Lamentations 4:11 NIV

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 4:11

The Lord hath accomplished his fury ,.... Which rose up in his mind, and which he purposed in himself to bring upon the sinful people of the Jews: he hath poured out his fierce anger ; the vials of his wrath in great abundance, even all he meant to pour out upon them: and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof : not in the strong hold of Zion only, but in the whole city of Jerusalem, which was set on fire by the Chaldeans, as instruments, according... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 4:11

Verse 11 He at length concludes that nothing was wanting to complete the extreme vengeance of God; for had the Jews been chastised in an ordinary way, they would have still extenuated their sins, as we know that they were not easily led to repentance. Hence the Prophet, to shew that their offenses had not been slight, but that they had been extremely wicked before God, says that the whole of God’s wrath had been executed: Jehovah has completed his wrath The expression is indeed harsh to Latin... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:11

Hath accomplished means here, not "hath finished," but "hath poured out in full measure," as in the song of Moses Jehovah declares that he will "spend his arrows upon them"—the Hebrew verb is the same as here ( Deuteronomy 32:23 ). To show the completeness of Zion's ruin it is compared to a fire which hath devoured the (very) foundations thereof. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 4:10-11

Lamentations 4:10-11. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children The affection of a mother toward her children is the strongest of all natural affections, and yet the famine hath forced that tender sex to divest themselves of it, and to boil and eat their own children. Thus was the prophecy of Moses, Deuteronomy 28:53; Deuteronomy 28:57, most awfully fulfilled; where see the notes, and on chap. Lamentations 2:20. The Lord hath accomplished his fury, &c. God’s anger... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 4:1-22

Corrupt leaders disgraced (4:1-22)Jerusalem’s former glory is contrasted with her present ruin. The once glorious temple, now defiled and shattered, is symbolic of the once glorious people now shamed and broken. Jerusalem’s dead lie in the streets like pieces of broken pottery (4:1-2). The writer recalls again the scene of horror during the siege. Wild beasts provide food for their young, but in Jerusalem mothers are unable to provide food for their children. Rich nobles die on the streets like... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 4:11

The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . kindled a fire. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:22 ). App-92 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 4:11

THE DIVINE EXPLANATION OF WHY GOD DESTROYED THEM"Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath,he hath poured out his fierce anger;And he hath kindled afire in Zion,which hath devoured the foundations thereof.The kings of the earth believed not,neither all the inhabitants of the world,That the adversary and the enemywould enter into the gates of Jerusalem.It is because of the sins of her prophets,and the iniquities of her priests,That have shed the blood of the justin the midst of her.They wander as... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 4:11

11. fire . . . devoured . . . foundations— (Deuteronomy 32:22; Jeremiah 21:14). A most rare event. Fire usually consumes only the surface; but this reached even to the foundation, cutting off all hope of restoration. Lamed. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 4:1-11

A. Conditions during the siege 4:1-11This section of the poem consists of two parallel parts (Lamentations 4:1-11). The Judahites had become despised (Lamentations 4:1-2; Lamentations 4:7-8), and both children and adults (everyone) suffered (Lamentations 4:3-5; Lamentations 4:9-10). This calamity was the result of Yahweh’s punishment for sin (Lamentations 4:6; Lamentations 4:11). read more