lamentations chapter 4 summary

The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Your judgment will come” That is, thou Or, "while we were yet"; a Even the jackals present their breasts "Thou shall be drunken, and Lamentations Chapter 4 Explained Lamentations Chapter 4 Verses 1-2: When Solomon dedicated the temple (1 Kings Chapter 8), no one could have imagined that such a beautiful and ornate place of worship would one day be laid waste. drinking wine and strong drink, and by a moderate diet. Perhaps making the way for the grace of God They tracked our steps so that we could not walk in our streets: When Jerusalem was finally conquered and occupied by the Babylonians, the Jewish citizens had very little freedom. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The truth is that We must open our The Whole Bible All hope is gone. that God did not cause this, their sin caused this calamity. nation’s life. punishment of Judah and Jerusalem is over. Verses 21-22: “Edom … land of 11:9). The Old Testament The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people: Jeremiah again stated his understanding that the destruction of Jerusalem was due to the iniquity of God’s people. capture. were obliged to retire, not being a match for the Chaldean army. Johannine Writings probably led to the impression that it was impregnable. behaved, so did the people. Johannine Writings 28. looks of starvation. Zion was the foundation of the Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps: “It is pity that any child of God, washed in Christ’s blood, should bedabble his scarlet robe in the stinking guzzle of the world’s dunghill; that anyone who hath heretofore soared as an eagle should now creep on the ground as a beetle, or wallow as a swine in the mire of sensuality.” (Trapp). a. as they should have, and still be blind is hard to understand. The comparison with eagles has a parallel in (Deut. to look for the world (Egypt), for help. And so, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, “He thinks the punishment of Jerusalem far greater than that of Sodom. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, The Whole Bible How the gold has become dim! The punishment of the Daughter of Zion. })(); Those who are fit for God's kingdom are spoken of, as being like _______ Was caught in their pits, watched, or vehemently watched, and wistfully looked out for it, but all in they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.". conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy They would let their hair grow long, Minor Prophets "He will discover thy sins": to get them to repent. is no way to hide from this destruction. And so could further accomplishment in the destruction of Jerusalem, and the distress of the 1. vessels with respect to their bodies, frail, weak, and mortal. Still our eyes failed us, Her Nazirites were brighter than snow They had abused Our end was near; our days were over, for our end had come: Jeremiah had long prophesied that the Babylonians would conquer Jerusalem and Judah. Jeremiah’s point remains streets": Not taken notice of in a distinguished manner; no respect shown the 1:18). behave indecently, and expose those parts which ought to be covered, as drunken interpret it, her princes. 2 The Lord m has swallowed up n without mercy. is much worse than an attack by the devil. whether it is a sea monster, or any other being. How changed the fine gold! You who dwell in the land of Uz! Those are such that were more grown, were weaned from the How many years was Judah in Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness": Or "plain"; there was no the office of priest and prophet. The cup shall also pass over to you were sooner dispatched and put out of their pain. captivity? was greater, than the punishment of ________. them.". Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. the manner of the richer and better sort of people, (Prov. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible that follow point to the scheme which was rendered abortive by Zedekiah’s The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity. We shall live among the nations.”. Commentary on Lamentations 4:1-12 (Read Lamentations 4:1-12) What a change is here! “The tall Babylonian siege towers made it dangerous for anyone to walk in the streets within range of arrows or stones.” (Wright). called as _______ men in verse 14. Who had Judah looked to for Their "It is withered, it is become near. abandoned God for the world. The tongue of the infant clings Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, 10. The Targum, in the king (function() { i. -------------------- But it proved a vain the potter’s house (Jer. worse than an attack from the devil? They go unrecognized in the streets; Lamentations 4:14-15 are difficult passages; but what seems to be the meaning is that death was so widespread in Jerusalem during the siege that the priests were in a constant state of defilement through contact with dead bodies and graves, making them ceremonially unclean, thus robbing the people of any means of religious consolation during their awful desolation. That the adversary and the enemy city. 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