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Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 1:4

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness." Lam 1:4 This is the description of a religious desolation. Once the roads leading to Zion were thronged with ardent pilgrims, urging onward in a spirit of worship and homage and rapturous love; now not a pilgrim is to be seen near the gates which open upon the holy place. Virgins and... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 1:8

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she removed" Lam 1:8 God does not inflict the punishment without giving the reason. He has no need to explain to men why punishment is awarded, yet he is condescending enough to say that punishment is the counterpart of iniquity. If we want to explain the punishment we have only to look at the sin; the punishment is from above, but the cause is from within: in proportion as a man looks at himself, studies... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 1:12

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger? Lam 1:12 This need not be put as a question, but may be read literally thus "Not to you, ye passers by." Sometimes the expression has been taken as an interjection "Oh, all ye that pass by." Zion does not speak to those who are merely passing on; to them she... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 1:18-19

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls." Lam 1:18-19 Now Zion is turning to a better mind. Here are signs of penitence. Zion acknowledges that her judgment is from... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 1:1

CONTENTS. In twenty-two verses, corresponding to the number of the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, the Prophet mourns the desolations of his people, and his beloved city Jerusalem. He confesseth sin, and acknowledgeth the justice of the divine judgments. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 1:1-7

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 1:8-12

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 1:13-22

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:1

City. David had conquered many. Jerusalem was long considered as the finest city in those parts. --- Tributary. It had been so to the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Chaldeans, 4 Kings xxiv. 1. From this and similar passages, it would seem that the city was still existing: yet in others it appears to have been demolished. Here then the prophet declares what it had been: (Calmet) unless he wrote part after the death of Josias. (Haydock) --- The beholders are astonished at the change and misery of the... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Lamentations 1:2

Night; privately, or without ceasing. --- Friends, who had made a league with Sedecias, chap. xxvii. 3., and xlviii. 26. read more

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