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THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Lamentations
Chapter Selection:

1:1a *

In chs. 1 and 2 the initial letter of each verse, consisting of three parts or lines, follows the alphabetical order.

1:5b adversaries, adversary

Or 'oppressor,' Tzar; so vers. 7, 10, 17: see Note o, Ps. 8:2, and Ps. 78:61.

1:5c head

See Deut. 28:44.

1:7d wanderings

Or 'miseries:' see ch. 3:19; Isa. 58:7.

1:7e into

Or 'by.'

1:7f ruin

Or 'cessation' or 'days of rest,' and see Lev. 26:43.

1:8g grievously

Lit. 'sinned a sin.'

1:11a, 1:19a soul

Or 'life.'

1:13b prevaileth

Or 'he causeth it to prevail.'

1:15c assembly

Or 'a solemn assembly.'

1:17d him

Or 'Jehovah hath given his adversaries round about charge against Jacob.'

1:18e commandment

Lit. 'his mouth.'

2:3a his

Or 'turned back his' (i.e. Israel's).

2:6b assembly, 2:6b, 2:7b, feast

Or 'solemn assembly.' The same word appears in the original for 'assembly,' ch. 1:15 and here, and set feast. Num. 10:10.

2:8c destroying

Lit. 'swallowing up,' as vers. 2, 5, 16.

2:14a expulsion

Or 'seduction,' and see Jer. 27:10.

2:22b side

See Jer. 6:25.

3:1c *

In this chapter, each verse in every succeeding set of three begins with the same Hebrew letter; and the whole in alphabetical order.

3:1d man

Geber; and so in vers. 27, 35, 39: see Job 3:3.

3:13a arrows

Lit. 'sons.'

3:19b wandering

Or 'my misery:' see ch. 1:7.

3:39c man

Geber, Job 3:3: 'living man' in this verse is Adam.

3:39d punishment

chet; sin, also punishment, Isa. 1:18, 'sins:' see Zech. 14:19.

3:47e, 3:48e ruin

Lit. 'breach:' see Jer. 6:14; 8:21; Amos 6:6.

3:52a me

Or 'Mine enemies have without cause chased me.'

3:53b pit

See Note, Jer. 37:16.

3:58c cause

Lit. 'causes.'

4:1d *

In this chapter the initial Hebrew letter of each verse, consisting of two parts or lines, follows the alphabetical order.

4:6e punishment

* The Hebrew word is used for iniquity, also the punishment of iniquity, as here and ver. 22, and three times in Ezek. 14:10. First used in Gen. 4:13: see Zech. 14:19, where, however, a different word is used. See Lam. 3:39.

4:7f Nazarites

Or 'princes.'

4:15a Unclean

See Isa. 52:11.

4:16b divided

Or 'hath dispersed,' see Gen. 49:7.

5:6c Asshur

i.e. the Assyrians.

5:8d deliverer

Lit. 'none that rendeth away:' see Ps. 136:24.

5:10e gloweth

* Or 'fiery red,' as 'burned,' Gen. 43:30; 'yearned,' 1Kings 3:26; 'kindled,' Hos. 11:8.

5:12f elders

Or 'the aged,' as ch. 4:16.

5:14a music

* Neginoth, 'stringed instruments,' as Title, Ps. 4, 6, 54, 55, 61 ,67, 76. The verb is, 'to strike the strings:' Isa. 38:20; Lam. 3:14; Hab. 3:19.

5:19b dwellest

Or 'sittest:' see Ps. 80:1.