E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 4:5
embrace. Compare Job 24:8 . read more
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E.W. Bullinger
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 4:5
Lamentations 4:5. They that did feed delicately, &c.— See the note on 1Sa 2:8 where it has been observed that it was usual in the east to burn dried dung, and consequently to lay up heaps of it for use in their cottages. The author of the Observations thinks that this will serve to explain the expression in this verse of embracing dunghills. "This taking refuge in dunghills (says he) is not mentioned in European descriptions of the horrors of war; but if they in the east burned dung... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 4:5
5. delicately—on dainties. are desolate—or, "perish." in scarlet embrace dunghills—Instead of the scarlet couches on which the grandees were nursed, they must lie on dunghills. embrace—They who once shrank sensitively from any soil, gladly cling close to heaps of filth as their only resting-place. Compare "embrace the rock" (Job 24:8). Vau. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 4:1-6
1. The first description of siege conditions 4:1-6 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 4:1-11
A. Conditions during the siege 4:1-11This section of the poem consists of two parallel parts (Lamentations 4:1-11). The Judahites had become despised (Lamentations 4:1-2; Lamentations 4:7-8), and both children and adults (everyone) suffered (Lamentations 4:3-5; Lamentations 4:9-10). This calamity was the result of Yahweh’s punishment for sin (Lamentations 4:6; Lamentations 4:11). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 4:5
The rich people who were accustomed to eating delicacies had to try to survive by finding anything at all to eat in the streets. The royal and wealthy among the people resorted to ash heaps, probably because they were sick (cf. Job 2:8). read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 4:1-22
Zion’s former Glory contrasted with her present HumiliationIn this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom. In structure, each alphabetic v. is composed of two rather than of three sub-divisions, the ideas and phrases balancing as in ordinary Hebrew poetry. This is considered the finest poetry of the book. The mourner speaks throughout.1-10. The terrible distress of the people and nobles.1. How is the gold... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 4:5
(5) They that were brought up . . .—Literally, that were carried (as children are carried). “Scarlet” as in 2 Samuel 1:24, stands for the shawls or garments of the rich, dyed, as they were, in the Tyrian purple or crimson. Those that had been once wrapped in such shawls now threw themselves, “embracing” them as their only refuge, on dunghills. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Lamentations 4:1-12
CONTRASTSLamentations 4:1-12IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of twenty-two verses arranged in the order of the Hebrew alphabet. In it we meet with the same curious transposition of two letters that is found in the second and third elegies; it has also the peculiar metre of Hebrew elegaic poetry-the very lengthy line, broken into two unequal parts. But, like the first and... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 4:1-22
Corrupt leaders disgraced (4:1-22)Jerusalem’s former glory is contrasted with her present ruin. The once glorious temple, now defiled and shattered, is symbolic of the once glorious people now shamed and broken. Jerusalem’s dead lie in the streets like pieces of broken pottery (4:1-2). The writer recalls again the scene of horror during the siege. Wild beasts provide food for their young, but in Jerusalem mothers are unable to provide food for their children. Rich nobles die on the streets like... read more