Lamentations 2:10-18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:10

Sit upon the ground - See the note on Lamentations 1:1 . Keep silence - No words can express their sorrows: small griefs are eloquent, great ones dumb. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:11

Swoon in the streets of the city - Through the excess of the famine. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:12

When their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom - When, in endeavoring to draw nourishment from the breasts of their exhausted mothers, they breathed their last in their bosoms! How dreadfully afflicting was this! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:13

What thing shall I take - Or, rather, as Dr. Blayney, "What shall I urge to thee?" How shall I comfort thee? Thy breach is great like the sea - Thou hast a flood of afflictions, a sea of troubles, an ocean of miseries. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:14

They have not discovered thine iniquity - They did not reprove for sin, they flattered them in their transgressions; and instead of turning away thy captivity, by turning thee from thy sins, they have pretended visions of good in thy favor, and false burdens for thy enemies. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:15

The perfection of beauty - This probably only applied to the temple. Jerusalem never was a fine or splendid city; but the temple was most assuredly the most splendid building in the world. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:16

This is the day that we looked for - Jerusalem was the envy of the surrounding nations: they longed for its destruction, and rejoiced when it took place. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:17

The Lord hate done that - This and the sixteenth verse should be interchanged, to follow the order of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet; as the sixteenth has פ phe for its acrostic letter, and the seventeenth has ע ain , which should precede the other in the order of the alphabet. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:18

O wall of the daughter of Zion - ציון בת חומת chomath bath tsiyon , wall of the daughter of Zion. These words are probably those of the passengers, who appear to be affected by the desolations of the land; and they address the people, and urge them to plead with God day and night for their restoration. But what is the meaning of wall of the daughter of Zion? I answer I do not know. It is certainly harsh to say "O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:10

Verse 10 The Prophet here strikingly represents the grievousness of the people’s calamity, when he says, that the elders, as in hopeless despair, were lying on the ground, that they cast dust on their heads, that they were clad in sackcloth, as it was usually done in very grievous sorrow, and that the virgins bent their heads down to the ground. The meaning is, that the elders knew not what to do, and led others. to join them in acts of fruitless and abject lamentation. We indeed know that... read more

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