Lam 1:12, 2:13, 4:6, Eze 5:9, Joe 2:2, Amo 3:2, Mat 24:21, Mar 13:19 | TSK | STEP | Is it nothing. or, It is nothing. pass by. Heb. pass bythe way. if. The church in distress here magnifies her affliction; and yet no more than there was cause for her groaning was not heavier than her strokes. She appeals to all spectators--see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. This might truly be said of the griefs which were suffered in Jerusalem of old; but Christians are apt to apply these words too sensibly and sensitively to themselves, when they are in trouble, and sometimes more than there is reasonable cause to warrant. All men feel most from their own burden, and cannot be persuaded to reconcile themselves to it; how often do thy cry out in the words we are illustrating! whereas, if their troubles were to be thrown into a common stock with those of others, and then an equal dividend made, share and share alike, rather than approve such an arrangement, each would be ready to say, "Pray give me my own again."--Henry.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing. or, It is nothing. pass by. Heb. pass bythe way. if. The church in distress here magnifies her affliction; and yet no more than there was cause for her groaning was not heavier than her strokes. She appeals to all spectators--see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. This might truly be said of the griefs which were suffered in Jerusalem of old; but Christians are apt to apply these words too sensibly and sensitively to themselves, when they are in trouble, and sometimes more than there is reasonable cause to warrant. All men feel most from their own burden, and cannot be persuaded to reconcile themselves to it; how often do thy cry out in the words we are illustrating! whereas, if their troubles were to be thrown into a common stock with those of others, and then an equal dividend made, share and share alike, rather than approve such an arrangement, each would be ready to say, "Pray give me my own again."--Henry.

2:13; 4:6-11; Da 9:12; Mt 24:21; Lu 21:22,23; 23:28-31

Lamentations 2:13

shall I take.

1:12; Da 9:12

for.

2Sa 5:20; Ps 60:2; Jer 14:17; Eze 26:3,4

who can.

Jer 8:22; 30:12-15; 51:8,9

Lamentations 4:6

punishment of the iniquity of the daughter. or, iniquity ofthe daughter, etc.

Isa 1:9,10; Eze 16:48-50; Mt 11:23,24; Lu 10:12; 12:47

the punishment.

9; Ge 19:25; Da 9:12; Mt 24:21

Ezekiel 5:9

that which.

La 4:6,9; Da 9:12; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21The sentence here passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, and the manner of expression makes it yet more so: the judgments are various, the threatenings of them varied, reiterated; so that one may well say, Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry?

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness."The quantity of these insects," says a French author,"is incredible to all who have not themselves witnessed their astonishing numbers; the whole earth is covered with them for the space of several leagues. The noise they make in browsing on the trees and herbage may be heard at a great distance, and resembles that of an army in secret. Wherever their myriads spread, the verdure of the country disappears; trees and plants, stripped of their leaves and reduced to their naked boughs and stems, cause the dreary image of winter to succeed in an instant to the rich scenery of spring. When these clouds of locusts take their flight, to surmount any obstacles or to traverse more rapidly a desert soil, the heavens may literally be said to be obscured by them."

10,31; 3:14,15; Ex 20:21; Ps 97:2; Isa 5:30; 8:22; Jer 13:16

Am 5:18-20; Zep 1:14,15; Heb 12:18; Jude 1:13

as.

Am 4:13

a great.

5,11,25; 1:6

there.

1:2,3; Ex 10:6,14; Da 12:1; Mr 13:19

many generations. Heb. generation and generation.

De 32:7; Ps 10:6; *margins