Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 1:18
People - peoples, pagan nations. read more
Lamentações De Jeremias 1:16-21 Nvipt
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 1:19
I called for ... - Rather, to “my lovers.”While they sought their meat - literally, “for they sought food for themselves to revive their souls.” Complete the sense by adding, “and found none.” read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 1:20
Troubled - Or, inflamed with sorrow.Turned within me - Agitated violently.At home there is as death - i. e. “in the house” there are pale pining forms, wasting with hunger, and presenting the appearance of death. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 1:21
They have heard ... - Or, “They heard that I sigh,” that I have “no comforter.”Thou wilt bring the day ... - literally, thou hast brought “the day thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.” The day of Judah’s punishment was the proof that the nations now triumphing over Jerusalem’s fall would certainly be visited. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 1:13-16
Lamentations 1:13-16. From above hath he sent fire into my bones Calamities as consuming and as afflictive as fire in the bones. He hath spread a net for my feet Hath brought me into a most miserable condition, in which I am so entangled that I cannot extricate myself nor escape from it. Thus the prophet teaches Jerusalem to look beyond the Babylonians, and to see the sin-avenging hand of God in her sufferings. As if he had said, It is God himself that hath sent these evils upon me; he... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 1:17
Lamentations 1:17. Zion spreadeth forth her hands She extendeth her hands as a suppliant praying for relief and consolation. And there is none to comfort her None who can, or are even inclined to do it. The Lord hath commanded, &c. That is, it came to pass by God’s command, that the surrounding nations were the adversaries of Jacob. We meet with a similar form of expression Psalms 68:11, The Lord gave the word, great was the company of those that published it. Jerusalem is as a... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 1:18-19
Lamentations 1:18-19. The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled, &c. He does me no wrong in dealing thus with me, nor can I charge him with any injustice. Observe, reader, whatever the troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon us, we must own that in them he is righteous: we neither know him nor ourselves, if we do not acknowledge this. Jerusalem owns the equity of God’s actions by confessing the iniquity of her own. Hear, I pray you, all people See note on Lamentations 1:12.... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 1:20
Lamentations 1:20. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress Take cognizance of my case, and use such means for my relief as thou pleasest. It is a matter of comfort to us, that the troubles which oppress our spirits are perfectly known to God, and that his eye is continually upon them. Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death Thus was Moses’s prediction, Deuteronomy 32:25, fulfilled, The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 1:21-22
Lamentations 1:21-22. They have heard that I sigh The nations contiguous to me, Egypt and others, that before pretended to be my friends and allies, have been no strangers to my bitter afflictions, which have forced sighs from me; but there is none to comfort me None of them can or will relieve my distress, but abandon me as in a desperate situation. They are glad that thou hast done it They have even expressed gladness at the calamities that have befallen me; and they please themselves... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 1:17
Spreadeth forth her hands - In prayer Exodus 9:29, Exodus 9:33, but Zion entreats in vain. There is no one to comfort her - not God, for He is chastising her, nor man, for all the neighboring nations have become her enemies. See Lamentations 1:2.That his adversaries ... - Rather, that those round about him should be his adversaries; all the neighboring states should regard him with aversion.Jerusalem is ... - i. e. is become an abomination. The words are virtually the same as in Lamentations... read more