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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 Jeremiah Ezekiel
Lamentations 1
Jeremiah laments the former excellency and present misery of
Jerusalem for her sin, ver. 1-11. She complains of her grief, ver.
12-17. Confesses God's judgments to be righteous: and prays to
him, ver. 18-22.
Verse 1. A widow - She that had a king, or rather a God, that was an
husband to her, now was forsaken of God, and her king taken
from her.
Verse 3. Because - Because of the servitude and oppression exercised
among them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more
generally; keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when
they ought to be set at liberty. The straits - Those that pursued
them overtook them in places where they could not escape.
Verse 4. She - Persons of all ages and ranks are in bitterness.
Verse 10. Pleasant things - Has laid violent hands on them. The things of
the sanctuary were always pleasant things to those that feared
God.
Verse 11. Bread - Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and
honey, they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given - And gave any
thing for something to satisfy their hunger. Vile - Miserable or
contemptible.
Verse 12. Is it nothing - The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish
church.
Verse 13. Fire - A judgment as consuming, and afflictive as fire.
Verse 14. Is bound - Put upon my neck on account of my transgressions.
Wreathed - My punishments are twisted as cords; I have a
complication of judgments upon me, sword, famine, pestilence,
captivity.
Verse 15. An assembly - God had called an assembly of Chaldeans
against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it. Trodden - God had
trodden upon the Jews as men use to stamp grapes in a wine-
press.
Verse 16. The comforter - God.
Verse 17. Jerusalem - Is become loathsome and filthy.
Verse 19. Deceived - They did not answer my expectation.
Verse 20. Death - By famine and pestilence.
Verse 21. They - The neighbouring nations. Like me - But thou hast
foretold their destruction also, and hast by me proclaimed it: and
thou shalt in that day bring them into as sad a condition as I am in
now.
Chapter 1:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 Jeremiah Ezekiel
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