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Lamentations
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How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. See also: Psalms 132:71 Chronicles 28:2Revelation 12:7-9The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes. See also: Lamentations 2:17Lamentations 3:43Psalms 89:39-40He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around. See also: Psalms 74:11Isaiah 42:25Psalms 75:10He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire. See also: Jeremiah 7:20Isaiah 42:25Job 6:4The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah. See also: Lamentations 2:2Jeremiah 30:142 Kings 25:9He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest. See also: Lamentations 1:4Zephaniah 3:18Lamentations 4:16The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the LORD’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly. See also: Amos 2:5Psalms 74:3-8Ezekiel 24:21The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together. See also: 2 Kings 21:13Isaiah 3:26Isaiah 34:11Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from the LORD. See also: Ezekiel 7:26Hosea 3:42 Chronicles 15:3The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. See also: Isaiah 3:26Isaiah 15:3Job 2:12-13My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city. See also: Lamentations 1:20Lamentations 1:16Jeremiah 4:19They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom. See also: Isaiah 53:12Ezekiel 30:24What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you? See also: Lamentations 1:12Jeremiah 8:222 Samuel 5:20Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment. See also: Isaiah 58:1Jeremiah 5:31Ezekiel 22:28All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?” See also: Psalms 48:2Jeremiah 18:16Ezekiel 25:6All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.” See also: Psalms 35:21Psalms 37:12Lamentations 3:46The LORD has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries. See also: Ezekiel 5:11Psalms 89:42Ezekiel 7:8-9Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest. See also: Psalms 119:145Jeremiah 9:1Lamentations 2:8Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. See also: Psalms 62:8Psalms 119:147-148Isaiah 26:9“Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? See also: Lamentations 4:10Jeremiah 19:9Psalms 78:64“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied. See also: Zechariah 11:62 Chronicles 36:17Jeremiah 13:14“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up. See also: Psalms 31:13Jeremiah 6:25Isaiah 24:17-18
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Lamentations 2:1
Ver. 1. Obscurity. He continues to bewail the misery of Jerusalem. --- Heaven, the highest glory.
Is. xiv. 12. --- Stool; the temple, and the land. The ark fell not into the hands of the enemy. C. ---
The punishment which the Lord permits, is justly ascribed to Him. W.
↑ 1Lamentations 2:2
Ver. 2. Unclean, or treated it as such. C. --- Sept. "he hath accounted profane the kings." H. ---
Joakim, Jechonias, Sedecias, and the royal family, were exposed to the greatest ignominy and sufferings. C.
↑ 2Lamentations 2:3
Ver. 3. Horn: beauty and power, (H.) the two kingdoms, the fortresses, (C.) and all their strength, denoted by horns. W. --- Hand; refusing us protection, and aiding the Chaldees.
↑ 3Lamentations 2:5
Ver. 5. Women, suffering them to be abused. C. v. 11. 13.
↑ 5Lamentations 2:6
Ver. 6. Tent: the temple, with the same indifference as if it had been a hut, built to guard the fruit of a garden. Is. v. 5. Ps. lxxix. 13. --- Sabbaths. The Jews rested, but could offer no sacrifices in captivity. --- Priest. Saraias was slain, and Sedecias imprisoned, &c. C. lii. 10. C.
↑ 6Lamentations 2:7
Ver. 7. Cursed, or suffered it to be polluted, (W.) as he looked on it with horror, after it had been profaned by Achaz, &c. --- Towers. Sept. "palaces;" bareon. ---
Feast. What a contrast! The temple used to resound with songs of praise and music: the Chaldees fill it with insolent shouts of victory.
↑ 7Lamentations 2:8
Ver. 8. Line, to level it with the ground, (Is. xxxiv. 11. C.) or to treat it with just severity. Theod.
--- Bulwark. Lit. "the first wall," (H.) or ditch, lined with palisades. Alexander ordered the towers to be levelled, and the horses' manes to be cut, when Hephæstion died, to denote the general sorrow.
↑ 8Lamentations 2:9
Ver. 9. Among, as slaves, or in prison. --- Law has been neglected; and now it cannot be observed, as to the ceremonial part. There are no public instructions. --- No vision. When Jeremias was consulted, he had to pray for ten days. C. xlii. 7.
↑ 9Lamentations 2:10
Ver. 10. Ancients, even magistrates. C. --- Canitiem multo deformat pulvere.
Æn. x.
↑ 10Lamentations 2:11
Ver. 11. Earth, by an overflowing of the bile, occasioned by grief. Job xvi. 14. C.
↑ 11Lamentations 2:13
Ver. 13. Sea. This is an hyperbole, to express the greatness of sorrow, as the sea surpasses all other waters. W.
↑ 13Lamentations 2:14
Ver. 14. Revelations. Heb. Masoth, "burdens" for the enemy. This sentence ought to come before and they, &c. as it is in the Vulg. H.
↑ 14Lamentations 2:16
Ver. 16. Mouth, with scorn. Is. lvii. 4. Ps. xxxiv. 21.
↑ 16Lamentations 2:17
Ver. 17. Old, by Moses, (Deut. xxviii. 15. 49. Lev. xxvi. 14.) Micheas, (C. xxvi.
18.) Holda, &c.
C.
↑ 17Lamentations 2:18
Ver. 18. Upon. Heb. and Sept. "O wall," &c. v. 8. H.
↑ 18Lamentations 2:19
Ver. 19. Watches. Jerusalem is here represented in the midst of danger and misery. C.
↑ 19Lamentations 2:20
Ver. 20. Dealt. Lit. "gathered grapes." C. i. 12. H. --- Long; quite small. Ps.
xxxviii. 9. This has been denounced, C. xix. 9. Deut. xxviii. 53. C. It took place at Samaria, and in the last siege of Jerusalem, (Jos. Bel. vii. and viii. W.) as well as at this time. H.
↑ 20Lamentations 2:21
Ver. 21. Killed. Lit. "stricken" (H.) with unusual severity. W.
↑ 21Lamentations 2:22
Ver. 22. About. The troops of the enemy resemble those multitudes, which come from all parts to Jerusalem. Many kings could not raise such an army. C.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses