Lamentations 5:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is ceased, Our dance is turned into mourning. No longer were the inhabitants of Judah joyful at heart. Life under an oppressive regime had removed all the joy out of life. And instead of meeting to dance, the women would gather to mourn. 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 5:15

Either our rejoicing at our solemn festivals, and dancings there, which were usual, as appeareth from many scriptures; or all our joy and dancings, as well at other times as in our solemn festivals. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 5:14-15

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:14. Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social pastimes. The elders ceased from [frequenting] the gate. They had gone thither as to the usual gathering-place; they adjudicated, advised, had general intercourse, and received the marks of respect suggested by the law—Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man (Leviticus 19:32); but that resort was no longer... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Lamentations 5:1-22

Chapter 5Fifth lamentation:Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money ( Lamentations 5:1-4 );We had to pay for a drink of water.and our wood is sold to us. Our necks are under persecution: we labor, we have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 5:1-22

REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85:0. Hosea 3:0. The insults to women and to virgins are named among the first of the final calamities; and the general who allows of this must expect mutiny and revolt from the men who violate laws with impunity. The cruelty to the elders nailed up by their hands, was inflicted also upon Tyre, where eight thousand... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Lamentations 5:12-18

Lamentations 5:12-18The elders have ceased from the gate.The seat of justice overthrown1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them.(1) Reasons.(a) It bringeth in all confusion and disorder.(b) No man can enjoy anything as his own.(c) Every one lieth open to the violence of spoilers, and hath no succour nor redress.(2) Uses.(a) Better have tyrants govern us, than be void of all government.(b) Pray unto God for the government under which we... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 5:15

Lam 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. Ver. 15. The joy of our heart is ceased. ] Heb., Keepeth Sabbath, i.e., is vanished, and that because we made not God’s Sabbath our delight. as Isa 58:13 read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 5:15

our dance: Psalms 30:11, Amos 6:4-Judges :, Amos 8:10, James 4:9, James 4:10 Reciprocal: Exodus 32:19 - the dancing 2 Chronicles 12:2 - because Job 30:31 - General Psalms 107:11 - Because Psalms 137:4 - How shall Isaiah 24:11 - all joy read more

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