Summary Lamentations 5 of The Book of Lamentations consists of verses of one line only, and is strikingly similar to a number of Psalms. Gunkel suggested that Lamentations 5 'may have been sung during one of the festivals at the ruins of Jerusalem, like the ones mentioned in Zech 7' (98...
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He hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; God had gone on in destroying them: and had made their walls and ramparts feeble, and to shake like a man under some languishing distemper, that had no strength left. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe Lord hath purposed to destroy ...
The Lamentations of Jeremiah, Old Testament book belonging to the third section of the biblical canon, known as the Ketuvim, or Writings. In the Hebrew Bible, Lamentations stands with Ruth, the Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, and Esther and with them make
The Polel of the verb עָלַל occurs ten times in the Bible, appearing in agricultural passages for gleaning or some other harvest activity and also in military passages. Jer 6:9 plays on this by comparing an attack to gleaning. The relationship between the meaning in the two...
Hebrew BibleIsaiahJerusalemSummary This chapter is an extended acrostic based on the twenty-two letters of the alef-bet (Hebrew alphabet). The book of Lamentations has attracted the attention of many composers. One explanation for their interest is the demand for liturgical settings of Lamentations,...
In chapter 3, not only the first but all three lines of each strophe begin with the appropriate letter of the alphabet (cf. Ps. 119). An odd detail is that, except in the first poem, the sequence is reversed. For a summary of suggested explanations of the adoption of so artificial a...
The Polel of the verb עָלַל occurs ten times in the Bible, appearing in agricultural passages for gleaning or some other harvest activity and also in military passages. Jer 6:9 plays on this by comparing an attack to gleaning. The relationship between the meaning in the two...
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The Polel of the verb עָלַל occurs ten times in the Bible, appearing in agricultural passages for gleaning or some other harvest activity and also in military passages. Jer 6:9 plays on this by comparing an attack to gleaning. The relationship between the meaning in the two...