Exodus 22:24; Hosea 14:3; Jeremiah 18:21
Our mothers are as widows - The particle “as” suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to th...
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...
Here the Prophet not only speaks in the person of the whole people, but utters also the groans and complaints of each; for this could not have...
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We are ... fatherless - our whole land is full of orphans (Calvin). Or, "we are fat...
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...
Our mothers are as widows ] i.e. without protection and support. 5 Our necks are under persecution] RV 'our pursuers are upon our necks.'
Our mothers are as widows — i.e., their husbands, though living, were carried into exile, and they were as destitute as though they had been depr...
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...
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...
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 orpha...
We are orphans and fatherless ,.... In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a...
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. Ver. 3. We are orphans and fatherless. ] And so are become thy clients, just objects o...
Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
We are all of us without a king, (who is the common father of the country,) we are deprived of thy fatherly care and protection, many young children...
We are orphans and fatherless, Our mothers are as widows. They were orphans and fatherless, and their mothers were as widows because the menfolk ha...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abrah...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
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 can...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Description of the Present Misery
We are orphans and fatherless, like those that have been deprived of their natural protectors; our mothers are as widows, this statement bringing o...
We — We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left wit...
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.