Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezekiel 4:9-17; Isaiah 3:1
Better as in the margin cometh to us for price. The rendering of the the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the original. Th...
We have drank our (b) water for money; our wood is sold to us. (b) Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage.
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...
The Prophet here relates, that the people were denuded, that they labored under the want of water and of wood. He does not say that they were o...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. We have drunken our water for money - I suppose the meaning of this is, that every thi...
Our wood is sold unto us— Our wood came at a price upon our necks; Lamentations 5:5 . We are under persecution, &c. Houbigant. That number...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. We have drunken our water for money. The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy...
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 water... our wood. — The point of the complaint lies in the possessive pronoun. The Chaldæan conquerors were in possession of the country, and...
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 have drunken our water for money ,.... They who in their own land, which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, had wells of wat...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Ver. 4. We have drunk our water for money. ] Fire, water, and air are common good,...
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....
This seemeth to refer to the state of the Jews in Babylon, where it is probable their adversaries made them buy both water and wood, which in the lan...
We have drunk our water for money, Our wood is sold to us. Previously the water from their springs and rivers, and from their own cisterns, had bee...
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...
We have drunken our water for money, our wood is sold unto us. Zion’s sufferings 1. Common necessaries denied by adversaries. Fire and water ar...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Description of the Present Misery
We have drunken our water for money, namely, that which was rightfully their own; our wood is sold unto us, they were obliged to buy the very neces...
Sold — Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.