Lamentações de Jeremias 1:2

2 Chora amargamente de noite, e as lágrimas lhe correm pelas faces; não tem quem a console entre todos os seus amantes; todos os seus amigos se houveram aleivosamente com ela; tornaram-se seus inimigos.

Lamentações de Jeremias 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 1:2

She weepeth sore in the night
Or, "weeping weeps" F9; two weepings, one for the first, the other for the second temples F11; and while others are taking their sleep and rest; a season fit for mourners, when they can give their grief the greater vent, without any interruption from others; and it being now a night of affliction with her, which occasioned this sore weeping. Jarchi observes, that it was in the night that the temple was burnt: and her tears [are] on her cheeks;
continue there, being always flowing, and never wholly dried up; which shows how great her grief was, and that her weeping was without intermission; or otherwise tears do not lie long, but are soon dried up, or wiped off: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her];
as the Assyrians formerly were, ( Ezekiel 23:5 Ezekiel 23:9 Ezekiel 23:12 ) ; and more lately the Egyptians her allies and confederates, in whom she trusted; but these gave her no assistance; nor yielded her any relief in her distress; nor so much as spoke one word of comfort to her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her
enemies;
those who pretended great friendship to her, and were in strict alliance with her, acted the treacherous part, and withdrew from her, leaving her to the common enemy; and not only so, but behaved towards her in a hostile manner themselves; for "the children of Noph and Tahapanes", places in Egypt confederate with the Jews, are said to "have broken the crown of their head", ( Jeremiah 2:16 ) . The Targum interprets the "lovers" of the "idols" she loved to follow, who now could be of no use unto her by way of comfort.


FOOTNOTES:

F9 (hkbt hkb) "plorando plorat", Vatablus; "plorando plorabit", Pagninus, Montanus.
F11 T. Sanhedr. ib. col. 2.

Lamentações de Jeremias 1:2 In-Context

1 Como está sentada solitária a cidade que era tão populosa! tornou-se como viúva a que era grande entre as nações! A que era princesa entre as províncias tornou-se avassalada!
2 Chora amargamente de noite, e as lágrimas lhe correm pelas faces; não tem quem a console entre todos os seus amantes; todos os seus amigos se houveram aleivosamente com ela; tornaram-se seus inimigos.
3 Judá foi para o cativeiro para sofrer aflição e dura servidão; ela habita entre as nações, não acha descanso; todos os seus perseguidores a alcançaram nas suas angústias.
4 Os caminhos de Sião pranteiam, porque não há quem venha � assembléia solene; todas as suas portas estão desoladas; os seus sacerdotes suspiram; as suas virgens estão tristes, e ela mesma sofre amargamente.
5 Os seus adversários a dominam, os seus inimigos prosperam; porque o Senhor a afligiu por causa da multidão das suas transgressões; os seus filhinhos marcharam para o cativeiro adiante do adversário.
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