“ The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ”
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...
He pursues the same subject, but he seems more clearly to explain what he had briefly stated in the preceding verse, when he says that all joy of the heart had ceased, and that all the dances...
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
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...
The joy of our heart is ceased ,.... ward joy was gone, as well as the external signs of it: it "sabbatized" y, as it may be rendered; alluding perhaps to the cordial joy expressed formerly on their...
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. Ver. 15. The joy of our heart is ceased. ] Heb., Keepeth Sabbath, i.e., is vanished, and that because we made not God's Sabbat...
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...
Either our rejoicing at our solemn festivals, and dancings there, which were usual, as appeareth from many scriptures; or all our joy and dancings, as well at other times as in our solemn festivals.
The joy of our heart is ceased, Our dance is turned into mourning. No longer were the inhabitants of Judah joyful at heart. Life under an oppressive regime had removed all the joy out of life. And...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:14 . Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings and social pastimes. The elders ceased from [freque...
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
Amos 6:4-7 ; Amos 8:10 ; James 4:10 ; James 4:9 ; Psalms 30:11