Lamentations 2:8-9 BSB

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:9

The prophetic office suspended. There is something of a climax about this statement that the prophets find no vision from Jehovah. Jeremiah has already spoken of God destroying the outward resources and defences of Jerusalem. Next, he mentions the exile of the king and the chief men, and then, as if to hint that it was a still greater calamity, he tells us how the prophet had no longer anything to see or to say. He did well to magnify his own office; for no office could be more important... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:8

A line - Compare Isaiah 34:11. The destruction is systematic and thorough. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:9

Her gates are sunk into the ground - So completely destroyed, that one might suppose they had been swallowed up in an abyss.Her king - The prophet’s lamentation, occupied before chiefly with the buildings of the city and temple, now turns to the people, beginning with their temporal rulers.The law is no more - The Jewish Law, the Torah, came to an end when it no longer had a local habitation. Its enactments were essentially those not of a universal religion, but of a national religion, and the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 2:8-9

Lamentations 2:8-9. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of Zion The word wall is here to be taken in a metaphorical sense, for the strength and security of the city. He hath stretched out a line, &c. Called emphatically, Isaiah 34:11, קו תהו , the line of confusion or devastation, being designed to mark out the extent of what was to be pulled down. For the instruments designed for building are in some places applied to destroying, because men sometimes mark out those... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:1-22

Sufferings sent by God (2:1-22)In this poem the main theme is that the calamity that has befallen Judah has been the work of God. He has humbled the exalted nation; he has turned her glory into darkness (2:1). City and field, temple and fortress have been destroyed by him. They expected God to be the defender of his people, but he has been the attacker. Far from showing pity towards them, he has been angry with them (2-5).God has destroyed the temple and left it looking like an old broken-down... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 2:8

destroying = swallowing up. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 2:9

ground = earth. her king, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:36 ). App-92 . Gentiles = nations. the law is no more: i.e. is no longer known and obeyed. Compare Nehemiah 13:1 , and Esd Lam 14:20 , Lam 14:21 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:8

8. stretched . . . a line—The Easterns used a measuring-line not merely in building, but in destroying edifices (2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 34:11); implying here the unsparing rigidness with which He would exact punishment. Teth. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:9

9. Her gates cannot oppose the entrance of the foe into the city, for they are sunk under a mass of rubbish and earth. broken . . . bars— ( :-). her king . . . among . . . Gentiles— (Deuteronomy 28:36). law . . . no more— (Deuteronomy 28:36- :). The civil and religious laws were one under the theocracy. "All the legal ordinances (prophetical as well as priestly) of the theocracy, are no more" (Psalms 74:9; Ezekiel 7:26). Jod. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 2:1-10

A. God’s anger 2:1-10"There are about forty descriptions of divine judgment, which fell upon every aspect of the Jews’ life: home, religion, society, physical, mental and spiritual. Some of the blackest phrases of the book appear here . . ." [Note: Irving L. Jensen, Jeremiah and Lamentations, p. 132.] read more