Lamentations 2:10 KJV

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 2:1-22

Lamentations 2:1 . How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud. The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope. Lamentations 2:2 . The Lord hath swallowed up all the inhabitants of Jacob. The enemy has come in like a flood, the people have disappeared in the vortex. Lamentations 2:3 . He hath cut off all the horn of Israel. See on Job 15:15. Psalms 112:0. Lamentations 2:7 . They (the Chaldeans) have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Lamentations 2:10

Lamentations 2:10The elders . . . keep silence. Overwhelming judgments1. The wisest of God’s servants are at their wit’s end, or fall into despair, if they be deprived of their hope, in the promise of God’s assistance (Psalms 119:92).2. Bodily exercises do profit to further lamentations in the day of heaviness, but are no part of God’s service in themselves.3. The extremity of God’s judgments do for the time overwhelm God’s dearest children in the greatest measure of grief that can be in this... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:10

Lam 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. Ver. 10. The elders of the daughters of Zion. ] Who sat once aloft passing sentence, and held themselves, haply, too high to be told their duties by a poor prophet. Sit upon the ground. ] After the manner of mourners. And keep silence. ] Who were wont to be the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 2:10

elders: Lamentations 4:5, Lamentations 4:16, Lamentations 5:12, Lamentations 5:14, Job 2:13, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 47:1, Isaiah 47:5 sit: Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend Judea capta. Lamentations 1:1 ... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.The virgins — The whole city is in a mournful posture. read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 2:1-22

The Biblical Illustrator - Lamentations 2:10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 2:10

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 2:10

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