Lamentations 2:16-17 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:10-22

Justly are these called Lamentations, and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel's roll, Ezek. 2:10. I. Copies of lamentations are here presented and they are painted to the life. 1. The judges and magistrates, who used to appear in robes of state, have laid them aside, or rather are stripped of them, and put on the habit of mourners (Lam. 2:10); the elders now sit no longer in the judgment-seats,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee ,.... Or "widened" F24 פצו "dilatant", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. them; stretched them out as far as they could, to reproach, blaspheme, and insult; or, like gaping beasts, to swallow up and devour: they hiss and gnash their teeth ; hiss like serpents, and gnash their teeth in wrath and fury; all expressing their extreme hatred and abhorrence of the Jews, and the delight they took in their ruin and destruction: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:17

The Lord hath done that which he had devised ,.... It was not so much the Chaldeans that did it, though they ascribed it to themselves; but it was the Lord's doing, and what he had deliberately thought of, purposed and designed within himself; all whose purposes and devices certainly come to pass: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old ; not only by the mouth of Jeremiah, years ago, or in the times of Isaiah, long before him; but even in the days of Moses;... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:16

Verse 16 Here, also, the Prophet introduces enemies as insolently exulting over the miseries of the people. He first says, that they had opened the mouth, even that they might loudly upbraid them; for he is not said to open the mouth who only speaks, but who insolently and freely utters his calumnies. God is, indeed, sometimes said emphatically to open his mouth, when he announces something that deserves special notice; and so Matthew says, that Christ opened his mouth when he spoke of true... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:17

Verse 17 Had the Prophet related only the boastings of enemies, the people would have probably become more hardened in their sorrow. But now, on the other hand, he assumes a different character. After having represented how insolently the enemies conducted themselves, he now says, Jehovah hath done what he had determined; and thus from the taunts of enemies he calls the attention of the people to the judgment of God. For when enemies insult us, we: indeed feel hurt, but afterwards grief in a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:16

Have opened their mouth against thee. As against the innocent sufferer of Psalms 22:1-31 . ( Psalms 22:13 ). Gnash the teeth. In token of rage, as Psalms 35:16 ; Psalms 37:12 . We have seen it (comp. Psalms 35:21 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:16

The triumph of the foe. I. THE TRIUMPH OF THE FOE OVER JERUSALEM . Strangers mock with scorn and derision, enemies vent their rage with hissing, gnashing of teeth, and a spiteful satisfaction that the day they have locked for has come. Why should these cruel feelings be roused against the prostrate city? Her previous condition must have provoked them. 1 . Great prosperity. This excites envy in the less prosperous, and envy soon sours into hatred. Jealous and selfish... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:16-17

On the transposition of the initial letters in these verses, see Introduction. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:10-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:17

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:16-17

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