Lamentations 2:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:10

The silence of the elders. I. THEIR FORMER SPEECH . They are said to keep silence now; this, of course, suggests that silence had not been their former habit. Old men have a peculiar fight to speak, are often expected to speak, and can always plead that years have given them experience and many opportunities of observation, and with respect to these particular elders here it is not difficult to imagine what the topics and the manner of their former speech might be. For instance,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:1

How ... - Or, “How” doth “אדני 'ădonāy cover.” He hath east down etc. By God’s footstool seems to be meant the ark. See Psalms 99:5 note. read more

Albert Barnes

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

Habitations - The dwellings of the shepherds in the pastures Jeremiah 49:19. These are described as swallowed up by an earthquake, while the storm itself throws down the fortified cities of Judah.Polluted - i. e. profaned it, made common or unclean what before was holy. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:3

Since the horn is the symbol of power, the cutting off of every horn means the depriving Israel of all power of resistance. The drawing back of God’s right hand signifies the withdrawal of that special Providence which used to protect the chosen people.And he burned ... - Or, “and” he kindled a fire in Jacob: as the active enemy of “Jacob,” Himself applying the torch. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:4

He stood with his right hand ... - i. e. that right hand so often stretched out to help now grasped a weapon ready for Judah’s destruction.Were pleasant - Or, was “pleasant.” Put full stop after “eye.” Begin the third distich thus:In the tabernacle - (or, tent) of the daughter of Zion. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:5

Literally, אדני 'ădonāy has become “as an enemy.” read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:6

tabernacle - Or, covert Jeremiah 25:38, i. e. such a tent of boughs as was put up at the Feast of Tabernacles. The words mean, “the Lord hath (as) violently destroyed His booth. as a man might tear down a shed in “a garden.”” Compare Isaiah 1:8.His places of the assembly - Or, “His great festivals” (Lamentations 1:15 note). It is the Word rendered “solemn feasts” in the next clause, and rightly joined there with “sabbaths,” the weekly, as the other were the annual festivals. It is no longer... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:7

sanctuary - The holy of holies; “the walls of her palaces” are those of the sacred buildings. 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

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