Amos 6:4-7; Amos 8:10; James 4:10; James 4:9; Psalms 30:11
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...
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 jo...
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 tha...
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...
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 perh...
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 v...
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...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Either our rejoicing at our solemn festivals, and dancings there, which were usual, as appeareth from many scriptures; or all our joy and dancings, a...
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 oppressiv...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:14 . Entire collapse of interest in the common ways of life was shown by the abandonment of public meetings an...
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...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Description of the Present Misery
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning, all mirth and cheer being things of the past.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.