Lamentations 4:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, ”

Lamentations 4:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The blood of the just - Jeremiah 26:7-24 exhibits priests and prophets as the prime movers in an attempt to silence the word of God by putting Jeremiah to death. Compare the margin reference to...
Lamentations 4:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of (g) her, (g) He means that these things are come to pass therefore, contrary t...
Lamentations 4:13 - 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 4:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

just . righteous ones. Compare Matthew 23:31 ; Matthew 23:37 .
Lamentations 4:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet, as in a matter fully proved, rebukes the Jews, that he might, as it was necessary, bring down their pride. Had he at first condemned the wickedness of the prophets and the priests,...
Lamentations 4:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests - These mo...
Lamentations 4:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, For the sins of her prophets - the false prophets ( Jeremiah 23:11 ;...
Lamentations 4:13 - 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 4:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That have shed the blood of the just... — The words point to incidents like the death of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada ( 2 Chronicles 24:21 ); the “innocent blood” shed by Manasseh ( 2 Kings 21:16...
Lamentations 4:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

LEPERS Lamentations 4:13-16 PASSING from the fate of the princes to that of the prophets and priests, we come upon a vividly dramatic scene in the streets of Jerusalem amid the terror and confu...
Lamentations 4:13 - 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 4:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselve...
Lamentations 4:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests ,.... Aben Ezra interprets this of the prophets of Baal, and the priests of the high places; but though false prophets and wicked pr...
Lamentations 4:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, Ver. 13. For the sins of her prophets. ] These, these were the right ca...
Lamentations 4:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the sins of her prophets , &c. That is, of the false prophets, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem chiefly hearkened; and the iniquities of her priests Who bore rule by their means, Jer...
Lamentations 4:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. B. C. 588. 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the in...
Lamentations 4:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Not for their sins alone who were the false prophets and Baal's priests , but for their sins in an eminent degree; they were the ringleaders, either encouraging the people to the wickednesses they...
Lamentations 4:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem's Predicament Was Largely Due To The Priests And The Prophets Who Would Suffer Accordingly ( Lamentations 4:12-17 ). The prophet now draws attention to the fact of how much of Jerusalem'...
Lamentations 4:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (מ) Lamentations 4:13 . It is needful to connect this verse with the last by words like, This incredible thing came to pass, because of the sins of her prophets, the iniqui...
Lamentations 4:13 - 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 4:13 - 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 4:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests
Lamentations 4:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Acts 7:52 ; Ezekiel 22:26-28 ; Jeremiah 14:14 ; Jeremiah 2:20 ; Jeremiah 23:11-21 ; Jeremiah 26:8 ; Jeremiah 26:9 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Jeremiah 6...
Lamentations 4:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Priests — The ecclesiastical men were a great cause of the first and last destruction of Jerusalem. And so they are of most other places that come to ruin, through their neglect of their duty, or e...

Lamentations 4:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 4:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 4:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes