We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.The sword — The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them. read more
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.Fell — Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them. read more
THE GENERAL DISTRESS, Lamentations 5:1-7. 1. What is come Better, what hath happened to us. This is more fully explained by the term reproach; and this, in turn, by the sad recital which follows. read more
2. Our inheritance… to strangers This has a woful meaning to the Jew. The land was to him the special gift of God, and his occupation of it a visible proof of the faithful covenant of Jehovah. For aliens, then, to gain possession of their inheritance and their houses was violently to annul this covenant, and so to take away their faith as well as their possessions. read more
3. Fatherless Without a father. Many expositors find here a specific meaning, and understand by the term father, king; and others understand by mothers, the cities of Judah. But this is unnecessary, not to say puerile. The meaning simply is: We are desolate and bereaved, like children without parents, or a wife mourning the loss of her husband. read more
4. Our water for money, etc. These are illustrations of the hardships they were experiencing. Such absolute necessities of life could be had by them only on the payment of money. And what greatly enhanced the bitterness of this complaint was, that they had to buy what was rightfully their own. In this not only is there distress and hardship, but a sense of degradation and wrong. read more
5. Our necks are under persecution, etc. More literally, On our necks we are persecuted. That is, our pursuers follow us so closely as to be on our very necks. We labour Rather, are wearied, a necessary consequence of this hot and relentless pursuit. read more
6. We have given the hand Namely, as a sign of submission and subjection, in order to procure bread. read more
7. Our fathers… we have borne their iniquities They sinned, but died before the times were ripe for the punishment of the nation, hence we suffer for their sins. Not that they themselves were innocent, but they suffer not only for their own sins but also for those of their progenitors. read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.Their iniquities — The punishment of them. read more