Bible Commentary

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us]. 17. The expectation that Egypt or some other nation might come to the rescue, was cherished throughout the year and a half of the siege, and here is set … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:17”

The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders. 16. hath divided them ] hath scattered them (among the nations). they ] men, as in the previous v. elders ] with LXX read prophets, which is more … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:16”

They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there]. 15. Those who met these blood-stained priests and prophets in the street abhorred them, and warned them off with the cry which the leper was … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:15”

They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 14. They ] these prophets and priests. wander, etc.] in perplexity and helplessness, stamped with the mark of Cain. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges They have wandered – Gods … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:14”

For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 13. the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests ] Cp. Jer 5:31; Jer 6:13; Jer 8:10; Jer 23:11 f. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:13”

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. 12. all the inhabitants of the world ] an ordinary form of Eastern hyperbole, suggesting to their minds only the same notion as our every … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:12”

The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 11. hath kindled a fire ] metaphorical, as in Lam 1:13, Lam 2:3. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges An unusual fire, which burns up not … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:11”

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 10. Cp. ch. Lam 2:20, and Jer 19:9. pitiful ] (hitherto) compassionate. For this meaning, as opposed to its modern sense, pitiable, cp. Latimer, Sermons, p. 391. “Because I speak here … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:10”

[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field. 9. The two modes of death experienced in the siege are contrasted. pine away ] lit. as mg. flow away. stricken through ] See on … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:9”

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 8. blacker than a coal ] lit. as mg. darker than blackness. Their skin cleaveth to their bones ] Cp. Job 19:20. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Lamentations 4:8”