耶利米哀歌 1:21

21 听 见 我 叹 息 的 有 人 ; 安 慰 我 的 却 无 人 ! 我 的 仇 敌 都 听 见 我 所 遭 的 患 难 ; 因 你 做 这 事 , 他 们 都 喜 乐 。 你 必 使 你 报 告 的 日 子 来 到 , 他 们 就 像 我 一 样 。

耶利米哀歌 1:21 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me,
&c.] That is, the nations, as the Targum; the neighbouring ones, those that were her confederates and allies; the same with her lovers, as before, as Aben Ezra observes; these being near her, knew full well her sorrowful and distressed condition, being as it were within the hearing of her sighs and groans; and yet none of them offered to help her, or so much as to speak a comfortable word to her: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble;
not only her friends, but foes; meaning the Tyrians, Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, and as the following description of them shows; for it must design others from the Chaldeans, that were the immediate cause of it: they are glad that thou hast done [it];
brought all this ruin and destruction on Jerusalem, which could never have been done, if the Lord had not willed it; and at this the above mentioned nations rejoiced; see ( Ezekiel 25:3 ) ( Obadiah 1:12 ) ; there being a considerable stop on the word glad, it may be rendered, as by some, "they are glad; but thou hast done it" F14; not they, but thou; and therefore must be patiently bore, and quietly submitted to, it being the Lord's doing: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called;
the time of, he destruction of, he Chaldeans, who had the chief hand in the ruin of the Jewish nation, and of those that rejoiced at it; which time was fixed by the Lord, and proclaimed and published by his prophets, and would certainly and exactly come, as and when it was pointed out: some F15 take it to be a wish or prayer, that God would bring it, as he had declared; though others interpret it in a quite different sense, "thou hast brought the day" F16; meaning on herself, the determined destruction; so the Targum,

``thou hast brought upon me the day of vengeance; thou hast called a time upon me to my desolation:''
and they shall be like unto me;
in the same distressed, desolate, and sorrowful condition, being brought to ruin and destruction; which afterwards was the case of the Chaldeans, and all the other nations.
FOOTNOTES:

F14 (tyve hta yk) "laetati sunt; sed tu fecisti", Grotius.
F15 "Utinam induceres diem", so some in Vatablus.
F16 (Mwy tabx) "adduxisti diem", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "induxisti [aut] inducis", Vatablus.

耶利米哀歌 1:21 In-Context

19 我 招 呼 我 所 亲 爱 的 , 他 们 却 愚 弄 我 。 我 的 祭 司 和 长 老 正 寻 求 食 物 、 救 性 命 的 时 候 , 就 在 城 中 绝 气 。
20 耶 和 华 啊 , 求 你 观 看 , 因 为 我 在 急 难 中 。 我 心 肠 扰 乱 ; 我 心 在 我 里 面 翻 转 , 因 我 大 大 悖 逆 。 在 外 , 刀 剑 使 人 丧 子 ; 在 家 , 犹 如 死 亡 。
21 听 见 我 叹 息 的 有 人 ; 安 慰 我 的 却 无 人 ! 我 的 仇 敌 都 听 见 我 所 遭 的 患 难 ; 因 你 做 这 事 , 他 们 都 喜 乐 。 你 必 使 你 报 告 的 日 子 来 到 , 他 们 就 像 我 一 样 。
22 愿 他 们 的 恶 行 都 呈 在 你 面 前 ; 你 怎 样 因 我 的 一 切 罪 过 待 我 , 求 你 照 样 待 他 们 ; 因 我 叹 息 甚 多 , 心 中 发 昏 。
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