Lamentations 1:1-22,Jeremiah 39:11-40:6,Jeremiah 40:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:19

I desired help of my allies and confederates who courted my friendship and alliance in any prosperity, but they failed mine expectation, none of them either would or could succour me. My misery was such through the famine, that not only my common people, but those of the best rank in the city, magistrates and priests, fainted as they went along the street seeking bread to satisfy their hunger. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:20

The petition is of the same nature as before, a petition for mercy, as the product of that pity and compassion which extreme misery begets in good souls, (and is ascribed unto God, though found in him in a much more perfect degree, Psalms 78:38; Psalms 86:15; Psalms 111:4) through the eyes affecting the heart. The argument the prophet useth is drawn from the misery this people was now in, which he expresseth metaphorically, telling us their bowels were troubled, their heart turned, signifying... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:21

The nations contiguous to me, Egypt, &c., those that before courted me, as pretended friends, have been no strangers to my bitter afflictions, that have brought forth sighs from me; but there is none of them can or will comfort me, but give me over as in a desperate case. The Edomites, Obadiah 1:0, &c., and Moabites, and other heathen nations, with whom I have had hostility, they are glad at the great misery that hath befallen me. But thou hast declared thy pleasure for their... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:22

This verse is another prophetical curse or imprecation, several of which we meet with in holy writ, Psalms 109:6-9; Psalms 137:8; Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 18:23, and in many other texts; which would incline us to think that our Saviour’s precept, Matthew 5:44, to pray for those that persecute us, backed by his own example, Luke 23:34, and Stephen’s; Acts 7:60, is either to be interpreted of praying for the forgiveness of their sins, (we ought to desire the eternal condemnation of none,) or to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:1-2

EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Lamentations 1:1-2 present the city as she is in sharp contrast with what she was, and as an object of deep distress, on account of her sins and their penalties. The verses have a pictorial illustration in the medal struck by the Roman Emperor Titus in commemoration of the capture of Jerusalem (A.D. 71).(א) Lamentations 1:1. How, not in interrogation, but in surprise and pain. This particle is unnecessarily inserted twice in the Authorised Version. It is not again employed in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:3

EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(ג) Lamentations 1:3. Judah, the population of the whole territory, with that of Jerusalem, is taken into exile, a subjugated, impoverished remnant being left. From affliction, the same expression occurs in Exodus 3:17 and Psalms 108:4, and from much servitude, not, as might seem intimated by the Authorised Version and Revised Version, that the Jews were led into captivity because of the manumitted Hebrew servants being again subjected to bondage by their richer brethren... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:4

EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(ד) Lamentations 1:4 introduces another view personifying the religious condition: not the banished people, not the fallen city, but the dwelling-place of the Holy One of Israel is forsaken and overthrown. The ways of Zion, not the streets in Jerusalem leading up to the Temple, but the roads from all quarters of the land, which found their termini in the Holy hill, are mournful, for they are entirely deserted; being without those who go to a solemn assembly, none come to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:5-7

EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(ה) Lamentations 1:5. Her adversaries are become the head, as was threatened if unfaithful to the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:44); her enemies prosper, are in peace, and rest secure, knowing that all resistance is over, so completely has she been crushed. This was brought about not by their might, but because Jehovah has afflicted her for the greatness of her transgressions; and the sufferings befall the most innocent also; her young children have gone captives, the most ominous of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:8-11

EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(ח) Lamentations 1:8. Jerusalem has sinned a sin, has broken the law of her God with determinate will, and bears the natural penalty; therefore she is become as an unclean one; not as one who has been removed (Authorised Version) as a captive from her native place, but as one set aside because of impurity. All who honoured her despise her, for they see her nakedness; her evil is laid bare; the very peoples who had respected her, and who had far less knowledge of what was right... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:12-17

EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Lamentations 1:12-22. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persistent sin in sight of her righteous Lord, who will deal out justice to all transgressors, 17–22.(ל) Lamentations 1:12. The curtness of the opening Hebrew phrase causes doubt as to its proper explanation. Hence by some it is taken as an address to the wayfarers, and is paraphrased in words like, “I... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:22

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:1-2

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:5-7

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:8-11

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 1:12-17

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