Lamentations 4:4-6

tongue.

Ps 22:15; 137:6

the young.

1:11; 2:11,12; De 32:24; Mt 7:9-11

that did.

De 28:54-56; Isa 3:16-26; 24:6-12; 32:9-14; Jer 6:2,3; Am 6:3-7

Lu 7:25; 1Ti 5:6; Re 18:7-9

brought.

2Sa 1:24; Pr 31:21; Lu 16:19

embrace.

Job 24:8; Jer 9:21,22; Lu 15:16

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

Lamentations 5:10

skin.

3:4; 4:8; Job 30:30; Ps 119:83

terrible famine. or, terrors, or storms, of famine.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

wheat.

13,16

millet.{Dochan,} in Arabic, {dokhn,} the {holcus dochna} of Forskal, is a kind of millet, of considerable use as a food; the cultivation of which is described by Browne.

fitches. or, spelt.{Kussemim} is doubtless [zea,] or spelt, as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX. and Theodotion, [olyra.] In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer, to make it last the longer.

three.

5

16; 14:13; Le 26:26; De 28:51-68; Isa 3:1

shalt drink.

16; Isa 5:13; Joh 3:34

cake. a "round" thing.

Ge 18:6

Da 1:8; Ho 9:3,4

Ah.

9:8; 20:49; Jer 1:6

my soul.

Ac 10:14

have I.

Ex 22:31; Le 11:39,40; 17:15

abominable.

Le 19:7; De 14:3; Isa 65:4; 66:17

cow's dung.Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East, as it is in many parts of England, to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure, to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed, as they would be obliged literally to use it, from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel.

15

I will.

5:16; 14:13; Le 26:26; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1

eat.The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure.

10,11; 12:18,19; Ps 60:3; La 1:11; 4:9,10; 5:9

and consume.

24:23; Le 26:39

Ezekiel 5:10-12

the fathers.

Le 26:29; De 28:53-57,64; 2Ki 6:29; Isa 9:20; 49:26; Jer 19:9

La 2:20; 4:10

the whole.

2,12; 6:8; 12:14; 20:23; 22:15; 36:19; Le 26:33; De 4:27; 28:64

De 32:26; Ne 1:8; Ps 44:11; Jer 9:16; 44:12; 50:17; Am 9:9; Zec 2:6

Zec 7:14; Lu 21:24

as I live.

Nu 14:28-35; Ps 95:11; Am 8:7; Heb 6:13

thou hast.

8:5,6,16; 23:28; 44:7; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:12; 2Ch 33:4,7; 36:14

Jer 7:9-11; 32:34

detestable.

7:20; 11:18,21; De 7:25,26; Jer 16:18; 44:4

will I.

29:15; Ps 107:39; Jer 10:24; *marg:

Ro 11:12

neither shall.

7:4,9; 8:18; 9:5,10; 24:14; De 29:20; La 2:21; Zec 11:6; Mal 3:17

Ro 8:32; 11:21; 2Pe 2:4,5

third part of.

2; 6:12; Jer 15:2; 21:9; Zec 13:7-9

and I will scatter.

2,10; 6:8; Jer 9:16; Zec 7:14

and I will draw.This was particularly fulfilled in the destruction of those who retired to Egypt; and has been remarkably verified in the many persecutions and miseries which the Jews have suffered at different times, in the various countries into which they are dispersed.

2; 12:14; Le 26:33; De 28:65; Jer 42:16,17,22; 43:10,11; 44:27

Am 9:4

Ezekiel 7:15

5:12; De 32:23-25; Jer 14:18; 15:2,3; La 1:20

Ezekiel 14:21

How much more when. or, Also when. my four.

13,15,17,19; 5:12,17; 6:11,12; 33:27; Jer 15:2,3; Am 4:6-12

Re 6:4-8
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