“ Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. ”
Our necks ... - i. e. we were pursued so actively that our enemies seemed to be leaning over our necks ready to seize us. We labor - We were wearied, “there was no rest for us:” being chased...
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...
Our necks are under persecution . Our pursuers are upon our necks. persecution . pursuers. and. Some codices, with two early printed editions and Syriac, read this "and" in the text. have no...
Here he says that the people were oppressed with a grievous bondage. It is, indeed, a metaphorical expression when he says, that people suffered persecution on their necks. Enemies may sometime...
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Our necks are under persecution - We feel the yoke of our bondage; we are driven to our work like the bullock, which has a yoke upon...
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Our necks are under persecution - literally, On our necks we are persecuted - i:e., men tread on our necks ( Psalms 66:12 ; Isai...
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...
Our necks are under persecution. — Better, were under pursuit: i.e., the enemies were pressing close on them, always, as in our English phrase, at their very heels.
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
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...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We h...
Our necks [are] under persecution ,.... A yoke of hard servitude and bondage was put upon their necks, as Jarchi interprets it; which they were forced to submit unto: or, "upon our necks we are purs...
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. Ver. 5. Our necks are under persecution. ] For that we would not stoop to the sweet yoke of thine obedience, but held it heavy, no...
Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. We are orph...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
As the generality of prisoners of war are made slaves, and put to hard and incessant labour, so in probability the most of the Jews were at first at least.
Our pursuers are on our necks, We are weary, and have no rest. The ‘pursuers' are probably the men set to watch over them as they went about their working day, or as they followed other pursuits. T...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which his descendants had held possessi...
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...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
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
Acts 15:10 ; Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Deuteronomy 28:65 ; Deuteronomy 28:66 ; Jeremiah 27:11 ; Jeremiah 27:12 ; Jeremiah 27:2 ; Jeremiah 27:8 ; Jeremiah 28:14 ; Lamentations 1:14 ; Lamentations...