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William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Lamentations 1:1-22

Civic Apathy (a Sermon for Women) Lamentations 1:12 I. The Home-Side of Patriotism. Is it not a serious matter to find such multitudes in all our large towns and cities who have little or no sense of what it means to belong to a great community, who have little or no idea of the life in common and of the responsibility and duty which all share? There are many around us who do not care anything for the problems of a great city; do not indeed realize that there are any problems at all, except... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:12-22

ZION’S APPEALLamentations 1:12-22IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle of the surrounding nations, and lastly to her God. Already the suffering city has spoken once or twice in brief interruptions of the poet’s descriptions of her miseries, and now she seems to be too impatient to permit herself to be represented any longer even by this friendly advocate; she must come... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Lamentations 1:1-22

CHAPTER 1 Jerusalem’s Great Desolation and the Sorrow of His People The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem’s desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once she was great among the nations, like a princess among provinces, and now she is widowed. Then in the next verse we hear her weeping; she weeps all night long; none is there to comfort her; her friends have turned against her, they have become her enemies. She was disobedient to her Lord, she... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Lamentations 1:12

1:12 [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any {n} sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.(n) Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:1-22

The touching significance of this book lies in the fact that it is the disclosure of the love and sorrow of Jehovah for the very people He is chastening a sorrow wrought by the Spirit in the heart of Jeremiah. Compare Jeremiah 13:7 ; Matthew 23:36-38 ; and Romans 9:1-5 . Scofield Reference Bible As regards its external structure, the composition of the book, both as a whole and in its several parts, is so artistic, that anything like it can hardly be found in any other book of Holy Scriptures.... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 1:12

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger? Lam 1:12 This need not be put as a question, but may be read literally thus "Not to you, ye passers by." Sometimes the expression has been taken as an interjection "Oh, all ye that pass by." Zion does not speak to those who are merely passing on; to them she... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 1:8-12

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:11-12

O. Hebrew of the Masorets, "It is." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Is it nothing to you, all?" &c. (Haydock) --- But the Vulgate is much clearer, and approved by many Protestants, lu being often used as an exclamation, Genesis xvii. 18. (Calmet) --- Vintage. He has plundered all, ver. 22. (Haydock) --- The king took a great deal, and his general the rest, 4 Kings xxiv., and xxv. (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 1:12-22

12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were harder to bear, through the sense of guilt. Sorrow for sin must be great sorrow, and must affect the soul. Here we see the evil of sin, and may take warning to flee from the wrath to come. Whatever may be learned from the sufferings of Jerusalem, far more may be learned from the sufferings of... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Lamentations 1:12-22

The Lament of the City and the Answer of the Lord v. 12. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Will none of those who are witnesses of her misery and shame take the proper notice of her calamity? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger. The greatness of Jerusalem's misery was so unusual that men seeing it were bound to conclude that there was a special hand and work of God in it.... read more

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