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Text -- Lamentations 5:1-5 (NET)

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The People of Jerusalem Pray:
5:1 O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 5:2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. 5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 5:4 We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 5:5 We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
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Wesley: Lam 5:3 - -- We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an ...

We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.

Wesley: Lam 5:4 - -- Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea.

Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea.

JFB: Lam 5:2 - -- "Thine inheritance" (Psa 79:1). The land given of old to us by Thy gift.

"Thine inheritance" (Psa 79:1). The land given of old to us by Thy gift.

JFB: Lam 5:3 - -- Our whole land is full of orphans [CALVIN]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (Jer 3:19), [GROTIUS].

Our whole land is full of orphans [CALVIN]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (Jer 3:19), [GROTIUS].

JFB: Lam 5:4 - -- The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of Jerusalem; or rather, it refers to their sojourn i...

The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of Jerusalem; or rather, it refers to their sojourn in Babylon; they had to pay tax for access to the rivers and fountains. Thus, "our" means the water which we need, the commonest necessary of life.

JFB: Lam 5:4 - -- In Judea each one could get wood without pay; in Babylon, "our wood," the wood we need, must be paid for.

In Judea each one could get wood without pay; in Babylon, "our wood," the wood we need, must be paid for.

JFB: Lam 5:5 - -- Literally, "On our necks we are persecuted"; that is, Men tread on our necks (Psa 66:12; Isa 51:23; compare Jos 10:24). The extremest oppression. The ...

Literally, "On our necks we are persecuted"; that is, Men tread on our necks (Psa 66:12; Isa 51:23; compare Jos 10:24). The extremest oppression. The foe not merely galled the Jews face, back, and sides, but their neck. A just retribution, as they had been stiff in neck against the yoke of God (2Ch 30:8, Margin; Neh 9:29; Isa 48:4).

Clarke: Lam 5:1 - -- Remember, O Lord - In the Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, this is headed, "The prayer of Jeremiah."In my old MS. Bible: Here bigynneth the orison of Je...

Remember, O Lord - In the Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, this is headed, "The prayer of Jeremiah."In my old MS. Bible: Here bigynneth the orison of Jeremye the prophete

Though this chapter consists of exactly twenty-two verses, the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, yet the acrostic form is no longer observed. Perhaps any thing so technical was not thought proper when in agony and distress (under a sense of God’ s displeasure on account of sin) they prostrated themselves before him to ask for mercy. Be this as it may, no attempt appears to have been made to throw these verses into the form of the preceding chapters. It is properly a solemn prayer of all the people, stating their past and present sufferings, and praying for God’ s mercy

Clarke: Lam 5:1 - -- Behold our reproach - הביט hebita . But many MSS. of Kennicott’ s, and the oldest of my own, add the ה he paragogic , הביטה hebit...

Behold our reproach - הביט hebita . But many MSS. of Kennicott’ s, and the oldest of my own, add the ה he paragogic , הביטה hebitah , "Look down earnestly with commiseration;"for paragogic letters always increase the sense.

Clarke: Lam 5:2 - -- Our inheritance is turned to strangers - The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were left under ...

Our inheritance is turned to strangers - The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were left under Gedaliah were not free, for they were vassals to the Chaldeans.

Clarke: Lam 5:4 - -- We have drunken our water for money - I suppose the meaning of this is, that every thing was taxed by the Chaldeans, and that they kept the manageme...

We have drunken our water for money - I suppose the meaning of this is, that every thing was taxed by the Chaldeans, and that they kept the management in their own hands, so that wood and water were both sold, the people not being permitted to help themselves. They were now so lowly reduced by servitude, that they were obliged to pay dearly for those things which formerly were common and of no price. A poor Hindoo in the country never buys fire-wood, but when he comes to the city he is obliged to purchase his fuel, and considers it as a matter of great hardship.

Clarke: Lam 5:5 - -- Our necks are under persecution - We feel the yoke of our bondage; we are driven to our work like the bullock, which has a yoke upon his neck.

Our necks are under persecution - We feel the yoke of our bondage; we are driven to our work like the bullock, which has a yoke upon his neck.

