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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 4:1-12

The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold, as the most fine gold, so rich and splendid, the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth, has become dim, and is changed, has lost its lustre, lost its value, is not what it was; it has become dross. Alas! what an alteration is here! I. The temple was laid waste, which was the glory of Jerusalem and its... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 4:3

Even the sea monsters draw out the breast ,.... Which some interpret of dragons; others of seals, or sea calves; but it is best to understand it of whales, as the word is rendered in Genesis 1:21 ; and elsewhere: and Bochart F4 Hierozoic. l. 1. c. 7. p. 46. has proved, out of various writers, that these have breasts and milk; but that their breasts, or however their paps, are not manifest, but are hid as in cases, and must be drawn out: and so Jarchi observes that they draw their... read more

John Gill

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

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst ,.... Through want of the milk of the breast, which is both food and drink unto it: the young children ask bread ; of their parents as usual, not knowing how the case was, that there was a famine in the city; these are such as were more grown, were weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts, and lived on other food, and were capable of asking for it: and no man breaketh it unto them : distributes... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 4:3

Even the sea monsters draw out the breast - The whales give suck to their young ones. The word תנין tannin , signifies all large and cruel creatures, whether aquatic or terrestrial; and need not here be restrained to the former sort. My Old MS. Bible translates curiously: Not and the cruel bestis that ben clepid Lamya, and thei nakeden ther tetis, geve ther whelpis souken. Like the ostriches in the wilderness - For her carelessness about her eggs, and her inattention to her young,... read more

Adam Clarke

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

The tongue of the sucking child - See the note on Lamentations 2:12 ; (note). read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 4:3

Verse 3 This verse is harshly explained by many, for they think that the daughter of the people is called cruel, because she acted towards her children as serpents do to their young ones. But this meaning is not suitable, for the word בת, beth, is well known to be feminine. He says that the daughter of the people had come to a savage or cruel one, the latter word is masculine. Then the Prophet seems to mean that the whelps (such is the word) of serpents are more kindly dealt with than the Jews.... read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 4 He says that sucking children were so thirsty, that the tongue was as it were fixed to the palate; and it was a dreadful thing; for mothers would willingly pour forth their own blood to feed their infants. When, therefore, the tongue of a child clave to his mouth, it seemed to be in a manner beyond nature. Among other calamities, then, the Prophet names this, that infants pined away with thirst, and also that children sought bread in vain. He speaks not in the latter instance of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3

The sea monsters; rather, the jackals ( tannin, the Aramaic form of the plural for tannim ) . Cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. So in Job ( Job 39:14-16 ) it is said of the ostrich that she "leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers." The description is literally true, if we add a detail not mentioned by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3-4

The violation of maternal instincts. I. MATERNAL INSTINCTS ARE AMONG THE MOST WIDESPREAD AND DEEP - SEATED ORDINANCES OF PROVIDENCE . 1 . Widespread. They are shared by the lower animals as well as by human beings. The fiercest monsters are careful of their cubs. The most stupid know how to tend and rear their offspring. Roaming jackals of the desert have their lairs where they give suck to their little ones. The varied fields of animal life all bear... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3-4

Natural affection gone. I. NOTE AN UNFAVORABLE CONTRAST WITH THE LOWER CREATION . Everything is to be estimated according to its nature. It matters little what the seamonster here stands for. It is sufficient to know that some fierce destructive creature is thought of. Truly there is a vast difference between the brutes whose very nature it is to destroy in order that they may live, and man who never looks more worthy of his position in the scale of being than when he is... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 4:1-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 4:3

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 4:3

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 4:3

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3-4

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