Lamentations 4:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. ”

Lamentations 4:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Pitiful - i. e. tender-hearted, compassionate. meat is used for food Psalms 69:21 . What is here stated actually occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by Titus.
Lamentations 4:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4. The Fourth Lament. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3 , and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:...
Lamentations 4:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pitiful . tender-hearted. have sodden, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 28:56 ; Deuteronomy 28:57 ). Compare 2 Kings 6:29 . children . babes.
Lamentations 4:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here Jeremiah refers to that disgraceful and abominable deed mentioned yesterday; for it was not only a barbarity, but a beastly savageness, when mothers boiled their own children. That it was...
Lamentations 4:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children - Se...
Lamentations 4:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The hands, &c.— The hands of tender-hearted women have boiled their own children: they served them for meat in their calamity, &c.
Lamentations 4:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own childr...
Lamentations 4:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's former Glory contrasted with her present Humiliation In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom....
Lamentations 4:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The hands of the pitiful women . — See Note on Lamentations 2:20 .
Lamentations 4:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1-12 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of t...
Lamentations 4:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the...
Lamentations 4:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they...
Lamentations 4:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children ,.... Such as were naturally, and agreeably to their sex, pitiful and compassionate; merciful to the poor, as the Targum; and especially...
Lamentations 4:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Ver. 10. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden. ] Sodden t...
Lamentations 4:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children The affection of a mother toward her children is the strongest of all natural affections, and yet the famine hath forced that tender se...
Lamentations 4:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. B. C. 588....
Lamentations 4:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This was according to what God had threatened in case of disobedience, Deuteronomy 28:57 , and a thing which hath often happened in sieges, 2 Kings 6:29 . Such things did happen in the last des...
Lamentations 4:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sad Condition Of The People Of Jerusalem Due To The Anger Of YHWH ( Lamentations 4:1-11 ). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (pre...
Lamentations 4:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ג). Lamentations 4:3 . Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. Even the jackals draw out —present— the breast; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to thei...
Lamentations 4:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold, זהב zahab, so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now become dim. Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers...
Lamentations 4:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim!… the stones of the sanctuary, etc. "Alas f...
Lamentations 4:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jerusalem's Affliction a Punishment for her Guilt
Lamentations 4:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 6:26-29 ; 2 Kings 6:29 ; Deuteronomy 28:56 ; Deuteronomy 28:57 ; Isaiah 49:15 ; Lamentations 3:48 ; Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 4:3

Lamentations 4:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 4:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge