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Selected Verse: Lamentations 1:19 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
La 1:19	Strong Concordance	I called [07121] for my lovers [0157], but they deceived [07411] me: my priests [03548] and mine elders [02205] gave up the ghost [01478] in the city [05892], while they sought [01245] their meat [0400] to relieve [07725] their souls [05315].
	King James	I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
lovers-- (Lam 1:2; Jer 30:14). elders--in dignity, not merely age. sought . . . meat--Their dignity did not exempt them from having to go and seek bread (Lam 1:11).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

lovers-- (Lam 1:2; Jer 30:14).

elders--in dignity, not merely age.

sought . . . meat--Their dignity did not exempt them from having to go and seek bread (Lam 1:11).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
I called for ... - Rather, to "my lovers." While they sought their meat - literally, "for they sought food for themselves to revive their souls." Complete the sense by adding, "and found none."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

I called for ... - Rather, to "my lovers."

While they sought their meat - literally, "for they sought food for themselves to revive their souls." Complete the sense by adding, "and found none."

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Lam 1:19 is not a continuation of the direct address to the nations, to whom she complains of her distress, but merely a complaint to God regarding the sorrow she endures. The perfects קראתי, רמּוּני, are not preterites, and thus are not to be referred to the past, as if complaint were made that, in the time of need, the lovers of Jerusalem forsook her; they rather indicate accomplished facts, whose consequences reach down to the present time. It was not merely in former times, during the siege, that Jerusalem called to her friends for help; but even now she still calls, that she may be comforted by them, yet all in vain. Her friends have deceived her, i.e., shamefully disappointed her expectations. From those who are connected with her, too, she can expect neither comfort nor counsel. The priests and the elders, as the helpers and advisers of the city, - the former as representing the community before God, and being the medium of His grace, the latter as being leaders in civil matters, - pined away ( ,גּועexspirare; here, to pine away through hunger, and expire). כּי is a temporal particle: "when they were seeking for bread" to prolong their life ('השׁיב נ as in Lam 1:11). The lxx have added καὶ οὐχ ευ, which Thenius is inclined to regard as a portion of the original text; but it is very evidently a mere conjecture from the context, and becomes superfluous when כּי ne is taken as a particle of time.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Lam 1:19 is not a continuation of the direct address to the nations, to whom she complains of her distress, but merely a complaint to God regarding the sorrow she endures. The perfects קראתי, רמּוּני, are not preterites, and thus are not to be referred to the past, as if complaint were made that, in the time of need, the lovers of Jerusalem forsook her; they rather indicate accomplished facts, whose consequences reach down to the present time. It was not merely in former times, during the siege, that Jerusalem called to her friends for help; but even now she still calls, that she may be comforted by them, yet all in vain. Her friends have deceived her, i.e., shamefully disappointed her expectations. From those who are connected with her, too, she can expect neither comfort nor counsel. The priests and the elders, as the helpers and advisers of the city, - the former as representing the community before God, and being the medium of His grace, the latter as being leaders in civil matters, - pined away ( ,גּועexspirare; here, to pine away through hunger, and expire). כּי is a temporal particle: "when they were seeking for bread" to prolong their life ('השׁיב נ as in Lam 1:11). The lxx have added καὶ οὐχ ευ, which Thenius is inclined to regard as a portion of the original text; but it is very evidently a mere conjecture from the context, and becomes superfluous when כּי ne is taken as a particle of time.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Deceived - They did not answer my expectation.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Deceived - They did not answer my expectation.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
I called for my lovers - My allies; the Egyptians and others.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

I called for my lovers - My allies; the Egyptians and others.

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