Lamentations 2:14-3:18

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 2:1-22

In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its material and spiritual aspects. Habitations of Jacob are destroyed, princes are profaned, the people are slain. Such are the material judgments. The place of worship is destroyed, the solemn assemblies are forgotten, the sanctuary is abhorred, king, princes, prophets, and people are degraded. After... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 2:14

PROPHESIERS OF SMOOTH THINGS‘Thy prophets have seen visions … of vanity … and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to bring again thy captivity.’ Lamentations 2:14 (R.V.) I. This lament of Jeremiah over his city might be repeated still.—To ministers of religion, to teachers, and to all who are eager to save their friends from the downward path, these words are abundantly applicable. Too often we ‘see visions of vanity,’ and do not deal faithfully with the question of sin that lies at the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:13-17

The Prophet Addresses Jerusalem Recognising That That Her Unique State Is Such That He Can Offer No Comfort Because All Is Against Her (Lamentations 2:13-17 ). The prophet sees the people of Jerusalem as being in a state never before experienced and as being unhealable. This is because their prophets are offering them foolishness, passers-by are looking at, and exclaiming in amazement at, what has happened to them, and their enemies are gloating over them, viewing what has happened to them as... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 2:1-22

Lamentations 2. The Second Lament.— This differs from the first in its contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same, i.e. there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first word of the verse, or stanza, begins with the Heb. A, B, C, etc., and each stanza has three lines, of five accents each. We saw that in Lamentations 1 the singer’ s wail for Zion filled half the song, and her own cries the second half; but this second Lament is all taken up with God. In Lamentations... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 2:14

Not the Lord’s prophets in thee, but those prophets to whom you chose rather to hearken, and whom you believed rather than me and others sent by God to reveal his will unto you, came and told you idle and vain stories, that those who were carried into captivity should after two years return, &c. And by telling you such smooth and pleasant things, tickled your humours instead of discovering your sins, which were bringing these judgments upon you; whereas they ought to have dealt freely and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 2:14

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (נ) Lamentations 2:14. The Book of Jeremiah contains ample evidence as to who those miserable comforters were. It shows that, during the period just preceding the overthrow of Judæa, there were a number of persons who were accustomed glibly to say, The burden of Jehovah, but who were mere pretenders to divine visions, who gave chaff and not wheat. The reason lay in the character of the people, that formed its own instruments in politics and religion. If a people prefer to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Lamentations 2:1-22

Chapter 2The second lamentation:How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and he has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. He has cut off in... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

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 2:14

Lamentations 2:14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee.Prophetic fidelityThe crying fault of the prophets is their reluctance to preach to people of their sins. Their mission distinctly involves the duty of doing so. They should not shun to declare the whole counsel of God. It is not within the province of the ambassador to make selections from among the despatches with which he has been entrusted in order to suit his own convenience. One of the gravest possible omissions is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 2:14

Lam 2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. Ver. 14. Thy prophets. ] Thine, and not mine; for thou art miserable by thine own election, accessary to thine own ruin. Have seen vain and foolish things for thee. ] Visions of vanity, sapless and savourless stuff; the fruit, or rather froth, of their own fancies. Jer 23:9-14 And they have... read more

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