Lamentations 4:13

just. righteous ones. Compare Matthew 23:31; Matthew 23:37.

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 t...
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 th...
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 condemn...
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 prop...
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 he...
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 sac...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

For the sins of] RV 'It is because of the sins of.' Zion's prophets were really murderers ( 2 Chronicles 24:21 ; Jeremiah 26:23 ).
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...
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...
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,...
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 blin...
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 hi...
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...
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 o...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. B. C. 588. ...
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, eith...
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 dra...
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,...
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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold becom...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, Cf Jeremiah 23:11-21 ; Jeremiah 26:7-16 , that have shed the blood of the just in...
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...
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...

¹³ 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,

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 4:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamentations 4:13