Lamentations 4:5

1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Samuel 1:24; Amos 6:3-7; Deuteronomy 28:54-56; Isaiah 24:6-12; Isaiah 3:16-26; Isaiah 32:9-14; Jeremiah 6:2; Jeremiah 6:3; Jeremiah 9:21; Jeremiah 9:22; Job 24:8; Luke 15:16; Luke 16:19; Luke 7:25; Proverbs 31:21; Revelation 18:7-9

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 4:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They that were brought up in scarlet - literally, “those that were carried upon scarlet;” young children in arms and of the highest birth now lie...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

embrace. Compare Job 24:8 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here he goes on farther, and says, that they had perished with famine who had been accustomed to the most delicate food. He had said generally...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Embrace dunghills - Lie on straw o...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They that did feed delicately, &c.— See the note on 1 Samuel 2:8 where it has been observed that it was usual in the east to burn dried dung,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. They that did feed delicate...
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

Delicately ] daintily ( Proverbs 29:21 ). Brought up in scarlet ] lit. 'carried upon scarlet,' as infants. Embrace dunghills ] lie upon dust heaps...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They that were brought up... — Literally, that were carried (as children are carried). “Scarlet” as in 2 Samuel 1:24 , stands for the shawls or...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1-12 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan o...
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

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious so...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets ,.... That were brought up in the king's palace, or in the houses of noblemen; or, however...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. Ver. 5. They that did feed deli...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast The very dragons have drawn out the breast: so Blaney. Even these fierce and destructive animals are not...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. B. C...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This judgment reached not only to the common people, but to persons of the highest rank and order, whose misery was now so much the greater, because...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sad Condition Of The People Of Jerusalem Due To The Anger Of YHWH ( Lamentations 4:1-11 ). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ג). Lamentations 4:3 . Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. Even the jackals draw out —present— the breast; a fa...
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

Jerusalem's Affliction a Punishment for her Guilt
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They that did feed delicately, being very choicy in the selection of the viands which loaded down their tables, are desolate in the streets, withou...

⁵ They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 4:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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