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Klagelieder 4:6

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6 Und die Schuld der Tochter meines Volkes ist größer geworden als die Sünde Sodoms, welches plötzlich umgekehrt wurde, ohne daß Hände dabei tätig waren.

Klagelieder 4:6 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 4:6

For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my
people
In the long siege of their city, and the evils that attended it, especially the sore famine: is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom;
which was destroyed at once by fire from heaven: or it may be rendered, "the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom" F16; though the men of Sodom were great sinners, the Jews were greater, their sins being more aggravated; to this agrees the Targum, which renders the word "sin", and paraphrases the words following thus,

``and there dwelt not in her prophets to prophesy unto her, and turn her by repentance;''
as the Jews had, and therefore their sin was the greater; both senses are true, and the one is the foundation of the other; but the first seems best to agree with what follows: that was overthrown as in a moment;
by a shower of fire from heaven, which consumed it at once; whereas the destruction of Jerusalem was a lingering one, through a long and tedious siege; the inhabitants were gradually wasted and consumed by famine, pestilence, and sword, and so their punishment greater than Sodom's: and no hand stayed on her;
that is, on Sodom; the hand of God was immediately upon her, and dispatched her at once, but not the hands of men; as the hands of the Chaldeans were upon the Jews, afflicting and distressing them a long time, which made their ease the worse.
FOOTNOTES:

F16 (tajxm) ----(Nwe ldgyw) "et ingens fuit iniquitas--prae peccato", Montanus; "et major extitit pravitas--prae peccato", Cocceius. So V. L.
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Klagelieder 4:6 In-Context

4 Die Zunge des Säuglings klebt vor Durst an seinem Gaumen; die Kinder fordern Brot, niemand bricht es ihnen.
5 Die von Leckerbissen aßen, verschmachten auf den Straßen; die auf Karmesin getragen wurden, liegen auf Misthaufen.
6 Und die Schuld der Tochter meines Volkes ist größer geworden als die Sünde Sodoms, welches plötzlich umgekehrt wurde, ohne daß Hände dabei tätig waren.
7 Ihre Fürsten waren reiner als Schnee, weißer als Milch; röter waren sie am Leibe als Korallen, wie Saphir ihre Gestalt.
8 Dunkler als Schwärze ist ihr Aussehen, man erkennt sie nicht auf den Straßen; ihre Haut klebt an ihrem Gebein, ist dürr geworden wie Holz.
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