathed, and ... - Or, they are knotted together, "they come up"etc. Judah’ s sins are like the cords by which the pieces of the yoke are fastened together Jer 27:2; they are knotted and twined like a bunch upon the neck, and bind the yoke around it so securely that it is impossible for her to shake it off.
He hath made ... - Or, it hath made "my strength"to stumble. The yoke of punishment thus imposed and securely fastened, bows down her strength by its weight, and makes her totter beneath it.
The Lord - The third distich of the verse begins here, and with it a new turn of the lamentation. The title Adonai (properly, my Lord) is in the Lamentations used by itself in fourteen places, while the name Yahweh is less prominent; as if in their punishment the people felt the lordship of the Deity more, and His covenant-love to them less.
The Lord hath trodden under foot - Or,
In the midst of me - They had not fallen gloriously in the battlefield, but remained ignominiously in the city.
Assembly - Or, "a solemn feast;"the word especially used of the great festivals Lev 23:2.
The Lord hath trodden ... - Or, "
Poole -> Lam 1:15
Poole: Lam 1:15 - -- In the midst of me may be interpreted either as pleonastical , or as denoting the place in which they lost their valiant men, viz. in the midst of t...
In the midst of me may be interpreted either as pleonastical , or as denoting the place in which they lost their valiant men, viz. in the midst of the city during the siege, not in the field.
He hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men instead of those solemn assemblies that were wont to be called together within Jerusalem by sound of trumpet for the solemn worship of God, God had called an assembly of Chaldeans as adversaries against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it.
The Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press God had trodden upon the Jews as men use to stamp grapes in a wine-press, where they use to crush them to pieces to get out the juice, and then they throw the husks, that are good for nothing, upon the dunghills. These are but various expressions to set out the misery into which God had brought this people for their sins.
Haydock -> Lam 1:15
Haydock: Lam 1:15 - -- Mighty. Hebrew, "magnificent" princes, (Luke xxii. 25.) or warriors. ---
Time of vengeance. All in animated. Hebrew also, "a troop" of Chaldeans...
Mighty. Hebrew, "magnificent" princes, (Luke xxii. 25.) or warriors. ---
Time of vengeance. All in animated. Hebrew also, "a troop" of Chaldeans, chap. ii. 22. ---
Juda. God, as the first cause, punishes the Jews by war.
Gill -> Lam 1:15
Gill: Lam 1:15 - -- The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me,.... As a causeway is trodden; or as mire is trodden under foot in the streets;...
The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me,.... As a causeway is trodden; or as mire is trodden under foot in the streets; so were the mighty and valiant men, the soldiers and men of war, trodden under foot and destroyed by the Chaldeans in the streets of Jerusalem, and in the midst of Judea; the Lord so permitting it:
he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men; the army of the Chaldeans, which were brought against Jerusalem by a divine appointment and call; against whom the choicest and stoutest of them, even their young men, could not stand; but were crushed and broken to pieces by them. The word for "assembly" sometimes signifies an appointed time; a time fixed for solemn festivals, and for calling the people to them; and so the Targum here,
"he hath called or appointed a time to break the strength of my young men;''
the time of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians:
the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress; in the winepress of his wrath; or however in the winepress of the Babylonians, who are compared to one; into whose hands the Jews falling, were like grapes cast into a winepress, and there trodden by men, in order to squeeze and get out the wine; and in like manner were their blood squeezed out of them and shed. The Targum interprets it of the blood of virginity being poured out, as wine in a press; the virgins of Judah being ravished and defiled by the enemy.

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NET Notes: Lam 1:15 The expression the virgin daughter, Judah is used as an epithet, i.e. Virgin Judah or Maiden Judah, further reinforcing the feminine anthrpomorphism.
Geneva Bible -> Lam 1:15
Geneva Bible: Lam 1:15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath tr...

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TSK Synopsis -> Lam 1:1-22
TSK Synopsis: Lam 1:1-22 - --1 The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins.12 The attention and compassion of beholders demande...
MHCC -> Lam 1:12-22
MHCC: Lam 1:12-22 - --Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings...
Matthew Henry -> Lam 1:12-22
Matthew Henry: Lam 1:12-22 - -- The complaints here are, for substance, the same with those in the foregoing part of the chapter; but in these verses the prophet, in the name of th...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Lam 1:12-16
Keil-Delitzsch: Lam 1:12-16 - --
The lamentation of the city . - Lam 1:12. The first words, לוא אליכם , are difficult to explain. The lxx have οἱ πρὸς ὑμ...
Constable -> Lam 1:1-22; Lam 1:12-22
Constable: Lam 1:1-22 - --I. The destruction and misery of Jerusalem (the first lament) ch. 1
This acrostic lament contains a variety of s...
