Lamentations 1:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of greata servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. ”

Lamentations 1:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because of ... - i. e. the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, “is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and laborious servitude,” to which they are subject in their own...
Lamentations 1:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judah is gone into captivity because (e) of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress....
Lamentations 1:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1. The First Lament. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1-11 (...
Lamentations 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

among the heathen. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 28:64 ; Deuteronomy 28:65 ). heathen . nations. persecutors . pursuers. between the straits. Like. hunted animal driven where there...
Lamentations 1:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Interpreters apply this, but in my view improperly, to the captivity of the people; on the contrary, the Prophet means that the Jews had been scattered and sought refuges when oppressed, as the...
Lamentations 1:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Between...
Lamentations 1:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Because of affliction, and—servitude— She sitteth in affliction and in great service among the heathen, and findeth no rest. Houbigant.
Lamentations 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. J...
Lamentations 1:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's Desolation and Sorrow Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intim...
Lamentations 1:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Because of affliction. — The Authorised version suggests the thought that the words refer to the voluntary emigration of those who went to Egypt and other countries ( Jeremiah 42:14 ), to avoid the...
Lamentations 1:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

DESOLATION Lamentations 1:1-7 THE first elegy is devoted to moving pictures of the desolation of Jerusalem and the sufferings of her people. It dwells upon these disasters themselves, with fewe...
Lamentations 1:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented...
Lamentations 1:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth...
Lamentations 1:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judah is gone into captivity ,.... Not only Jerusalem the metropolis of Judea was destroyed, but the whole country was ravaged, and the inhabitants of it carried captive into Babylon: because of a...
Lamentations 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Ver. 3...
Lamentations 1:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction , &c. Her miseries have received their finishing stroke in a total captivity among, and bondage to, heathen and infidels, because of the oppres...
Lamentations 1:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Miseries of Jerusalem; Grief for the Loss of Ordinances. B. C. 588. 1 How doth the c...
Lamentations 1:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is expounded as the cause why the Jews were carried into captivity, because of the servitude and oppression exercised amongst them, oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally, keep...
Lamentations 1:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet Pines Over What Jerusalem Has Lost ( Lamentations 1:1-7 ). In these opening verses ( Lamentations 1:1-7 ) Jerusalem is pictured by the writer in terms of how it now was, an empty city,...
Lamentations 1:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ג) Lamentations 1:3 . Judah , the population of the whole territory, with that of Jerusalem, is taken into exile , a subjugated, impoverished remnant being left. From affli...
Lamentations 1:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א aleph, the second with ב beth; and eac...
Lamentations 1:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction. Afflictive dispensations 1. The outward things of this life are the soonest lost; and being enjoyed, the most uncertain. (1) They are most...
Lamentations 1:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 1:1-25 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM . Lamentations 1:1 , Lamentations 1:2 The fate of Jerusalem is described in language which resembles here...
Lamentations 1:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Shameful Lot which has come upon Jerusalem
Lamentations 1:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:20 ; 2 Chronicles 36:21 ; 2 Kings 24:14 ; 2 Kings 24:15 ; 2 Kings 25:11 ; 2 Kings 25:21 ; Amos 9:1-4 ; Deuteronomy 28:64-67 ; Ezekiel 5:12 ; Jeremiah 16:16 ; Jeremiah 24:9...
Lamentations 1:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Lamentations of Jeremiah Lamentations 1:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The compassionate Christ. Even now we can, in our imagination, see the Lord Jesus Christ as He wept over Jerusalem. We ca...
Lamentations 1:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Because — Because of the servitude and oppression exercised among them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally; keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when they ought...

Lamentations 1:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 1:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 1:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 1:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 1:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 1:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 1:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 1:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 1:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lamentations 1:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 1:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 1:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 1:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Lamentations 1:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes