Lamentations 1:1--4:22
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.]
man <01397> [the man.]
wrath <05678> [his wrath.]
That is, the wrath of God.
<03212> [brought.]
mortal <01320> [My flesh.]
broken <07665> [he hath.]
He ... besieged <01129> [builded.]
bitter <07219> [gall.]
deepest darkness <04285> [in dark.]
walled <01443> [hedged.]
chains <05178> [made.]
path <05410> [made.]
bear <01677> [unto.]
hidden <04565> [in secret.]
torn ... to pieces <06582> [pulled.]
made <07760> [he hath made.]
drew <01869> [bent.]
arrows <01121> [arrows. Heb. sons.]
fill <07646> [filled.]
bitter herbs <04844> [bitterness. Heb. bitternesses.]
ground <01638> [broken.]
gravel <02687> [gravel.]
ground ....... trampled <01638 03728> [he hath.]
trampled ..... dust <0665 03728> [covered me with ashes. or, rolled me in the ashes.]
deprived <02186> [thou.]
forgotten <05382> [I forgat.]
happiness is <02896> [prosperity. Heb. good.]
Remember <02142> [Remembering. or, Remember.]
bitter poison <03939 07219> [the.]
I continually think <02142> [hath.]
depressed <07743> [humbled. Heb. bowed.]
call ... mind <03820 07725> [recall to my mind. Heb. make to return to my heart.]
hope <03176> [therefore.]
Lord's <03068> [of.]
compassions <07356> [because.]
fresh <02319> [new.]
abundant <07227> [great.]
portion <02506> [my portion.]
hope <03176> [therefore.]
good <02896> [good.]
those <05315> [to.]
good <02896> [good.]
<03175> [hope.]
patiently <01748> [quietly.]
bear <05375> [bear.]
Let ... bury <05414> [putteth.]
is <03426> [if.]
cheek <03895> [his.]
fill <07646> [filled.]
afflict <06031> [afflict.]
predisposed <03820> [willingly. Heb. from his heart.]
crush <01792> [crush.]
prisoners <0615> [all.]
<05186> [turn.]
Most <05945> [the most High. or, a superior.]
Lord <0136> [the Lord.]
approve <07200> [approveth. Heb. seeth.]
<0559> [saith.]
living <02416> [doth.]
complain <0596> [complain. or, murmur. a man.]
Nun .... carefully <02664> [search.]
return <07725> [turn.]
lift <05375> [lift.]
hands <03709> [with.]
<06586> [transgressed.]
forgiven <05545> [thou.]
shrouded <05526> [covered.]
pursued <07291> [persecuted.]
killed <02026> [thou hast slain.]
shrouded <05526> [covered.]
prayer <08605> [that.]
scum <05501> [as.]
<06475> [have.]
Panic <06343> [Fear.]
devastation <07612> [desolation.]
stop <01820> [and.]
eyes <05869> [eye.]
<05315> [mine heart. Heb. my soul. because of all. or, more than all. the daughters.]
Tsade ........ hunted ... down <06679> [chased.]
no good reason .... hunted <02600> [without.]
shut <06789> [cut.]
threw <03034> [and.]
waters <04325> [Waters.]
thought <0559> [I said.]
heard <08085> [hast.]
close <05956> [hide.]
near <07126> [drewest.]
said <0559> [thou saidst.]
Resh <07378> [thou hast pleaded.]
redeemed <01350> [thou hast redeemed.]
seen <07200> [thou hast.]
pronounce <08199> [judge.]
conspire <08193> [lips.]
conspire <01902> [and.]
them <03427> [their sitting.]
mocking songs <04485> [I am.]
distraught <04044> [sorrow. or, obstinacy.]
curse <08381> [thy.]
Pursue <07291> [Persecute.]
heaven <08064> [under.]
heaven <08064> [heavens.]
Gold <02091> [How is the gold.]
Jewels <068> [the stones.]
sons <01121> [sons.]
treated <02803> [how.]
<08577> [sea monsters. or, sea calves. the daughter.]
ostriches <03283> [like.]
tongue <03956> [tongue.]
children <05768> [the young.]
feasted <0398> [that did.]
grew up <0539> [brought.]
amid <02263> [embrace.]
punishment .... people ... that <01323 02403 05771> [punishment of the iniquity of the daughter. or, iniquity of the daughter, etc.]
punishment ...... that <05771 02403> [the punishment.]
consecrated ones <05139> [Nazarites.]
brighter <02141> [purer.]
hair <01508> [their polishing.]
{Gizrathom,} rendered by Dr. Blayney, "their veining," from {gazar,} to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, "Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion."
appearance <08389> [visage.]
darker ... soot <07815 02821> [blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness.]
Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, "duskier than the dawn;" {shachar} signifying "the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished."
recognized <05234> [they.]
skin <05785> [their skin.]
those .......... food <01992 08570> [for.]
waste away <02100> [pine away. Heb. flow out.]
hands <03027> [hands.]
tenderhearted <07362> [pitiful.]
destroyed <07667> [in.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
started <03341> [kindled.]
sins <02403> [the sins.]
poured <08210> [that.]
wander <05128> [have wandered.]
defiled <01351> [they have polluted.]
no ... dares ... touch <03201 03808 05060> [so that men could not touch. or, in that they could not but touch.]
<06440> [anger. or, face. hath.]
longer <03254> [he will.]
show <05375> [they respected.]
eyes <05869> [our eyes.]
nation <01471> [for a.]
For the Egyptians, who were their pretended allies; but who were neither able nor willing to help them.
hunted <06679> [hunt.]
end drew near ........ end <07093 07126> [our end is near.]
pursued <07291> [persecutors.]
eagles <05404> [the eagles.]
The eagle, whose wings are of an extraordinary length, darts with amazing rapidity through the voids of heaven.
chased <01814> [they pursued.]
breath <07307> [breath.]
anointed king <04899> [the anointed.]
caught <03920> [was taken.]
<08055> [be glad.]
land <0776> [the land.]
cup <03563> [the cup.]
clothes <06168> [and shalt.]
punishment ...................... sin <05771> [The punishment of thine iniquity. or, Thine iniquity.]
prolong <03254> [he will no.]
punish <06485> [he will visit.]
exile ............. reveal ... offenses <02403 01540> [discover thy sins. or, carry thee captive for thy sins.]