Calvin: Lam 5:1 - -- This prayer ought to be read as unconnected with the Lamentations, for the initial letters of the verses are not written according to the order of th...

This prayer ought to be read as unconnected with the Lamentations, for the initial letters of the verses are not written according to the order of the Alphabet; yet it is a complaint rather than a prayer; for Jeremiah mentions those things which had happened to the people in their extreme calamity in order to turn God to compassion and mercy.

He says first, Remember what has happened to us; and then in the second part he explains himself, Look and see our reproach Now the words, though brief and concise, yet contain a useful doctrine — that God is pleased to bring help to the miserable when their evils come to an account before him, especially when they are unjustly oppressed. It is, indeed, certain that nothing is unknown to God, but this mode of speaking is according to the perceptions of men; for we think that God disregards our miseries, or we imagine that his back is turned to us when he does not immediately succor us. But as I have said, he is simply to be asked to look on our evils, for we know what he testifies of himself; so that as he claims to himself the office of helping the miserable and the unjustly oppressed, we ought to acquiesce in this consolation, that as soon as he is pleased to look on the evils we suffer, aid is at the same time prepared for us.

There is mention especially made of reproach, that the indignity might move God the more: for it was for this end that he took the people under his protection, that they might be for his glory and honor, as Moses says. As, then, it was God’s will that the riches of his glory should appear in that people, nothing could have been more inconsistent that that instead of glory they should have nothing but disgrace and reproach. This, then, is the reason why the Prophet makes a special mention of the reproach of the people. It follows, —

Calvin: Lam 5:2 - -- A catalogue of many calamities is now given by the Prophet, and as I have reminded you, for this end, that he may obtain God’s favor for himself an...

A catalogue of many calamities is now given by the Prophet, and as I have reminded you, for this end, that he may obtain God’s favor for himself and for the whole people. It was by no means a reasonable thing, that the inheritance of the elect people should be given to aliens; for we know that the land had been promised to Abraham four hundred years before his children possessed it; we know that this promise had been often repeated, “This land shall be to you for an inheritance.” For though God sustained all nations, yet he was pleased to take a peculiar care of his people. In short, no land has ever been given to men in so singular a way as the land of Canaan to the posterity of Abraham. As, then, this inheritance had been for so many ages possessed by the chosen people, Jeremiah does not without reason complain that it was turned over to aliens.

In the second clause he repeats the same thing; but he shews that the Jews had not only been robbed of their fields, but had been cast out of their houses, a more grievous and disgraceful thing. For it sometimes happens, that when one loses his farm, his fields, and vineyards, his house remains to him untouched; but the Prophet here amplifies the misery of his own nation, that they were not only deprived of their fields and possessions, but that they were also ejected from their own houses, and others had possession of them. For it is a sight deemed affecting even among heathens, when one unworthy of any honor succeeds in the place of another eminent in wealth and dignity. Well known are these words, —

O house of Aucus! How ruled by an unequal master! 223

As Tarquinius had succeeded and taken possession of the kingdom, the heathen poet upbraidingly said that the house of Ancus had passed over to those who were at first exiles and fugitives, but afterwards became proud and cruel tyrants. So also in this place Jeremiah says that aliens dwelt in the houses of the people. It follows, —

Calvin: Lam 5:3 - -- Here the Prophet not only speaks in the person of the whole people, but utters also the groans and complaints of each; for this could not have been s...

Here the Prophet not only speaks in the person of the whole people, but utters also the groans and complaints of each; for this could not have been suitable to the whole Church, as he speaks of fathers and mothers. We hence see that this verse does not apply to the whole body, but to individual members, though every one of the people might have said that widows and orphans were everywhere seen.

Now, this usually happens when a nation is consumed either by pestilence or by war; for in one battle all do not so fall that a whole country becomes full of orphans. But the Prophet sets forth here the orphanage and widowhood occasioned through the continued vengeance of God, for he had not ceased to afflict the people until by degrees they were exhausted. It was, indeed, a sad spectacle to see among the chosen people so many widows, and also so many children deprived of their fathers. It follows, —

Calvin: Lam 5:4 - -- The Prophet here relates, that the people were denuded, that they labored under the want of water and of wood. He does not say that they were only de...

