Lamentations 1
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Chapter 1
Chapter Overview:
Verses:
Jeremiah laments the former excellency and present misery of Jerusalem for her sin, ver. 1 - 11.
She complains of her grief, ver. 12 - 17.
Confesses God's judgments to be righteous: and prays to him, ver. 18 - 22.
| 1:1 | A widow - She that had a king, or rather a God, that was an husband to her, now was forsaken of God, and her king taken from her. |
| 1:3 | Because - Because of the servitude and oppression exercised among them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally; keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when they ought to be set at liberty. The straits - Those that pursued them overtook them in places where they could not escape. |
| 1:4 | She - Persons of all ages and ranks are in bitterness. |
| 1:10 | Pleasant things - Has laid violent hands on them. The things of the sanctuary were always pleasant things to those that feared God. |
| 1:11 | Bread - Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and honey, they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given - And gave any thing for something to satisfy their hunger. Vile - Miserable or contemptible. |
| 1:12 | Is it nothing - The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish church. |
| 1:13 | Fire - A judgment as consuming, and afflictive as fire. |
| 1:14 | Is bound - Put upon my neck on account of my transgressions.Wreathed - My punishments are twisted as cords; I have a complication of judgments upon me, sword, famine, pestilence, captivity. |
| 1:15 | An assembly - God had called an assembly of Chaldeans against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it. Trodden - God had trodden upon the Jews as men use to stamp grapes in a wine - press. |
| 1:16 | The comforter - God. |
| 1:17 | Jerusalem - Is become loathsome and filthy. |
| 1:19 | Deceived - They did not answer my expectation. |
| 1:20 | Death - By famine and pestilence. |
| 1:21 | They - The neighbouring nations. Like me - But thou hast foretold their destruction also, and hast by me proclaimed it: and thou shalt in that day bring them into as sad a condition as I am in now. |