Lamentations 2:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? ”

Lamentations 2:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sense is: “See, Yahweh, and look! whom hast Thou treated thus? Shall women eat their fruit - children whom they must still carry?” the swaddled child being one still needing to be nursed and bo...
Lamentations 2:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2. The Second Lament. This differs from the first in its contents, and in its literary form. The metrical matters are the same, i.e. there are twenty-two verses, wherein the first wo...
Lamentations 2:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

consider. Put. colon after "consider", and an"? "after "this". Shall... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:29 ; Deuteronomy 28:53 ). App-92. span. S...
Lamentations 2:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here, also, Jeremiah dictates words, or a form of prayer to the Jews. And this complaint availed to excite pity, that God had thus afflicted, not strangers, but the people whom he had adopted....
Lamentations 2:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Consi...
Lamentations 2:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Consider to whom thou hast done this— Whether thou hast done the like to any one. Houbigant.
Lamentations 2:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?...
Lamentations 2:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's Sorrows due to Jehovah's Anger In this second dirge, the cause of Zion's woe is dwelt upon. Jehovah has become angry with His people, therefore He has cast them off. Zion's miseries are the...
Lamentations 2:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

To whom thou hast done this — i.e., not to a heathen nation, but to the people whom Jehovah Himself had chosen. Shall the women eat their fruit. — Atrocities of this nature had been predicted...
Lamentations 2:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE CALL TO PRAYER Lamentations 2:18-22 IT is not easy to analyse the complicated construction of the concluding portion of the second elegy. If the text is not corrupt its transitions are very...
Lamentations 2:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the second poem, the prophet dealt with the sources of the sorrow he had described. Again affirming that it was the result of the direct action of Jehovah, he proceeded to describe it in its mater...
Lamentations 2:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach...
Lamentations 2:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this ,.... On whom thou hast brought these calamities of famine and sword; not upon thine enemies, but upon thine own people, that are called by t...
Lamentations 2:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Ver...
Lamentations 2:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, O Lord, to whom thou hast done this To thy people, for whom thou hast formerly expressed so much tenderness and affection. Jerusalem seems to be here introduced speaking. Shall the women e...
Lamentations 2:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the gro...
Lamentations 2:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Consider to whom thou hast done this; that is, not to heathen, who never owned thee, nor were called by thy name, but to thine own people, called thy portion and thine heritage; let thy former rela...
Lamentations 2:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The People Cry To The Sovereign Lord. They Call On The Wall Of Jerusalem To Weep For Jerusalem and Its Inhabitants And On YHWH To Consider What He Has Done ( Lamentations 2:18-22 ). The change bet...
Lamentations 2:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ר) Lamentations 2:20 . The prayer is put into words correspondent with the circumstances. See, Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done this , to the city called thine, to...
Lamentations 2:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 2:1 . How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud. The day break, but no sun shines, no opening of future hope. Lamentations 2:2 . The Lord hath swallowed up all th...
Lamentations 2:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, O Ford, and consider to whom Thou hast done this. Fervent prayer 1. The only way of remedy in our greatest miseries is to call upon God in fervent prayer. (1) It declareth that we ar...
Lamentations 2:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

ZION 'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD . LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS . EXPOSITION Lamentations 2:1 Hath the Lord covered; rather, doth … cover . The daughter of Zion; i.e. Jer...
Lamentations 2:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vanity of Human Consolation Together with a Plea for Help
Lamentations 2:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:3 ; 2 Chronicles 36:17 ; Amos 4:10 ; Deuteronomy 28:50 ; Esther 3:13 ; Ezekiel 5:11 ; Ezekiel 7:4 ; Ezekiel 7:9 ; Ezekiel 8:18 ; Ezekiel 9:10 ; Ezekiel 9:5 ; Ezekiel 9:6 ; Is...
Lamentations 2:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Whom — Not the Heathen, but to thy own people. Women — Wilt thou suffer women to satisfy their hunger with the fruit of their own bodies?

Lamentations 2:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 2:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 2:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 2:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 2:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 2:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 2:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 2:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 2:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 2:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lamentations 2:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 2:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 2:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 2:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes