Lamentations 4:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. ”

Lamentations 4:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king. Lamentations 4:17 Rather, “Still do our eyes waste away looking for our vain help.” In our watching - Or, “on our...
Lamentations 4:19 - 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 4:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

persecutors . pursuers. swifter than the eagles. Ref, to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 28:49 ).
Lamentations 4:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here, then, the Prophet means, that the Jews were so straitened, that there was no escape for them, because their steps were observed by their enemies, and also because the Chaldeans had recour...
Lamentations 4:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. They pursued us upon the mountains - They hunted down the poor...
Lamentations 4:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Our persecutors, &c.— The Lord hath brought upon us the judgment that he threatened by Moses, of bringing a nation against us, as swift as the eagle flieth; for such are the Chaldean horsemen....
Lamentations 4:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. Our persecutors are swifter than eagles. The last times...
Lamentations 4:19 - 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 4:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Our persecutors. — Better, Our pursuers, the words referring to the Chaldæan enemies rather than to persecutors in the modern sense of the word. The comparison with eagles has a parallel in Deut...
Lamentations 4:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VAIN HOPES Lamentations 4:17-20 THE first part of the fourth elegy was specially concerned with the fate of the gilded youth of Jerusalem; the second and closely parallel part with that of the...
Lamentations 4:19 - 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 4:19 - 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 4:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heavens ,.... That fly in the heavens; and which, as they have a quick sight to discern their prey afar off, are very swift to pursue it; they are...
Lamentations 4:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. Ver. 19. Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles. ] Th...
Lamentations 4:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets The Chaldeans, employed in the siege, are so close upon us, that we cannot stir a foot, nor look out at our doors, nor walk safely in the street...
Lamentations 4:19 - 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 4:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Our enemies who pursued us to destroy us were very swift in their pursuit of us, ( As swift as an eagle , was a proverbial expression,) we could no where be safe: if we sought refuge in the mountain...
Lamentations 4:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Aftermath Of The Taking Of The City ( Lamentations 4:18-20 ). In vivid terms the prophet describes what followed the taking of the city. People cowered in their houses afraid to go out. For th...
Lamentations 4:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ע) Lamentations 4:17 refers to the persons remaining in the city, who, notwithstanding that God’s righteous judgments had so afflicted prophets and priests, yet thought long...
Lamentations 4:19 - 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 4:19 - 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 4:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests
Lamentations 4:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 2:14 ; Amos 9:1-3 ; Deuteronomy 28:49 ; Habakkuk 1:8 ; Hosea 8:1 ; Isaiah 30:16 ; Isaiah 30:17 ; Isaiah 5:26-28 ; Jeremiah 4:13 ; Matthew 24:27 ; Matthew 24:28

Lamentations 4:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 4:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge