“ Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. ”
After the princes had been put to death their bodies were hung up by the hand to expose them to public contumely. Old age, again, no more availed to shield men from shameful treatment than the high...
Princes were hung up by (f) their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. (f) That is, by the enemies hand.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
faces. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for the whole person.
The beginning of the verse may be explained in two ways. All render thus, “The princes have been slain by their hand,” that is, of their enemies. But I wonder how it never occurred to them, tha...
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Princes are hanged up by their hand - It is very probable that this was a species of punishment. They were suspended from h...
By their hand— That is to say, by the hands of the Chaldeans.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Princes are hanged up by their hand - a piece of wanton cruelty invented by the Chaldeans. Grotius translates, 'Pri...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Princes are hanged... — The words point to the shameless exposure of the bodies of the dead. (Comp. the treatment of Saul and his sons in 1 Samuel 31:10-12 .) This was the common practice of the A...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The pr...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Princes are hanged up by their hand ,.... According to some, as Aben Ezra observes, by the hand of the servants before mentioned; however, by the hand of the Chaldeans or Babylonians; see Jeremiah...
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Ver. 12. Princes are hanged up by the hand. ] Made to die a dog's death, and, as some a will have it, by their own han...
Princes are hanged up by their hand By the hand of their enemies. They took the young men to grind To grind at the mill was the common employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5 . The children fell unde...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Most probably by the enemies hands, though some would have it by their hands, intimating a more sharp and lingering death. Hanging was an ancient way in the Eastern countries of putting malefactors t...
Princes were hanged up by their hand, The faces of elders were not honoured. The cruelty of conquerors was well known. The ‘princes' may well have been dead, for the display of the dead bodies of i...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Our skin is hot like an oven; the feverishness is...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
The elders have ceased from the gate. The seat of justice overthrown 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (a) It b...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Isaiah 47:6 ; Jeremiah 39:6 ; Jeremiah 39:7 ; Jeremiah 52:10 ; Jeremiah 52:11 ; Jeremiah 52:25-27 ; Lamentations 2:10 ; Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 4:16