Lam 2 | TSK | STEP | Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem. He complains thereof to God. How. covered. and cast. the beauty. his footstool.

he hath violently."He hath destroyed the temple, as if it had been no better than a cottage erected in a garden, while the fruit is gathering, and then removed, or suffered to decay."

Ps 80:12; 89:40; Isa 5:5; 63:18; 64:11

tabernacle. or, hedge. as if.

Isa 1:8

caused.

1:4; Zep 3:18

the king.

4:16,20; 5:12; Isa 43:28; Jer 52:11-27; Eze 12:12,13; 17:18

Mal 2:9

cast off.

1; Le 26:31,44; Ps 78:59-61; Isa 64:10,11; Jer 7:12-14; 26:6,18

Jer 52:13; Eze 7:20-22; 24:21; Mic 3:12; Mt 24:2; Ac 6:13,14

given up. Heb. shut up.

5; 2Ch 36:19; Jer 32:29; 33:3,4; 39:8; Eze 7:24; Am 2:5

they have.

Ps 72:4-20; 74:3-8; Eze 7:21,22

purposed.

17; Isa 5:5; Jer 5:10

stretched.

2Sa 8:2; 2Ki 21:13; Isa 28:17; 34:11; Am 7:7,8

he hath not.

Job 13:21; Eze 20:22

destroying. Heb. swallowing up.

2,5

he made.

Isa 3:26; Jer 14:2

gates.

Ne 1:3; Jer 39:2,8; 51:30; 52:14

her king.

1:3; 4:15,20; De 28:36; 2Ki 24:12-16; 25:7; Jer 52:8,9; Eze 12:13

Eze 17:20

the law.

2Ch 15:3; Eze 7:26; Ho 3:4

her prophets.

Ps 74:9; Am 8:11,12; Mic 3:6,7

elders.

4:5,16; 5:12,14; Job 2:13; Isa 3:26; 47:1,5

sit.Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Judæa capta.}

1:1

and keep.

3:28; Jer 8:14; Am 5:13; 8:3

cast up.

Jos 7:6; 2Sa 13:19; Job 2:12; Re 18:19

they have girded.

Isa 15:3; 36:22; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Joe 1:8

the virgins.

1:4; Am 8:13

eyes.

1:16; 3:48-51; 1Sa 30:4; Ps 6:7; 31:9; 69:3; Isa 38:14

my bowels.

1:20; Jer 4:19

my liver.

Job 16:13; Ps 22:14

for.

4:10; Isa 22:4; Jer 8:19-22; 9:1; 14:17

because.

19,20; 4:3,4,9,10; Lu 23:29

swoon. or, faint.

as the.

Eze 30:24

soul.

Isa 53:12

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

prophets.

Isa 9:15,16; Jer 2:8; 5:31; 6:13,14; 8:10,11; 14:13-15; 23:11-17

Jer 27:14-16; 28:15; 29:8,9; 37:19; Eze 13:2-16; Mic 2:11; 3:5-7

2Pe 2:1-3

they have.

Isa 58:1; Jer 23:22; Eze 13:22

false.

Jer 23:14-17,31,32; 27:9,10; Eze 22:25,28; Mic 3:5; Zep 3:4 The combination of scorn, enmity, rage, and exultation, which the conquerors and spectators manifested at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, are here described with peculiar pathos and energy. The whole scene is presented to view as in an exquisitely finished historical painting.

that pass.

De 29:22-28; 1Ki 9:7-9; 2Ch 7:21; Jer 18:16

by. Heb. by the way. clap.

1:8; Job 27:22,23; Eze 25:6; Na 3:19

they.

16; Jer 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18; 51:37; Mic 6:16; Zep 2:15

wag.

2Ki 19:21; Ps 22:7; 44:14,15; Isa 37:22; Jer 18:16; Mt 27:39

Mr 15:29

Is this.

6; Ps 48:2; 50:2; Isa 64:11

thine.

3:46; Job 16:9,10; Ps 22:13; 35:21; 109:2

gnash.

Ps 35:16; 37:12; 112:10; Ac 7:54

We have swallowed.

Ps 56:2; 57:3; 124:3; Isa 49:19; Jer 50:7,17; 51:34; Eze 25:3,6,15

Eze 36:3; Ho 8:8; Zep 2:8-10

we have seen.

Ps 35:21; 41:8; Ob 1:12-16

done.

8; Le 26:14-46; De 28:15-68; 29:18-23; 31:16,17; 32:15-27

Jer 18:11; Mic 2:3

he hath thrown.

1,2; Eze 5:11; 7:8,9; 8:18; 9:10

he hath caused.

1:5; De 28:43,44; Ps 38:16; 89:42

heart.

Ps 119:145; Isa 26:16,17; Ho 7:14

O wall.

8; Hab 2:11

let tears.

1:2,16; 3:48,49; Ps 119:136; Jer 4:31; 9:1,17,18; 13:17; 14:17

the apple.{Bath ayin,} which sometimes means the pupil of the eye, seems here to denote tears, the produce of the eye; and therefore elegantly termed the daughter of the eye.

cry out.

Ps 42:8; 62:8; 119:55,147,148; Isa 26:9; Mr 1:35; Lu 6:12

watches.

Jud 7:19; Mt 14:25; Mr 13:35

pour.

1Sa 1:15; 7:6; Job 3:24; Ps 62:8; 142:2

lift up.

Ps 28:2; 63:4; 134:2; 141:2; 1Ti 2:8

that faint.

11,12; 4:1-9; Isa 51:20; Eze 5:10,16; Na 3:10

consider.

Ex 32:11; De 9:26; Isa 63:16-19; 64:8-12; Jer 14:20-21