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Selected Verse: Lamentations 2:22 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 2:22 |
Strong Concordance |
Thou hast called [07121] as in a solemn [04150] day [03117] my terrors [04032] round about [05439], so that in the day [03117] of the LORD'S [03068] anger [0639] none escaped [06412] nor remained [08300]: those that I have swaddled [02946] and brought up [07235] hath mine enemy [0341] consumed [03615]. |
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King James |
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Thou hast called as in . . . solemn day . . . terrors--Thou hast summoned my enemies against me from all quarters, just as multitudes used to be convened to Jerusalem, on the solemn feast days. The objects, for which the enemies and the festal multitude respectively met, formed a sad contrast. Compare Lam 1:15 : "called an assembly against me."
Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (Lam 3:22, Lam 3:40-47). The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Thou hast called as in a solemn day - i. e. "Thou" callest "like a feast day," i. e. like the proclaiming of a festival.
My terrors round about - The prophet's watch-word (Jer 6:25 note). God now proclaims what Jeremiah had so often called out before, "Magor-missabib." On every side were conquering Chaldaeans. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The imperf. תּקרא has perhaps bee chosen merely for the sake of the alphabetic arrangement, because the description is still continued, and the idea of custom (wont) or repetition is not very suitable in the present instance. "Thou summonest, as for a feast-day (viz., for the enemy, cf. Lam 1:15), all my terrors round about." מגוּרי מסּביב is to be explained in conformity with the formula מגור מסּביב, so frequent in Jeremiah (Jer 6:25; Jer 20:4, Jer 20:10, etc.): מגוּרי is therefore to be derived from מגור, but not to be confined in its reference to the enemy (as in the Vulgate, qui terrent); it is rather to be understood as applying to all the terrible powers that had come upon Judah, - sword, famine, plagues (cf. Lam 1:20). On the ground that מגוּרים elsewhere means wandering, pilgrimage, and that, moreover, the sing. מגור in Psa 55:16 signifies a dwelling, Ewald translates the expression in the text, "my hamlets round about," understanding by that the inhabitants of the defenceless country towns and villages, which stand to the capital that gave them its protection in the relation of settlers in its neighbourhood (lxx πάροικοι). According to this view, the verse alludes to an important event which took place in those days of the siege, when all the inhabitants of the country towns fled to the capital, thinking that a great festival was going to be held there, as on former occasions; but this became at last for them the great festival of death, when the city was taken. But the translation of the lxx is of no authority, since they have given a false rendering of מגור מסּביב also; and the whole explanation is so artificial and unnatural, that it needs no further refutation. Raschi, indeed, had previously explained מגוּרי to mean שכיני, vicinos meos, but added improbos, ut sese congregarent adversus me ad perdendum. Notwithstanding this, מגוּרים, "wandering" and "place of sojourn," cannot denote the country towns as distinguished from the capital; nor can the flight of the inhabitants of the low-lying regions into the capital be fitly called a summoning together of them by the Lord. The combination פּליט ושׂריד is used as in Jer 42:17; Jer 44:14. For טפּח, see on Lam 2:20. With the complaint that no one could escape the judgment, - that the enemy dared to murder even the children whom she Jerusalem had carefully nourished and brought up, - the poem concludes, like the first, with deep sorrow, regarding which all attempts at comfort are quite unavailing (Gerlach). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| My terrors - As my people were wont to be called together from all parts in a solemn day, so now my terrible enemies, or terrible things are by thee called together. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thou hast called as in a solemn day - It is by thy influence alone that so many enemies are called together at one time; and they have so hemmed us in that none could escape, and none remained unslain or uncaptivated, Perhaps the figure is the collecting of the people in Jerusalem on one of the solemn annual festivals. God has called terrors together to feast on Jerusalem, similar to the convocation of the people from all parts of the land to one of those annual festivals. The indiscriminate slaughter of young and old, priest and prophet, all ranks and conditions, may be illustrated by the following verses from Lucan, which appear as if a translation of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first verses of this chapter: -
Nobilitas cum plebe perit; lateque vagatur
Ensis, et a nullo revocatum est pectore ferrum.
Stat cruor in Templis; multaque rubentia caede
Lubrica saxa madent. Nulli sua profuit aetas.
Non senes extremum piguit vergentibus annis
Praecipitasse diem; nec primo in limine vitae,
Infanti miseri nascentia rumpere fata.
Pharsal. lib. ii., 101.
