Lamentations 1:1-16
city <05892> [How doth.]
The LXX. have the following words as an introduction: "And it came to pass after Israel had been carried captive, and Jerusalem was become desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said."
sits <03427> [sit.]
all .... prominent <07227> [full.]
widow <0490> [as a.]
all .... prominent <07227> [great.]
widow ............ forced laborer <0490 04522> [how is.]
weeps bitterly <01058> [weepeth.]
lovers <0157> [among.]
comfort <05162> [none.]
friends <07453> [all her friends.]
departed into exile <01540> [gone.]
harsh oppression <05656 07230> [because of great servitude. Heb. for the greatness of servitude. she.]
pursued <07291> [all.]
roads <01870> [ways.]
gates <08179> [all her gates.]
priests <03548> [her priests.]
foes ............................ enemy <06862> [adversaries.]
Lord ....... many <03068 07230> [for.]
children <05768> [her children.]
Daughter <01323> [from.]
splendor <01926> [all.]
leaders <08269> [her princes.]
deer <0354> [harts.]
remembers <02142> [remembered.]
treasures <04262> [all her.]
treasures <04262> [pleasant. or, desirable.]
enemy's ............ enemies <06862> [the adversaries.]
committed terrible <02399> [hath.]
object of scorn <05206> [removed. Heb. become a removing, or wandering.]
admired <03513> [all.]
seen <07200> [they.]
groans <0584> [she sigheth.]
menstrual flow ... soiled <02932> [filthiness.]
consider <02142> [she remembereth.]
demise <03381> [came.]
comfort <05162> [she had.]
Look <07200> [behold.]
enemy <0341> [for.]
Yod <06566> [spread.]
valuables <04261> [pleasant. or, desirable.]
watched <07200> [seen.]
commanded <06680> [whom.]
searched for <01245> [seek.]
stay alive <05315 07725> [relieve the soul. Heb. make the soul to come again.]
Look <07200> [see.]
pass by <05674> [Is it nothing. or, It is nothing. pass by. Heb. pass by the way. if.]
The church in distress here magnifies her affliction; and yet no more than there was cause for her groaning was not heavier than her strokes. She appeals to all spectators--see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. This might truly be said of the griefs which were suffered in Jerusalem of old; but Christians are apt to apply these words too sensibly and sensitively to themselves, when they are in trouble, and sometimes more than there is reasonable cause to warrant. All men feel most from their own burden, and cannot be persuaded to reconcile themselves to it; how often do thy cry out in the words we are illustrating! whereas, if their troubles were to be thrown into a common stock with those of others, and then an equal dividend made, share and share alike, rather than approve such an arrangement, each would be ready to say, "Pray give me my own again."--Henry.
<04791> [above.]
spread out <06566> [he hath spread.]
turn <07725> [he hath turned.]
<08074> [desolate.]
yoke <05923> [yoke.]
<05414> [delivered.]
rounded up ........................... stomped <05541 01869> [trodden.]
shatter <07665> [crush.]
virgin <01330> [the virgin, etc. or, the winepress of the virgin, etc.]
<01660> [as in.]
weep <01058> [I weep.]
encourage <07725> [relieve. Heb. bring back.]
children <01121> [my children.]
