Lamentations 1:1--2:22
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.]
spread <06566> [spreadeth.]
comfort <05162> [none.]
decree <06680> [commanded.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
<03068> [Lord.]
rebelled <04784> [for I.]
commands <06310> [commandment. Heb. mouth.]
listen <08085> [hear.]
young women <01330> [my virgins.]
lovers <0157> [for.]
priests <03548> [my priests.]
Look <07200> [Behold.]
stomach <04578> [my bowels.]
me ..... terribly rebellious <06887 04784> [for.]
street <02351> [abroad.]
heard .... groan .............. heard <08085 0584> [have heard that.]
glad <07797> [they are.]
Bring about <0935> [thou wilt.]
day <03117> [the day.]
promised <07121> [called. or, proclaimed. they shall.]
wickedness <07451> [all their.]
heart <03820> [my heart.]
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.]
