Lamentations 1:1, The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins; Lamentations 1:12, The attention and compassion of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case; Lamentations 1:18, The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated, with prayers against insulting foes.
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Lamentations 1 — Overview
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Lamentations 1 — OverviewLamentations 1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two
stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and
her present deplorable condition is aggravated by comparing it with her…Lamentations 1 — OverviewLamentations 1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis book very properly follows the prophecy of Jeremiah, not only because wrote by him, but because of the subject matter of it, the deplorable case of the Jews upon the destruction of their city; and has been reckoned…Lamentations 1:1-11Lamentations 1:1-11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThose that have any disposition to weep with those that weep, one would
think, should scarcely be able to refrain from tears at the reading of
these verses, so very pathetic are the lamentations here.
I. The…Lamentations 1:1Lamentations 1:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeHow doth: The LXX have the following words as an introduction: "And it came to pass after Israel had been carried captive, and Jerusalem was become desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation…Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:2 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeweepeth: Lamentations 1:16, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:18-19; Job 7:3; Psalms 6:6, Psalms 77:2-6; Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 9:17-19, Jeremiah 13:17
among: Lamentations 1:19; Jeremiah 4:30, Jeremiah 22:20-22,…Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleShe weepeth sore in the night,.... Or, "weeping weeps" ; two weepings, one for the first, the other for the second temples ; and while others are taking their sleep and rest; a season fit for mourners, when they can…