The Prophet here relates, that the people were denuded, that they labored under the want of water and of wood. He does not say that they were only deprived of corn and wine, he does not complain that any of their luxuries were lessened; but he mentions water and wood, the common things of life; for the use of water, as it is said, is common to all; no one is so poor, if he dwells not in a land wholly dry, but that he has water enough to drink. For if there be no fountains, there are at least rivers, there are wells; nor do men perish through thirst, except in deserts and in places uninhabitable. As, then, water might be had everywhere, the Prophet here sets forth the extreme misery of the people, for water was even sold to them. In stony and high places water is sold; but this is a very rare thing. The Prophet here means that the people were not only deprived of their wealth, but reduced to such a state of want that they had no water without buying it.

At the same time he seems to express something worse when he says, Our water we drink for money, and our wood is brought to us for a price. It is not strange that wood should be bought; but the Prophet means that water was sold to the Jews which had been their own, and that they were also compelled to buy wood which had been their own. Thus the possessive pronouns are to be considered as emphatical. Then he says, “Our own waters we drink,” etc. 224 He calls them the waters of the people, which by right they might have claimed as their own; and he also calls the wood The same; it was that to which the people had a legitimate right. He then says that all things had been so taken away by their enemies, that they were forced to buy, not only the wine which had been taken from their cellars, and the corn which had been taken from their granaries, but also the water and the wood.

But were any one disposed to take the words more simply, the complaint would not be unsuitable, — that the people, who before had abundance of wine and all other things, were constrained to buy everything, even water and wood. For it is a grievous change when any one, who could once cut wood of his own, and gather his own wine and corn, is not able to get even a drop of water without buying it. This is a sad change. So this passage may be understood. It follows, —

Calvin: Lam 5:5 - -- Here he says that the people were oppressed with a grievous bondage. It is, indeed, a metaphorical expression when he says, that people suffered pers...

Here he says that the people were oppressed with a grievous bondage. It is, indeed, a metaphorical expression when he says, that people suffered persecution on their necks. Enemies may sometimes be troublesome to us, either before our face, or behind our backs, or by our sides; but when they so domineer as to ride on our necks, in this kind of insult there is extreme degradation. Hence the Prophet here complains of the servile and even disgraceful oppression of the people when he says, that the Jews suffered persecution on their necks.

The meaning is, that the enemies so domineered at the, it pleasure, that the Jews dared not to raise up their heads. They were, indeed, worthy of this reward — for we know that they had an iron neck; for when God would have them to bear his yoke, they were wholly unbending; nay, they were like untameable wild beasts. As, then, their hardness had been so great, God rendered to them a just reward for their pride and obstinacy, when their enemies laid such a burden on their necks. 225

But the Prophet sets forth here this indignity, that he might turn God to mercy; that is, that the Chaldeans thus oppressed as they pleased the chosen people.

He adds, that they labored and had no rest. He intimates by these words that there were no limits nor end to their miseries and troubles; for the phrase in Hebrew is, We have labored and there was no rest. It often happens that when one is pressed down with evils for a short time, a relaxation comes. But the Prophet. says that there was no end to the miseries of the people. Then to labor without rest is the same as to be pressed down with incessant afflictions, from which there is no outlet. Their obstinacy was worthy also of this reward, for they had fought against God, not for a few months or years only, but for many years. We know how long the Prophet called them without any success. Here, however, he seeks favor with God, by saying that the people were miserable without limits or end.

Defender: Lam 5:1 - -- The concluding lamentation is not acrostic in its structure like the others, but it does have twenty-two verses like they do. It expresses both hopele...

The concluding lamentation is not acrostic in its structure like the others, but it does have twenty-two verses like they do. It expresses both hopelessness, and hope in the nature of God and His purpose."

TSK: Lam 5:1 - -- Remember : Lam 1:20, Lam 2:20, Lam 3:19; Neh 1:8; Job 7:7, Job 10:9; Jer 15:15; Hab 3:2; Luk 23:42 behold : Lam 2:15, Lam 3:61; Neh 1:3, Neh 4:4; Psa ...

