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
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 4
This chapter is another single alphabet of Lamentations for the destruction of Jerusalem, like those in the first two chapters. I. The prophet here laments the injuries and indignities done to those to whom respect used to be shown, Lam. 4:1, 2. II. He laments the direful effects of the famine to which they were reduced by the siege, Lam. 4:3-10. III. He laments the taking and sacking of Jerusalem and its amazing desolations, Lam. 4:11, 12. IV. He acknowledges that the sins of their leaders... read more