geneva Lamentations:1-5
geneva@Lamentations:1:1 @ How doth (note:)The prophet wonders at the great judgment of God, seeing Jerusalem, which was so strong and so full of people, to be now destroyed and desolate.(:note) the city sit desolate, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, Who had chief rule over many provinces and countries. [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become a slave!
geneva@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weepeth bitterly in the (note:)So that she takes no rest.(:note) night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her Meaning the Egyptians and Assyrians who promised help. lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
geneva@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah is gone into captivity because (note:)For her cruelty toward the poor and oppression of servants, (Jer_34:11).(:note) of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress.
geneva@Lamentations:1:4 @ The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come (note:)As they used to come up with mirth and joy, (Psa_42:4).(:note) to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.
geneva@Lamentations:1:5 @ Her adversaries (note:)That is, have rule over her, (Deu_28:41).(:note) are the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
geneva@Lamentations:1:6 @ And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are become (note:)As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage.(:note) like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
geneva@Lamentations:1:7 @ Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people (note:)In her misery she considered the great benefits and commodities that she had lost.(:note) fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her: the adversaries saw her, [and] mocked at her At her religion and serving of God, which was the greatest grief to the godly. sabbaths.
geneva@Lamentations:1:8 @ Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned, therefore shee is in derision: all that honoured her, despise her, because they haue seene her filthinesse: yea, she sigheth and turneth backeward.
geneva@Lamentations:1:9 @
geneva@Lamentations:1:10 @ The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom (note:)God forbids the Ammonites and Moabites to enter into the congregation of the Lord, and under them he comprehends all enemies, (Deu_23:3).(:note) thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.
geneva@Lamentations:1:11 @ All her people sigh and seeke their bread: they haue giuen their pleasant thinges for meate to refresh the soule: see, O Lorde, and consider: for I am become vile.
geneva@Lamentations:1:12 @ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any (note:)Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.(:note) sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
geneva@Lamentations:1:13 @ From above hath (note:)This declares that we should acknowledge God to be the author of all our afflictions to the intent that we might seek him for remedy.(:note) he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.
geneva@Lamentations:1:14 @ The (note:)My heavy sins are continually before his eyes as he that ties a thing to his hand for a reminder.(:note) yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are knit together, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise.
geneva@Lamentations:1:15 @ The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a (note:)He has trodden them underfoot as they tread grapes in the winepress.(:note) winepress.
geneva@Lamentations:1:16 @ For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.
geneva@Lamentations:1:17 @ Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] around him: Jerusalem is (note:)Who because of her pollution was separate from her husband, (Lev_15:19) and was abhorred for the time.(:note) as a menstruous woman among them.
geneva@Lamentations:1:18 @ The Lorde is righteous: for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorowe: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.
geneva@Lamentations:1:19 @ I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they (note:)That is, they died for hunger.(:note) sought their food to relieve their souls.
geneva@Lamentations:1:20 @ Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.
geneva@Lamentations:1:21 @ They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.
geneva@Lamentations:1:22 @
geneva@Lamentations:2:1 @ How hath the Lord (note:)That is, brought her from prosperity to adversity.(:note) covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from Has given her a most sore fall. heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his Alluding to the temple, or to the ark of the covenant, which was called the footstool of the Lord, because they would not set their minds so low, but lift up their heart toward the heavens. footstool in the day of his anger!
geneva@Lamentations:2:2 @ The Lord hath destroyed al the habitations of Iaakob, & not spared: he hath throwen downe in his wrath ye strong holds of the daughter of Iudah: he hath cast the downe to ye ground: he hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof.
geneva@Lamentations:2:3 @ He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the (note:)Meaning the glory and strength, as in (1Sa_2:1).(:note) horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his That is, his comfort which he was wont to send us, when our enemies oppressed us. right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth on every side.
geneva@Lamentations:2:4 @ He (note:)Showing that there is no remedy but destruction where God is the enemy.(:note) hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
geneva@Lamentations:2:5 @ The Lord was as an enemie: he hath deuoured Israel, and consumed all his palaces: hee hath destroyed his strong holdes, and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah lamentation and mourning.
