Lamentaciones 1
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1 ¡Cómo ha quedado sola la ciudad que estaba llena de gente! La que era grande entre las naciones se ha vuelto como viuda; la princesa entre las provincias ha quedado sometida a trabajos forzados. 2 Llora amargamente de noche y sus lágrimas corren por sus mejillas. Ninguno de sus amantes la consuela; todos sus amigos la han traicionado y se han convertido en sus enemigos. 3 Judá ha ido al destierro, afligida y sometida a dura servidumbre. Habita entre las naciones sin hallar descanso; todos sus perseguidores la alcanzaron entre las estrechuras. 4 Los caminos de Sion están de luto, porque nadie viene a las fiestas solemnes. Todas sus puertas están desoladas; sus sacerdotes gimen, sus vírgenes están afligidas y ella sufre amargamente. 5 Sus adversarios se han convertido en sus amos y sus enemigos prosperan, porque Jehová la ha afligido por sus muchas rebeliones. Sus pequeños han ido al cautiverio delante del adversario. 6 Todo el esplendor se ha ido de la hija de Sion. Sus jefes son como ciervos que no encuentran pasto; caminan sin fuerzas delante del perseguidor. 7 En los días de su aflicción y de su vagar, Jerusalén recuerda todos los tesoros que tenía desde los tiempos antiguos. Cuando su pueblo cayó en manos del adversario, nadie la ayudó. Sus adversarios la vieron y se burlaron de su ruina. 8 Jerusalén ha pecado gravemente; por eso se ha vuelto impura. Todos los que la honraban la desprecian, porque han visto su desnudez. Ella misma gime y se vuelve de espaldas. 9 Lleva su impureza en sus faldas y no pensó en su fin. Ha caído de manera sorprendente y nadie la consuela. «Mira, Jehová, mi aflicción, porque el enemigo se ha engrandecido». 10 El adversario ha extendido su mano sobre todos sus tesoros. Ella ha visto a las naciones entrar en su santuario, a aquellas a las que tú habías ordenado que no entraran en tu asamblea. 11 Todo su pueblo gime en busca de pan; han entregado sus tesoros a cambio de comida para mantenerse con vida. «Mira, Jehová, y observa cómo soy despreciada. 12 ¿No les importa, a todos ustedes que pasan por el camino? Miren y vean si hay dolor como mi dolor, el que me ha sido infligido, con el que Jehová me afligió el día de su ardiente ira. 13 Desde lo alto envió fuego que dominó mis huesos. Tendió una red a mis pies y me hizo retroceder; me dejó desolada y desfallecida todo el día. 14 Con su mano ha atado el yugo de mis rebeliones; estas se entretejen y suben sobre mi cuello. Ha debilitado mis fuerzas; el Señor me ha entregado en manos contra las que no puedo resistir. 15 El Señor ha rechazado a todos mis guerreros en medio de mí; ha convocado contra mí una asamblea para quebrantar a mis jóvenes. El Señor ha pisoteado a la virgen hija de Judá como en un lagar. 16 Por estas cosas lloro; mis ojos, mis ojos derraman lágrimas, porque está lejos de mí quien me consuele y reanime mi alma. Mis hijos están desolados, porque el enemigo ha prevalecido». 17 Sion extiende sus manos y nadie la consuela. Jehová ha ordenado contra Jacob que sus vecinos sean sus adversarios; Jerusalén se ha vuelto impura en medio de ellos. 18 «Jehová es justo, porque me rebelé contra su palabra. Escuchen, por favor, todos los pueblos, y vean mi dolor: mis vírgenes y mis jóvenes han ido al cautiverio. 19 Llamé a mis amantes, pero ellos me engañaron. Mis sacerdotes y mis ancianos murieron en la ciudad mientras buscaban alimento para mantenerse con vida. 20 Mira, Jehová, estoy angustiada; mis entrañas hierven y mi corazón se revuelve dentro de mí, porque he sido muy rebelde. Afuera, la espada me deja sin hijos; dentro de la casa, es como la muerte. 21 Han oído mis gemidos, pero nadie me consuela. Todos mis enemigos han oído mi desgracia y se alegran de que tú lo hayas hecho. ¡Trae el día que has anunciado, para que sean como yo! 22 Que toda su maldad llegue a tu presencia; trátalos como me has tratado por todas mis rebeliones. Porque son muchos mis gemidos y mi corazón desfallece».
