Lamentations 5:12 NLT,NIV,ESV

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 5:1-22

Sin's Garden Lamentations 5:0 If we would work our way up to this text, it will be through a very dreary course of reflection. Probably there is nothing like this chapter in all the elegies of the world. For what is there here more than elegy? There is a death deeper than death. The blank verse is noble, but the moral sentiment is horrible. Let us not deceive ourselves by blank verse. We do not know anything finer than these lines, or many of them, regarded simply as poetry; but when we look... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 5:6-18

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. Princes are hanged up by their... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Lamentations 5:12

Hand. Thus Leonidas was treated, after his head was cut off, by Xerxes. (Herodotus vii. 238.) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:1-16

1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly. Though our sins and God's just displeasure cause our sufferings, we may hope in his... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Lamentations 5:1-16

Description of the Present Misery v. 1. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us, the evils which had befallen the Lord's congregation in the ruin of the entire nation; consider and behold our reproach, turning to their pitiable condition with merciful attention. The misery of Jerusalem and Judah, the home of the true Church, is now depicted. v. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, since the invading Chaldeans had taken possession of the entire land. v. 3. We are... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Lamentations 5:1-22

Lamentations 5:0Distress And Hope Of The Prisoners And Fugitives: [expressed In The Form Of A Prayer Or, E. V., A Pitiful Complaint Of Zion In Prayer Unto God.—W. H. H.]Lamentations 5:1. Remember, Jehovah, what has come upon us!Look down and see our reproach.Lamentations 5:2. Our inheritance has fallen to strangers,Our houses to aliens.Lamentations 5:3. We have become orphans, without father,Our mothers—as widows.Lamentations 5:4. Our water we have drunk for money,Our wood comes for a... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 5:1-22

The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction of all classes of the people-the women, the maidens, the princes, the elders, the young men, the children, and of the consequently prevalent sorrow, recognizing that all this was the result of sin. Then, in a last brief and yet forceful word, he prayed Jehovah to turn the people unto Himself. This... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged up by their hand, The faces of elders were not honoured. The cruelty of conquerors was well known. The ‘princes’ may well have been dead, for the display of the dead bodies of important people was a regular practise (compare Saul and his princely sons in 1 Samuel 31:10; 1 Samuel 31:12). We know from the ancient records that it was certainly an Assyrian practise. The idea was to shame the leadership and frighten people into submission. But it would not be unknown for men to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:1-22

Lamentations 5. A Prayer.— This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, “ we.” It may be called a hexameter poem, having six and not five beats in each of its twenty-two lines; it keeps, however, to this alphabetical number of lines, although it is not an alphabetic acrostic. Possibly, the composer intended to think out later other initial words for his lines, and thus to make... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 5:12

Most probably by the enemies’ hands, though some would have it by their hands, intimating a more sharp and lingering death. Hanging was an ancient way in the Eastern countries of putting malefactors to death, Genesis 40:19. read more