Lamentações de Jeremias 1:16-21 NVIPT

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:18

(18) The Lord is righteous . . .—An echo from Jeremiah 12:1; 2 Chronicles 12:6. Misery does its work, and issues in repentance. The suffering comes from the all-righteous Judge. It is, perhaps, significant that with this beginning of conversion the name “Jehovah” reappears.All people . . .—Better, all peoples. Those addressed are the heathen nations, who are summoned to gaze on the desolate mourners. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:19

(19) I called for.—Better, to. The “lovers,” as in Lamentations 1:2, are the former allies of Judah.My priests and mine elders.—The pressure of the famine of the besieged city is emphasised by the fact that even these, the honoured guides of the people, had died of hunger. On the phrase that follows, see Lamentations 1:11. A conjectural addition, at the end of the verse, “and found not,” is supplied in the LXX and Syriac versions; but rhetorically there is more force in the aposiopesis, the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:20

(20) Behold, O Lord . . .—Deserted by men, the mourner appeals to Jehovah. “Bowels” and “heart” are used almost as synonymous for the deepest emotions of the soul. The word for “troubled,” elsewhere (Psalms 75:8) used of colour, might, perhaps, be better rendered inflamed.At home there is as death.—The “as” seems inserted to give the emphasis of the undefined. It is not death pure and simple that makes each home tremble, but the “plurima mortis imago” (Virg. Aen. ii. 369), the starvation,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:21

(21) They are glad that thou hast done it . . .—Historically the words refer to the conduct of nations like the Edomites, as described in Psalms 137:7.Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called.—Better, proclaimed. By some commentators the first verb is taken as a perfect, “Thou hast brought,” and the “day” is that of vengeance upon Judah. With the rendering of the Authorised version the clause coheres better with that which follows, and the “day” is that of the punishment of the exulting... read more

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 1:17

1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] around him: Jerusalem is {r} as a menstruous woman among them.(r) Who because of her pollution was separate from her husband, Leviticus 15:19 and was abhorred for the time. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Lamentations 1:19

1:19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they {s} sought their food to relieve their souls.(s) That is, they died for hunger. 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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:19

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:20

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:21

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

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

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

Geneva Study Bible - Lamentations 1:17

Geneva Study Bible - Lamentations 1:19

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

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