"With what a slide devouring slaughter passed,
And swept promiscuous orders in her haste;
O'er noble and plebeian ranged the sword,
Nor pity nor remorse one pause afford!
The sliding streets with blood were clotted o'er,
And sacred temples stood in pools of gore.
The ruthless steel, impatient of delay,
Forbade the sire to linger out his day:
It struck the bending father to the earth,
And cropped the wailing infant at its birth."
Rowe. |
40 Let us search [02664] and try [02713] our ways [01870], and turn again [07725] to the LORD [03068].
41 Let us lift up [05375] our heart [03824] with our hands [03709] unto God [0410] in the heavens [08064].
42 We [05168] have transgressed [06586] and have rebelled [04784]: thou hast not pardoned [05545].
43 Thou hast covered [05526] with anger [0639], and persecuted [07291] us: thou hast slain [02026], thou hast not pitied [02550].
44 Thou hast covered [05526] thyself with a cloud [06051], that our prayer [08605] should not pass through [05674].
45 Thou hast made [07760] us as the offscouring [05501] and refuse [03973] in the midst [07130] of the people [05971].
46 All our enemies [0341] have opened [06475] their mouths [06310] against us.
47 Fear [06343] and a snare [06354] is come upon us, desolation [07612] and destruction [07667].
22 It is of the LORD'S [03068] mercies [02617] that we are not consumed [08552], because his compassions [07356] fail [03615] not.
15 The Lord [0136] hath trodden under foot [05541] all my mighty [047] men in the midst [07130] of me: he hath called [07121] an assembly [04150] against me to crush [07665] my young men [0970]: the Lord [0136] hath trodden [01869] the virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Judah [03063], as in a winepress [01660].
25 Go not forth [03318] into the field [07704], nor walk [03212] by the way [01870]; for the sword [02719] of the enemy [0341] and fear [04032] is on every side [05439].
20 Behold [07200], O LORD [03068], and consider [05027] to whom thou hast done [05953] this [03541]. Shall the women [0802] eat [0398] their fruit [06529], and children [05768] of a span long [02949]? shall the priest [03548] and the prophet [05030] be slain [02026] in the sanctuary [04720] of the Lord [0136]?
14 So that none of the remnant [07611] of Judah [03063], which are gone [0935] into the land [0776] of Egypt [04714] to sojourn [01481] there, shall escape [06412] or remain [08300], that they should return [07725] into the land [0776] of Judah [03063], to the which they have [05375] a desire [05315] to return [07725] to dwell [03427] there: for none shall return [07725] but such as shall escape [06405].
17 So shall it be with all the men [0582] that set [07760] their faces [06440] to go [0935] into Egypt [04714] to sojourn [01481] there; they shall die [04191] by the sword [02719], by the famine [07458], and by the pestilence [01698]: and none of them shall remain [08300] or escape [06412] from [06440] the evil [07451] that I will bring [0935] upon them.
16 As for me, I will call [07121] upon God [0430]; and the LORD [03068] shall save [03467] me.
20 Behold [07200], O LORD [03068]; for I am in distress [06887]: my bowels [04578] are troubled [02560]; mine heart [03820] is turned [02015] within [07130] me; for I have grievously [04784] rebelled [04784]: abroad [02351] the sword [02719] bereaveth [07921], at home [01004] there is as death [04194].
10 For I heard [08085] the defaming [01681] of many [07227], fear [04032] on every side [05439]. Report [05046], say they, and we will report [05046] it. All my familiars [0582] [07965] watched [08104] for my halting [06763] [06761], saying, Peradventure he will be enticed [06601], and we shall prevail [03201] against him, and we shall take [03947] our revenge [05360] on him.
4 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Behold, I will make [05414] thee a terror [04032] to thyself, and to all thy friends [0157]: and they shall fall [05307] by the sword [02719] of their enemies [0341], and thine eyes [05869] shall behold [07200] it: and I will give [05414] all Judah [03063] into the hand [03027] of the king [04428] of Babylon [0894], and he shall carry them captive [01540] into Babylon [0894], and shall slay [05221] them with the sword [02719].
25 Go not forth [03318] into the field [07704], nor walk [03212] by the way [01870]; for the sword [02719] of the enemy [0341] and fear [04032] is on every side [05439].
15 The Lord [0136] hath trodden under foot [05541] all my mighty [047] men in the midst [07130] of me: he hath called [07121] an assembly [04150] against me to crush [07665] my young men [0970]: the Lord [0136] hath trodden [01869] the virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Judah [03063], as in a winepress [01660].