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Lamentaciones 1 — Introducción
INTRODUCTION
In the Hebrew Bible these Elegies of Jeremiah, five in number, are placed among the Chetuvim, or "Holy Writings" ("the Psalms," &c., Lu 24:44), between Ruth and Ecclesiastes. But though in classification of compositions it belongs to the Chetuvim, it probably followed the prophecies of Jeremiah originally. For thus alone can we account for the prophetical books being enumerated by Josephus [Against Apion, 1.1.8] as thirteen: he must have reckoned Jeremiah and Lamentations as one book, as also Judges and Ruth, the two books of Samuel, &c., Ezra and Nehemiah. The Lamentations naturally follow the book which sets forth the circumstances forming the subject of the Elegies. Similar lamentations occur in 2Sa 1:19, &c.; 3:33. The Jews read it in their synagogues on the ninth of the month Ab, which is a fast for the destruction of their holy city. As in 2Ch 35:25, "lamentations" are said to have been "written" by Jeremiah on the death of Josiah, besides it having been made "an ordinance in Israel" that "singing women" should "speak" of that king in lamentations; Josephus [Antiquities, 10.5.1], Jerome, &c., thought that they are contained in the present collection. But plainly the subject here is the overthrow of the Jewish city and people, as the Septuagint expressly states in an introductory verse to their version. The probability is that there is embodied in these Lamentations much of the language of Jeremiah's original Elegy on Josiah, as 2Ch 35:25 states; but it is now applied to the more universal calamity of the whole state, of which Josiah's sad death was the forerunner. Thus La 4:20, originally applied to Josiah, was "written," in its subsequent reference, not so much of him, as of the throne of Judah in general, the last representative of which, Zedekiah, had just been carried away. The language, which is true of good Josiah, is too strong in favor of Zedekiah, except when viewed as representative of the crown in general. It was natural to embody the language of the Elegy on Josiah in the more general lamentations, as his death was the presage of the last disaster that overthrew the throne and state.
The title more frequently given by the Jews to these Elegies is, "How" (Hebrew, Eechah), from the first word, as the Pentateuch is similarly called by the first Hebrew word of Ge 1:1. The Septuagint calls it "Lamentations," from which we derive the name. It refers not merely to the events which occurred at the capture of the city, but to the sufferings of the citizens (the penalty of national sin) from the very beginning of the siege; and perhaps from before it, under Manasseh and Josiah (2Ch 33:11; 35:20-25); under Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah (2Ch 36:3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, &c.). Lowth says, "Every letter is written with a tear, every word the sound of a broken heart." The style is midway between the simple elevation of prophetic writing and the loftier rhythm of Moses, David, and Habakkuk. Terse conciseness marks the Hebrew original, notwithstanding Jeremiah's diffuseness in his other writings. The Elegies are grouped in stanzas as they arose in his mind, without any artificial system of arrangement as to the thoughts. The five Elegies are acrostic: each is divided into twenty-two stanzas or verses. In the first three Elegies the stanzas consist of triplets of lines (excepting La 1:7; 2:19, which contain each four lines) each beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order (twenty-two in number). In three instances (La 2:16, 17; 3:46-51; 4:16, 17) two letters are transposed. In the third Elegy, each line of the three forming every stanza begins with the same letter. The stanzas in the fourth and fifth Elegies consist of two lines each. The fifth Elegy, though having twenty-two stanzas (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet), just as the first four, yet is not alphabetical; and its lines are shorter than those of the others, which are longer than are found in other Hebrew poems, and contain twelve syllables, marked by a cæsura about the middle, dividing them into two somewhat unequal parts. The alphabetical arrangement was adopted originally to assist the memory. Grotius thinks the reason for the inversion of two of the Hebrew letters in La 2:16, 17; 3:46-51; 4:16, 17, is that the Chaldeans, like the Arabians, used a different order from the Hebrews; in the first Elegy, Jeremiah speaks as a Hebrew, in the following ones, as one subject to the Chaldeans. This is doubtful.
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CHAPTER (ELEGY) 1
Aleph.
1. how is she ... widow! she that was great, &c.--English Version is according to the accents. But the members of each sentence are better balanced in antithesis, thus, "how is she that was great among the nations become as a widow! (how) she who was princess among the provinces (that is, she who ruled over the surrounding provinces from the Nile to the Euphrates, Ge 15:18; 1Ki 4:21; 2Ch 9:26; Ezr 4:20) become tributary!" [Maurer].
sit--on the ground; the posture of mourners (La 2:10; Ezr 9:3). The coin struck on the taking of Jerusalem by Titus, representing Judea as a female sitting solitary under a palm tree, with the inscription, Judæa Capta, singularly corresponds to the image here; the language therefore must be prophetical of her state subsequent to Titus, as well as referring retrospectively to her Babylonian captivity.
Beth.
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2. in the night--even in the night, the period of rest and oblivion of griefs (Job 7:3).
lovers ... friends--the heathen states allied to Judah, and their idols. The idols whom she "loved" (Jr 2:20-25) could not comfort her. Her former allies would not: nay, some "treacherously" joined her enemies against her (2Ki 24:2, 7; Psa 137:7).
Gimel.
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3. (Jr 52:27).
because of great servitude--that is, in a state "of great servitude," endured from the Chaldeans. "Because" is made by Vatablus indicative of the cause of her captivity; namely, her having "afflicted" and unjustly brought into "servitude" the manumitted bond-servants (Jr 34:8-22). Maurer explains it, "Judah has left her land (not literally 'gone into captivity') because of the yoke imposed on it by Nebuchadnezzar."
overtook her between ... straits--image from robbers, who in the East intercept travellers at the narrow passes in hilly regions.
Daleth.
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4. feasts--the passover, pentecost (or the feast of weeks), and the feast of tabernacles.
gates--once the place of concourse.
He.
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6. beauty ... departed--her temple, throne, and priesthood.
harts that find no pasture--an animal timid and fleet, especially when seeking and not able to "find pasture."
Zain.
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7. remembered--rather, "remembers," now, in her afflicted state. In the days of her prosperity she did not appreciate, as she ought, the favors of God to her. Now, awakening out of her past lethargy, she feels from what high privileges she has fallen.
when her people fell, &c.--that is, after which days of prosperity "her people fell."
mock at her sabbaths--The heathen used to mock at the Jews' Sabbath, as showing their idleness, and term them Sabbatarians [Martial, 4.4]. Now, said they ironically, ye may keep a continuous Sabbath. So God appointed the length of the captivity (seventy years) to be exactly that of the sum of the Sabbaths in the four hundred ninety years in which the land was denied its Sabbaths (Le 26:33-35). Maurer translates it "ruin." But English Version better expresses the point of their "mocking," namely, their involuntary "Sabbaths," that is, the cessation of all national movements. A fourth line is added in this stanza, whereas in all the others there are but three. So in La 2:19.
Cheth.
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8. (1Ki 8:46).
is removed--as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. So La 1:17; Le 12:2; 15:19, &c.
her nakedness--They have treated her as contumeliously as courtesans from whom their clothes are stripped.
turneth backward--as modest women do from shame, that is, she is cast down from all hope of restoration [Calvin].
Teth.
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9. Continuation of the image in La 1:8. Her ignominy and misery cannot be concealed but are apparent to all, as if a woman were suffering under such a flow as to reach the end of her skirts.
remembereth not ... last end--(De 32:29; Is 47:7). She forgot how fatal must be the end of her iniquity. Or, as the words following imply: She, in despair, cannot lift herself up to lay hold of God's promises as to her "latter end" [Calvin].
wonderfully--Hebrew, "wonders," that is, with amazing dejection.