geneva@Lamentations:2:6 @ For hee hath destroyed his Tabernacle, as a garden, hee hath destroyed his Congregation: the Lorde hath caused the feastes and Sabbathes to bee forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his wrath the King and the Priest.
geneva@Lamentations:2:7 @ The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a (note:)As the people were accustomed to praising God to the solemn feasts with a loud voice, so now the enemies blaspheme him with shouting and cry.(:note) noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
geneva@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart (note:)This is a figurative speech as that was, when he said the ways lamented, (Lam_1:4) meaning that this sorrow was so great that the insensible things had their part of it.(:note) and the wall to lament; they languished together.
geneva@Lamentations:2:9 @ Her gates are sunke to the grounde: he hath destroyed and broken her barres: her King and her princes are among the Gentiles: the Lawe is no more, neither can her Prophets receiue any vision from the Lord.
geneva@Lamentations:2:10 @ The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde, and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades: they haue girded them selues with sackecloth: the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.
geneva@Lamentations:2:11 @ Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.
geneva@Lamentations:2:12 @ They haue sayd to their mothers, Where is bread and drinke? when they swooned as the wounded in the streetes of the citie, and whe they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome.
geneva@Lamentations:2:13 @
geneva@Lamentations:2:14 @ Thy prophets have (note:)Because the false prophets called themselves seers, as the others were called, therefore he shows that they saw amiss because they did not reprove the people's faults, but flattered them in their sins, which was the cause of their destruction.(:note) seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
geneva@Lamentations:2:15 @ All that passe by the way, clap their hands at thee: they hisse and wagge their head vpon the daughter Ierusalem, saying, Is this the citie that men call, The perfection of beautie, and the ioye of the whole earth?
geneva@Lamentations:2:16 @ All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnashe the teeth, saying, Let vs deuoure it: certainely this is the day that we looked for: we haue founde and seene it.
geneva@Lamentations:2:17 @ The Lorde hath done that which he had purposed: he hath fulfilled his worde that he had determined of old time: he hath throwen downe, and not spared: hee hath caused thine enemie to reioyce ouer thee, and set vp the horne of thine aduersaries.
geneva@Lamentations:2:18 @ Their heart cryed vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: take thee no rest, neither let the apple of thine eye cease.
geneva@Lamentations:2:19 @ Arise, cry in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift vp thine handes towarde him for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streetes.
geneva@Lamentations:2:20 @ Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?
geneva@Lamentations:2:21 @ The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes: my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde: thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed and not spared.
geneva@Lamentations:2:22 @ Thou hast called as in a solemne daye my terrours rounde about, so that in the day of the Lordes wrath none escaped nor remained: those that I haue nourished and brought vp, hath mine enemie consumed.
geneva@Lamentations:3:1 @ I [am] the man [that] hath seen (note:)The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he declared the destruction of Jerusalem, as in (Jer_20:1-2).(:note) affliction by the rod of his wrath.
geneva@Lamentations:3:2 @ He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
geneva@Lamentations:3:3 @ Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
geneva@Lamentations:3:4 @ My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
geneva@Lamentations:3:5 @ He hath (note:)He speaks this as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diversity of words.(:note) built against me, and surrounded [me] with gall and labour.
geneva@Lamentations:3:6 @ He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
geneva@Lamentations:3:7 @ He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
geneva@Lamentations:3:8 @ Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (note:)This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not heard, which thing God uses so that they might pray more earnestly and often.(:note) prayer.
geneva@Lamentations:3:9 @ He hath (note:)And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.(:note) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
geneva@Lamentations:3:10 @
geneva@Lamentations:3:11 @ He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
geneva@Lamentations:3:12 @ He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.
geneva@Lamentations:3:13 @ Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
geneva@Lamentations:3:14 @ I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
geneva@Lamentations:3:15 @ He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (note:)With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense.(:note) wormwood.
geneva@Lamentations:3:16 @ He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
geneva@Lamentations:3:17 @ Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
geneva@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, My strength and my (note:)Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the victory.(:note) hope hath perished from the LORD:
geneva@Lamentations:3:19 @ Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
geneva@Lamentations:3:20 @ My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled (note:)He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.(:note) in me.
geneva@Lamentations:3:21 @ I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.