TSK: Lam 5:2 - -- Deut. 28:30-68; Psa 79:1, Psa 79:2; Isa 1:7, Isa 5:17, Isa 63:18; Jer 6:12; Eze 7:21, Eze 7:24; Zep 1:13

TSK: Lam 5:3 - -- Exo 22:24; Jer 18:21; Hos 14:3

TSK: Lam 5:4 - -- have : Deu 28:48; Isa 3:1; Eze 4:9-17 is sold : Heb. cometh for price

have : Deu 28:48; Isa 3:1; Eze 4:9-17

is sold : Heb. cometh for price

TSK: Lam 5:5 - -- Our necks are under persecution : Heb. On our necks are we persecuted, Lam 1:14, Lam 4:19; Deu 28:48, Deu 28:65, Deu 28:66; Jer 27:2, Jer 27:8, Jer 27...

Our necks are under persecution : Heb. On our necks are we persecuted, Lam 1:14, Lam 4:19; Deu 28:48, Deu 28:65, Deu 28:66; Jer 27:2, Jer 27:8, Jer 27:11, Jer 27:12, Jer 28:14; Mat 11:29; Act 15:10

labour : Neh 9:36, Neh 9:37

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Lam 5:1 - -- What is come upon us - literally, "what"has happened "to us:"our national disgrace.

What is come upon us - literally, "what"has happened "to us:"our national disgrace.

Barnes: Lam 5:2 - -- Turned - " transferred."The inheritance was the land of Canaan Lev 20:24. Aliens - Or, "foreigners:"i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conque...

Turned - " transferred."The inheritance was the land of Canaan Lev 20:24.

Aliens - Or, "foreigners:"i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conquest of the country.

Barnes: Lam 5:3 - -- Our mothers are as widows - The particle "as"suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to t...

Our mothers are as widows - The particle "as"suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to that of fatherless orphans or wives just bereaved of their husbands.

Barnes: Lam 5:4 - -- Better as in the margin cometh to us for price. The rendering of the the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the original. The...

Better as in the margin cometh to us for price. The rendering of the the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the original. The bitterness of the complaint lies in this, that it was their own property which they had to buy.

Barnes: Lam 5:5 - -- Our necks ... - i. e. we were pursued so actively that our enemies seemed to be leaning over our necks ready to seize us. We labor - We w...

Our necks ... - i. e. we were pursued so actively that our enemies seemed to be leaning over our necks ready to seize us.

We labor - We were wearied, "there was no rest for us:"being chased incessantly.

Poole: Lam 5:2 - -- What our fathers inherited as given them by thee, and we as left to us by them, is come into the hands of the Chaldeans.

What our fathers inherited as given them by thee, and we as left to us by them, is come into the hands of the Chaldeans.

Poole: Lam 5:3 - -- We are all of us without a king, (who is the common father of the country,) we are deprived of thy fatherly care and protection, many young children...

We are all of us without a king, (who is the common father of the country,) we are deprived of thy fatherly care and protection, many young children amongst us are left without an earthly parent.

Our mothers are as widows either our great cities are like widows, wanting magistrates; or, our women that were married are left widows.

Poole: Lam 5:4 - -- This seemeth to refer to the state of the Jews in Babylon, where it is probable their adversaries made them buy both water and wood, which in the la...

This seemeth to refer to the state of the Jews in Babylon, where it is probable their adversaries made them buy both water and wood, which in the land of Canaan they had plentifully, and without any further charge to them than fetching the one, and cutting down and bringing home the other.

Poole: Lam 5:5 - -- As the generality of prisoners of war are made slaves, and put to hard and incessant labour, so in probability the most of the Jews were at first at...

As the generality of prisoners of war are made slaves, and put to hard and incessant labour, so in probability the most of the Jews were at first at least.

Haydock: Lam 5:1 - -- Thou hast. We might read with an interrogation, (Haydock) in Hebrew, "Hast thou?" &c. The Jews superstitiously repeat the last verse, for fear of e...

