7Jerusalem 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 fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
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We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. …
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? …
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Those that have any disposition to weep with those that weep , one would think, should scarcely be able to refrain from tears at the reading of these verses, so very pathetic are the lamentations here. I. The miseries of Jerusalem are here complained of as very pressing and by many circumstances very much aggravated. Let us take a view of these miseries. 1. As to their civil state. (1.) A city tha…
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