Lamentations 5:12 NLT,NIV,ESV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 5:10-13

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:10. The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Our skin is hot like an oven; the feverishness is because of the burning heat of hunger. “Hunger dries up the pores of the skin, so that it becomes like as if it had been exposed to the burning heat of the simoom.”We must not fancy that the several distressing things alluded to befell every one of all classes. We should rather believe that some troubles... 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 5:12

Lam 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Ver. 12. Princes are hanged up by the hand. ] Made to die a dog’s death, and, as some a will have it, by their own hands, αυτοχειρες . The faces of the elders were not honoured. ] “ Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani: Inque suo precio ruga senilis erat, ” - Ovid. But now it was otherwise with the Jewish elders, who haply were not worthy of their years, as we say; like as the princes had done... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 5:12

Lamentations 2:10, Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 39:6, Jeremiah 39:7, Jeremiah 52:10, Jeremiah 52:11, Jeremiah 52:25-Daniel : Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:32 - General Isaiah 3:2 - mighty Isaiah 24:2 - as with the people Lamentations 1:8 - all Lamentations 1:19 - my priests Lamentations 2:6 - the king Lamentations 4:2 - how Ezekiel 19:1 - the princes Zechariah 14:2 - the houses read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:11-13

11-13. Ravished the women In those verses we have individualizing illustrations of the unhappy lot of the people. The women are dishonoured, (literally, humbled;) princes are put to death and their dead bodies hanged up by their hand to expose them to public contumely. The… elders were not honoured An utter violation of all that is most sacred in oriental life; and young men and children are put to the most servile work, literally, they bear the mill and fall under the wood. read more