Thou hast. We might read with an interrogation, (Haydock) in Hebrew, "Hast thou?" &c. The Jews superstitiously repeat the last verse, for fear of ending the book in an ominous manner, as they do at the end of Isaias and Malachias. (Calmet) ---

Having treated us so severely, stop thy hand. (Worthington) ---

But I perceive it will be in vain to beg for redress till the seventy years be expired. (Menochius)

Haydock: Lam 5:1 - -- The prayer, &c. This title is not in Hebrew, Septuagint, &c. Theodoret has passed over the chapter, as if he doubted of its authenticity. It does ...

The prayer, &c. This title is not in Hebrew, Septuagint, &c. Theodoret has passed over the chapter, as if he doubted of its authenticity. It does not follow the order of Hebrew letters like the preceding, and seems to be a form of prayer for those who retired into Egypt. (Calmet) ---

Jeremias foresees what would happen, and prays as the people would do. (Worthington)

Haydock: Lam 5:2 - -- Aliens. The Idumeans seized and kept possession of the southern parts.

Aliens. The Idumeans seized and kept possession of the southern parts.

Haydock: Lam 5:3 - -- Father. Many had none surviving, and all had lost their king. (Worthington)

Father. Many had none surviving, and all had lost their king. (Worthington)

Haydock: Lam 5:4 - -- Water. Even this was not given for nothing.

Water. Even this was not given for nothing.

Gill: Lam 5:1 - -- Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us,.... This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "the ...

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us,.... This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "the prayer of Jeremiah". Cocceius interprets the whole of the state of the Christian church after the last destruction of Jerusalem; and of what happened to the disciples of Christ in the first times of the Gospel; and of what Christians have endured under antichrist down to the present times: but it is best to understand it of the Jews in Babylon; representing their sorrowful case, as represented by the prophet; entreating that the Lord would remember the affliction they were under, and deliver them out of it, that which he had determined should come upon them. So the Targum,

"remember, O Lord, what was decreed should be unto us;''

and what he had long threatened should come upon them; and which they had reason to fear would come, though they put away the evil day far from them; but now it was come, and it lay heavy upon them; and therefore they desire it might be taken off:

consider, and behold our reproach: cast upon them by their enemies; and the rather the Lord is entreated to look upon and consider that, since his name was concerned in it, and it was for his sake, and because of the true religion they professed; also the disgrace they were in, being carried into a foreign country for their sins; and so were in contempt by all the nations around.

Gill: Lam 5:2 - -- Our inheritance is turned to strangers,.... The land of Canaan in general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their inheritance; and their ...

Our inheritance is turned to strangers,.... The land of Canaan in general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their inheritance; and their field, and vineyards in particular, which came to them by inheritance from their fathers, were now in the hands of the Chaldeans, strangers to God, and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, as all Gentiles were, Eph 2:12;

our houses to aliens; which they had built or purchased, or their fathers had left them, were now inhabited by those of another country.

Gill: Lam 5:3 - -- We are orphans and fatherless,.... In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a civ...

We are orphans and fatherless,.... In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a civil sense, their king being taken from them; and in a religious sense, God having forsaken them for their sins:

our mothers are as widows; either really so, their husbands being dead; or were as if they had no husbands, they not being able to provide for them, protect and deferred them. The Targum adds,

"whose husbands are gone to the cities of the sea, and it is doubtful whether they are alive.''

Some understand this politically, of their cities being desolate and defenceless.

Gill: Lam 5:4 - -- We have drunken our water for money,.... They who in their own land, which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, had wells of water ...

We have drunken our water for money,.... They who in their own land, which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, had wells of water of their own, and water freely and in abundance, now were obliged to pay for it, for drink, and other uses:

our wood is sold unto us; or, "comes to us by a price" r; and a dear one; in their own land they could have wood out of the forest, for cutting down and bringing home; but now they were forced to give a large price for it.

Gill: Lam 5:5 - -- Our necks are under persecution,.... A yoke of hard servitude and bondage was put upon their necks, as Jarchi interprets it; which they were forced t...

