Lamentations 2:14-3:18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 2:14

prophets, &c. Compare Ezekiel 12:24 ; Ezekiel 13:1-16 , Ezekiel 13:23 ; Ezekiel 21:29 ; Ezekiel 22:28 . turn away thy captivity = cause thy captives to return. See note on Deuteronomy 30:3 . burdens = oracles. causes of banishment. Here, the Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6 , is translated. Hebrew = expulsions, which is put for the effect of listening to those who brought about the expulsion (Jeremiah 2:8 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Jeremiah 14:14 ; Jeremiah 23:16 ). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 2:14

Lamentations 2:14. False burdens— Burdens of vanity—false prophesies. See Isaiah 13:1. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:14

14. Thy prophets—not God's (Jeremiah 23:26). vain . . . for thee—to gratify thy appetite, not for truth, but for false things. not discovered thine iniquity—in opposition to God's command to the true prophets (Isaiah 58:1). Literally, "They have not taken off (the veil) which was on thine iniquity, so as to set it before thee." burdens—Their prophecies were soothing and flattering; but the result of them was heavy calamities to the people, worse than even what the prophecies of Jeremiah, which... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 2:11-19

B. Jeremiah’s grief 2:11-19This section contains five pictures of Jerusalem’s condition. [Note: Dyer, "Lamentations," pp. 1215-16.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 2:14

The false prophets had misled the people (cf. Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 16:19). They had not told them the truth that would have led them to return to God and spared them from captivity. Jerusalem was a place of perverted leadership. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:1-22

Zion’s Sorrows due to Jehovah’s AngerIn this second dirge, the cause of Zion’s woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off. Zion’s miseries are the judgments of God, which have been sent because of Judah’s sins. In structure the poem is an acrostic, each v. being of triple character, as in Lamentations 1. The prophet speaks.1-10. The agonies caused by Adonai’s anger.1. The beauty of Israel] the Temple (Isaiah 64:11), or possibly the heroes of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 2:14

(14) Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things.—The words are eminently characteristic of Jeremiah, whose whole life had been spent in conflict with the false prophets (Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 5:13; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:10; Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 28:9, and elsewhere), who spoke smooth things, and prophesied deceit. They did not call men to repent of their iniquity.False burdens.—The noun is used, as in Jeremiah 23:33, with a touch of irony, as being that in which the false prophets... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Lamentations 2:1-22

True Devotion Lamentations 2:19 Where there is love there is true devotion. There is true devotion when the object of love is God. I. False devotion. People are apt to deceive themselves and suppose themselves to be devout when they are nothing of the sort. One is given to much frequenting of church, yet her heart all the while is full of rancour against a neighbour. Another mortifies and denies himself food and sleep, but takes no little pride in his austerities, and flatters himself he is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:10-17

THE CRY OF THE CHILDRENLamentations 2:10-17PASSION and poetry, when they fire the imagination, do more than personify individual material things. By fusing the separate objects in the crucible of a common emotion which in some way appertains to them all, they personify this grand unity, and so lift their theme into the region of the sublime. Thus while in his second elegy the author of the Lamentations first dwells on the desolation of inanimate objects, -the temple, fortresses, country... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:14

PROPHETS WITHOUT A VISIONLamentations 2:9; Lamentations 2:14IN deploring the losses suffered by the daughter of Zion the elegist bewails the failure of her prophets to obtain a vision from Jehovah. His language implies that these men were still lingering among the ruins of the city. Apparently they had not been considered by the invaders of sufficient importance to require transportation with Zedekiah and the princes. Thus they were within reach of inquirers, and doubtless they were more than... read more

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