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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:1-9

It is a very sad representation which is here made of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel, of Zion and Jerusalem; but the emphasis in these verses seems to be laid all along upon the hand of God in the calamities which they were groaning under. The grief is not so much that such and such things are done as that God has done them, that he appears angry with them; it is he that chastens them, and chastens them in wrath and in his hot displeasure; he has become their enemy, and fights... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow like an enemy ,.... God sometimes appears as if he was an enemy to his people, when he is not, by his conduct and behaviour; by the dispensations of his providence they take him to be so, as Job did, Job 16:9 ; he bends his bow, or treads it, for the bending or stretching the bow was done by the foot; and as the Targum, "and threw his arrows at me:' he stood with his right hand as an adversary ; with arrows in it, to put into his bow or with his sword drawn, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:5

The Lord was as an enemy ,.... Who formerly was on their side, their God and guardian, their protector and deliverer, but now against them; and a terrible thing it is to have God for an enemy, or even to be as one; this is repeated, as being exceeding distressing, and even intolerable. Mr. Broughton renders it, "the Lord is become a very enemy"; taking "caph" for a note of reality, and not of similitude; he hath swallowed up Israel ; the ten tribes, or the Jewish nation in general; as a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow - he stood with his right hand - This is the attitude of the archer. He first bends his bow; then sets his arrow upon the string; and, lastly, placing his right hand on the lower end of the arrow, in connection with the string, takes his aim, and prepares to let fly. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:4

Verse 4 He employs now another metaphor, that God, who was wont to defend his people, now took up arms against them; for stating a part for the whole, he includes in the bow every other weapon. When, therefore, he says that God had bent his bow, it is the same as though he said that he was fully armed. The bow, then, as we have before seen, means every kind of weapon. He then adds, that his right hand stood as an adversary. Here he more plainly describes what he had before touched upon, even... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:5

Verse 5 These words might seem superfluous, since the Prophet has often repeated, that God was become an enemy to his own people; but we shall hereafter see, that though they were extremely afflicted, they yet did not rightly consider whence their calamity arose. As, then, they had become so stupified by their evils, that they did not turn their eyes to God, they were on this account often urged and stimulated, that they might at length understand by their evils that God was a judge. Now, as it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:4

The beginning of the verse seems slightly out of order. And slew all that were pleasant , etc. The correct rendering is, And slew all that was pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion he poured out his fury like fire. The Authorized Version (following the Targum) seems to have thought that the youth of the population alone was intended. But, though Ewald also adopts this view, it seems to limit unduly the meaning of the poet. By "tent" we should probably understand... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:4-5

The Lord as an enemy. I. THE LORD MAY BECOME TO US AS AN ENEMY . We must not suppose the relations of God to those who forsake him to be purely negative. He cannot simply leave them to their own devices. He is a King who must needs maintain order and restrain and punish rebellion, a Judge who cannot permit law to be trampled underfoot with impunity, a Father who cannot abandon his children, but must chastise them in their wrong doing just because he is so closely related... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:5

Was as an enemy: he hath swallowed, etc. The threefold division of the verse is, unfortunately, concealed in the Authorized Version, owing to the arbitrary stopping. The grouping suggested by the Massoretic text is— "The Lord is become an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed all his strongholds; And hath increased in the daughter of Judah moaning and bemoaning." The change of gender in the second line is easily explicable. In the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:5

Jehovah reckoned as an enemy. I. HOW FAR WAS THERE REALITY UNDER THIS APPEARANCE OF ENMITY ? God might look like an enemy, but it did not therefore follow that he was one. But even if Jehovah behaved himself like an enemy, it must also be asked whether there was not a necessity that he should do so. If Israel had to say, "Jehovah acts as an enemy towards us," Jehovah had to say, "My people act as an enemy towards me." These people had now for a long time been travelling... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:5

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