geneva@Lamentations:3:22 @ [It is of] the LORD'S (note:)Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, (Isa_1:9).(:note) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
geneva@Lamentations:3:23 @ [They are] new (note:)We feel your benefits daily.(:note) every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
geneva@Lamentations:3:24 @ The LORD [is] my (note:)The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as (Psa_16:5).(:note) portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
geneva@Lamentations:3:25 @ The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.
geneva@Lamentations:3:26 @ It is good both to trust, and to waite for the saluation of the Lord.
geneva@Lamentations:3:27 @ [It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his (note:)He shows that we can never begin too soon to be exercised under the cross, that when the afflictions grow greater, our patience also by experience may be stronger.(:note) youth.
geneva@Lamentations:3:28 @ He sitteth alone (note:)He murmurs not against God, but is patient.(:note) and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
geneva@Lamentations:3:29 @ He putteth his (note:)He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waits for comfort.(:note) mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
geneva@Lamentations:3:30 @ Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
geneva@Lamentations:3:31 @ For the Lord will not forsake for euer.
geneva@Lamentations:3:32 @ But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
geneva@Lamentations:3:33 @ For he doth not (note:)He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.(:note) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
geneva@Lamentations:3:34 @ In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
geneva@Lamentations:3:35 @ In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high,
geneva@Lamentations:3:36 @ To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord (note:)He does not delight in it.(:note) approveth not.
geneva@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord (note:)He shows that nothing is done without God's providence.(:note) commandeth [it] not?
geneva@Lamentations:3:38 @ Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not (note:)That is, adversity and prosperity, (Amo_3:6).(:note) evil and good?
geneva@Lamentations:3:39 @ Why doth a living (note:)When God afflicts him.(:note) man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
geneva@Lamentations:3:40 @ Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
geneva@Lamentations:3:41 @ Let us lift up (note:)That is, both hearts and hands: for else to lift up the hands is but hypocrisy.(:note) our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens.
geneva@Lamentations:3:42 @ We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
geneva@Lamentations:3:43 @ Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
geneva@Lamentations:3:44 @ Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
geneva@Lamentations:3:45 @ Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
geneva@Lamentations:3:46 @ All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.
geneva@Lamentations:3:47 @ Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.
geneva@Lamentations:3:48 @ Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
geneva@Lamentations:3:49 @ Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,
geneva@Lamentations:3:50 @ Till the Lorde looke downe, and beholde from heauen.
geneva@Lamentations:3:51 @ My eye (note:)I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people.(:note) affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
geneva@Lamentations:3:52 @ Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.
geneva@Lamentations:3:53 @ They have cut off my life (note:)Read (Jer_37:16) how he was in the miry dungeon.(:note) in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
geneva@Lamentations:3:54 @ Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
geneva@Lamentations:3:55 @ I called vpon thy Name, O Lorde, out of the lowe dungeon.
geneva@Lamentations:3:56 @ Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.
geneva@Lamentations:3:57 @ Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.
geneva@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my (note:)Meaning, the reason his life was in danger.(:note) soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
geneva@Lamentations:3:59 @ O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
geneva@Lamentations:3:60 @ Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.
geneva@Lamentations:3:61 @ Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
geneva@Lamentations:3:62 @ The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.
geneva@Lamentations:3:63 @ Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
geneva@Lamentations:3:64 @ Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.
geneva@Lamentations:3:65 @ Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.
geneva@Lamentations:3:66 @ Persecute with wrath & destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.
geneva@Lamentations:4:1 @ How is the (note:)By the gold he means the princes, as by the stones he understands the priests.(:note) gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
geneva@Lamentations:4:2 @ The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen (note:)Which are of small value and have no honour.(:note) pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
geneva@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the sea monsters (note:)Though the dragons are cruel, yet they pity their young, and nourish them, which Jerusalem does not do.(:note) draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the The women forsake their children as the ostrich does her eggs, (Job_39:17). ostriches in the wilderness.
geneva@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the sucking childe cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the yong children aske bread, but no man breaketh it vnto them.
geneva@Lamentations:4:5 @ They that did feede delicately, perish in the streetes: they that were brought vp in skarlet, embrace the dongue.
geneva@Lamentations:4:6 @ For the iniquitie of the daughter of my people is become greater then the sinne of Sodom, that was destroyed as in a moment, & none pitched campes against her.
