John Wesley's Notes on the Bible

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Lamentations 5
An humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, ver. 1-15. Confessing their sins, ver. 16-18. Imploring deliverance, ver. 19-22.

Verse 3.   We - 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.

Verse 4.   Sold - Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea.

Verse 6.   We - The ten tribes were all carried captives into Assyria, and many of the kingdom of Judah fled into Egypt. Giving the hand may signify labouring for them: or, yielding up themselves to their power.

Verse 7.   Their iniquities - The punishment of them.

Verse 9.   The sword - The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.

Verse 13.   Fell - Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them.

Verse 16.   The crown - All our honour, splendour and dignity.

Verse 19.   Thy throne - Altho' for our sins thou sufferest our throne to be cast down, yet thou art the same, thy power is not diminished, nor thy goodness abated.

Verse 21.   Renew - Restore us to our former estate.


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