O Lord, behold--Judah here breaks in, speaking for herself.
for the enemy hath magnified himself--What might seem ground for despair, the elated insulting of the enemy, is rather ground for good hope.
Jod.
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10. for--surely she hath seen, &c.
heathen ... command ... not enter ... congregation--for instance, the Ammonites and Moabites (De 23:3; Ne 13:1, 2). If the heathen, as such, were not allowed to enter the sanctuary for worship, much less were they allowed to enter in order to rob and destroy.
Caph.
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12. The pathetic appeal of Jerusalem, not only to her neighbors, but even to the strangers "passing by," as her sorrow is such as should excite the compassion even of those unconnected with her. She here prefigures Christ, whom the language is prophetically made to suit, more than Jerusalem. Compare Israel, that is, Messiah, Is 49:3. Compare with "pass by," Mt 27:39; Mr 15:29. As to Jerusalem, Da 9:12. M AURER, from the Arabic idiom, translates, "do not go off on your way," that is, stop, whoever ye are that pass by. English Version is simpler.
Mem.
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13. bones--a fire which not only consumes the skin and flesh, but penetrates even to my "bones" (that is, my vital powers).
prevaileth against--not as Rosenmuller, "He (Jehovah) hath broken them"; a sense not in the Hebrew.
net--(Eze 12:13); image from hunting wild beasts. He has so entangled me in His judgments that I cannot escape.
turned me back--so that I cannot go forward and get free from His meshes.
Nun.
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14. yoke ... is bound by his hand--(De 28:48). Metaphor from husbandmen, who, after they have bound the yoke to the neck of oxen, hold the rein firmly twisted round the hand. Thus the translation will be, "in His hand." Or else, "the yoke of my transgressions" (that is, of punishment for my transgressions) is held so fast fixed on me "by" God, that there is no loosening of it; thus English Version, "by His hand."
wreathed--My sins are like the withes entwined about the neck to fasten the yoke to.
into their hands, from whom--into the hands of those, from whom, &c. Maurer translates, "before whom I am not able to stand."
Samech.
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15. trodden, &c.--Maurer, from Syriac root, translates, "cast away"; so 2Ki 23:27. But Psa 119:118, supports English Version.
in ... midst of me--They fell not on the battlefield, but in the heart of the city; a sign of the divine wrath.
assembly--the collected forces of Babylon; a very different "assembly" from the solemn ones which once met at Jerusalem on the great feasts. The Hebrew means, literally, such a solemn "assembly" or feast (compare La 2:22).
trodden ... virgin ... in a wine-press--hath forced her blood to burst forth, as the red wine from the grapes trodden in the press (Is 63:3; Re 14:19, 20; 19:15).
Ain.
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20. bowels ... troubled--(Job 30:27; Is 16:11; Jr 4:19; 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame.
heart ... turned--(Ho 11:8); is agitated or fluttered.
abroad ... sword ... at home ... as death--(De 32:25; Eze 7:15). The "as" does not modify, but intensifies. "Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home as it were death itself" (personified), in the form of famine and pestilence (2Ki 25:3; Jr 14:18; 52:6). So Ha 2:5, "as death" [Michaelis].
Schin.
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21. they are glad that thou hast done it--because they thought that therefore Judah is irretrievably ruined (Jr 40:3).
the day ... called--(but) thou wilt bring on them the day of calamity which thou hast announced, namely, by the prophets (Jr 50:1-46; 48:27).
like ... me--in calamities (Psa 137:8, 9; Jr 51:25, &c.).
Tau.
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22. Such prayers against foes are lawful, if the foe be an enemy of God, and if our concern be not for our own personal feeling, but for the glory of God and the welfare of His people.
come before thee--so Re 16:19, "Babylon came in remembrance before God" (compare Psa 109:15).
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