foxes. jackals.
The foxes - Or, jackals. As these animals live among ruins, and shun the presence of man, it shows that Zion is laid waste and deserted.
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 a...
Though he had in general included all kinds of evils, he yet mentions now the principal cause of sorrow, that mount Sion had lost its beauty...
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. The foxes walk upon it - Foxes are very numerous in Palestine, see on Ju...
Because of the mountain of Zion— Houbigant connects this with the preceding verse; For these things our eyes are dim; for mount Zion, because it i...
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. The mountain of Zion ... foxes walk upon it - they frequent desol...
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 tha...
Foxes. — Better, jackals, who are thought of as haunting the ruins of Jerusalem. (Comp. Psalms 63:10 .)
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 r...
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...
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 th...
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate ,.... Meaning either the city of Jerusalem in general, or the temple in particular, which both la...
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. Ver. 18. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, ] q.d....
For this our heart is faint And sinks under the load of its own heaviness. Our eyes are dim See on Lamentations 2:11 . Our spirits fail us, and...
Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. B. C. 588....
Foxes and other wild beasts, which flee from places inhabited for fear of men inhabiting, and are much in desolate places. The mountain of Zion, wher...
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, The jackals walk on it. Capping all that has gone before was the fact that the mountain of Zion, that...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:17 . How depressing is the conviction of personal sin. For this our heart has become faint. Many sorrows had...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
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 overt...
For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim. Zion’s sufferings 1. The best are exposed to sorrow. That the best are not out...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love
Because of the mountain of Zion, where the Temple had formerly stood, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it, jackals making their dens in its r...
1 Kings 9:7 ; 1 Kings 9:8 ; Isaiah 32:13 ; Isaiah 32:14 ; Jeremiah 17:3 ; Jeremiah 26:9 ; Jeremiah 52:13 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ; Lamentations 2:8...
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.