Lamentations 5:16 - The Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 5:16 - Exposition

The crown is fallen, etc.; rather, the crown of our head is fallen. The Jewish people is compared to a rich man at a banquet, crowned with a diadem (comp. Isaiah 28:1 ). Jeremiah has a similar phrase in his prophecies ( Jeremiah 13:18 ). It evidently expresses figuratively the prosperity and honour formerly enjoyed by the now vanquished people.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Lamentations 5:16 - Exposition

Lamentations 5:16 - Exposition

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