geneva@Lamentations:4:7 @ Her Nazarites were purer then the snowe, & whiter then ye milke: they were more ruddie in bodie, then the redde precious stones; they were like polished saphir.
geneva@Lamentations:4:8 @ Their (note:)They who were before most in God's favour are now in greatest abomination to him.(:note) visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
geneva@Lamentations:4:9 @ [They that are] slain with the sword are better than [they that are] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [lack of] the (note:)For lack of food they pine away and consume.(:note) fruits of the field.
geneva@Lamentations:4:10 @ The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
geneva@Lamentations:4:11 @ The Lord hath accomplished his indignation: he hath powred out his fierce wrath, he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath deuoured the foundations thereof.
geneva@Lamentations:4:12 @ The Kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not haue beleeued that the aduersarie and the enemie should haue entred into the gates of Ierusalem:
geneva@Lamentations:4:13 @ For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of (note:)He means that these things are come to pass therefore, contrary to all men's expectations.(:note) her,
geneva@Lamentations:4:14 @ They have wandered [as] blind [men] (note:)Some refer this to the blind men who as they went, stumbled on the blood, of which the city was full.(:note) in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that Meaning the heathen who came to destroy them could not abide them. men could not touch their garments.
geneva@Lamentations:4:15 @ But they cried vnto them, Depart, ye polluted, depart, depart, touch not: therefore they fled away, and wandered: they haue sayd among the heathen, They shal no more dwell there.
geneva@Lamentations:4:16 @ The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no longer regard them: (note:)That is, the enemies.(:note) they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
geneva@Lamentations:4:17 @ As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for (note:)He shows two principal causes for their destruction: their cruelty and their vain confidence in man: for they trusted in the help of the Egyptians.(:note) a nation [that] could not save [us].
geneva@Lamentations:4:18 @ They hunt our steppes that we cannot goe in our streetes: our ende is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.
geneva@Lamentations:4:19 @ Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.
geneva@Lamentations:4:20 @ The (note:)Our king Josiah, in whom stood our hope of God's favour and on whom depended our state and life was slain, whom he calls anointed, because he was a figure of Christ.(:note) breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
geneva@Lamentations:4:21 @ Rejoice and be glad, (note:)This is spoken by derision.(:note) O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunk, and shalt make thyself naked.
geneva@Lamentations:4:22 @ The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he (note:)He comforts the Church because after seventy years their sorrows will have an end while the wicked would be tormented for ever.(:note) will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy sins.
geneva@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: (note:)This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others such as the poorest remained, and some went into Egypt and other places for comfort, though it seems that the prophet foreseeing their miseries to come, thus prayed.(:note) consider, and behold our reproach.
geneva@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
geneva@Lamentations:5:3 @ We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
geneva@Lamentations:5:4 @ We have drank our (note:)Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage.(:note) water for money; our wood is sold to us.
geneva@Lamentations:5:5 @ Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
geneva@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the (note:)We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submitted ourselves to them.(:note) hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
geneva@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne (note:)As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are guilty of the same sins are punished.(:note) their iniquities.
geneva@Lamentations:5:8 @ Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
geneva@Lamentations:5:9 @ We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword (note:)Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food.(:note) of the wilderness.
geneva@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
geneva@Lamentations:5:11 @ They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
geneva@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hung up by (note:)That is, by the enemies hand.(:note) their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
geneva@Lamentations:5:13 @ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under (note:)Their slavery was so great, that they were not able to abide it.(:note) the wood.
geneva@Lamentations:5:14 @ The elders have ceased from the (note:)There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.(:note) gate, the young men from their music.
geneva@Lamentations:5:15 @ The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
geneva@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
geneva@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our (note:)With weeping.(:note) eyes are dim.
geneva@Lamentations:5:18 @ Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
geneva@Lamentations:5:19 @ Thou, O LORD, remainest for (note:)And therefore your covenant and mercies can never fail.(:note) ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
geneva@Lamentations:5:20 @ Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
geneva@Lamentations:5:21 @
geneva@Lamentations:5:22 @ But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
geneva@Matthew:21:5 @ Tell ye the (note:)The city of Sion. This is a Hebrew idiom, common in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.(:note) daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
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