Our necks are under persecution,.... A yoke of hard servitude and bondage was put upon their necks, as Jarchi interprets it; which they were forced to submit unto: or, "upon our necks we are pursued" s; or, "suffer persecution": which Aben Ezra explains thus, in connection with the Lam 5:4; if we carry water or wood upon our necks, the enemy pursues us; that is, to take it away from us. The Targum relates a fable here, that when Nebuchadnezzar saw the ungodly rulers of the children of Israel, who went empty, he ordered to sow up the books of the law, and make bags or wallets of them, and fill them with the stones on the banks of the Euphrates, and loaded them on their necks:

we labour, and have no rest; night nor day, nor even on sabbath days; obliged to work continually till they were weary; and, when they were, were not allowed time to rest themselves, like their forefathers in Egypt.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 5:1 Although normally used in reference to visual sight, רָאָה (ra’ah) is often used in reference to cognitive process...

NET Notes: Lam 5:2 Heb “our homes [are turned over] to foreigners.”

NET Notes: Lam 5:4 Heb “our wood comes for a price.”

NET Notes: Lam 5:5 For the theological allusion that goes beyond physical rest, see, e.g., Deut 12:10; 25:19; Josh 1:13; 11:23; 2 Sam 7:1, 11; 1 Chron 22:18; 2 Chron 14:...

Geneva Bible: Lam 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: ( a ) consider, and behold our reproach. ( a ) This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people we...

Geneva Bible: Lam 5:4 We have drank our ( b ) water for money; our wood is sold to us. ( b ) Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage.

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Lam 5:1-22 - --1 A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

MHCC: Lam 5:1-16 - --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, ...

Matthew Henry: Lam 5:1-16 - -- Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do s...

Keil-Delitzsch: Lam 5:1-7 - -- Supplication and statement regarding the distress. The quest made in Lam 5:1 refers to the oppression depicted in what follows. The words, "Remember...

Constable: Lam 5:1-22 - --V. The response of the godly (the fifth lament) ch. 5 This poem, like the one in chapter 3, contains verses of o...

Constable: Lam 5:1-18 - --A. A plea for remembrance 5:1-18 5:1 Jeremiah called on Yahweh to remember the calamity that had befallen His people and to consider the reproach in w...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Lamentations (Book Introduction) In the Hebrew Bible these Elegies of Jeremiah, five in number, are placed among the Chetuvim, or "Holy Writings" ("the Psalms," &c., Luk 24:44), betwe...

JFB: Lamentations (Outline) THE SAD CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM, THE HOPE OF RESTORATION, AND THE RETRIBUTION AWAITING IDUMEA FOR JOINING BABYLON AGAINST JUDEA. (Lam. 4:1-22) EPIPHONEM...

TSK: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Lam 5:1, A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

Poole: Lamentations (Book Introduction) LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH THE ARGUMENT This book in Greek, Latin, and English hath its name from the subject matter of it, which is lamentation; s...

Poole: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 5 A humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, Lam 5:1-15 , confessing their sins, Lam 5:16-18 , imploring deliverance, Lam ...

MHCC: Lamentations (Book Introduction) It is evident that Jeremiah was the author of the Lamentations which bear his name. The book was not written till after the destruction of Jerusalem b...

MHCC: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour.

Matthew Henry: Lamentations (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Lamentations of Jeremiah Since what Solomon says, though contrary to the common opinion of the worl...

Matthew Henry: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is the sam...

Constable: Lamentations (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Position The English title of this book comes from the Talmud (...

Constable: Lamentations (Outline) Outline I. The destruction and misery of Jerusalem (the first lament) ch. 1 A. An observer's...

Constable: Lamentations Lamentations Bibliography Archer, Gleason L., Jr. A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Revised ed. Chicago: ...

Haydock: Lamentations (Book Introduction) THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS. INTRODUCTION. In these Jeremias laments in a most pathetic manner the miseries of his people, and the destructio...

Gill: Lamentations (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS This book very properly follows the prophecy of Jeremiah, not only because wrote by him, but because of the subject ma...

Gill: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 5 In this chapter are reckoned up the various calamities and distresses of the Jews in Babylon, which the Lord is desi...

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