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* [[Chapters and verses of the Bible|This chapter is divided into]] 22 verses.
* [[Chapters and verses of the Bible|This chapter is divided into]] 22 verses.
* The chapter is acrostic, divided into twenty-two stanzas or verses. The stanzas consist of triplets of lines (excepting Lamentations 2:19, which contain four lines) each beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order (twenty-two in number).<ref name=jfb/>
* The chapter is acrostic, divided into twenty-two stanzas or verses. The stanzas consist of triplets of lines (excepting Lamentations 2:19, which contain four lines) each beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order (twenty-two in number).<ref name=jfb/>
* In verses 16-17, two letters are transposed. This is found is three instances in the whole book (Lamentations 2:16, 17; 3:46-51; 4:16, 17). Grotius thinks the reason for the inversion of two of the Hebrew letters, is that the Chaldeans, like the Arabians, used a different order from the Hebrews; in the first Elegy (chapter), Jeremiah speaks as a Hebrew, in the following ones, as one subject to the Chaldeans. However, this is doubtful.<ref name=jfb/>


==Textual versions==
==Textual versions==

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Lamentations 2
Lamentations 1:1 - 1:11 on the first page of Book of Lamentations in Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-350).
BookBook of Lamentations
CategoryKetuvim
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part25

Lamentations 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] This book contains the elegies of prophet Jeremiah as he lamenteth the misery of Jerusalem, and its causes, and their enemies’ derision, Lamentations 2:1-17; in exhortation to true sorrow and repentance; a fervent prayer, Lamentations 2:18-22.[3] It is a part of the Ketuvim ("Writings").[4][5]

Text

  • The original text is written in Hebrew language.
  • This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
  • The chapter is acrostic, divided into twenty-two stanzas or verses. The stanzas consist of triplets of lines (excepting Lamentations 2:19, which contain four lines) each beginning with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order (twenty-two in number).[3]
  • In verses 16-17, two letters are transposed. This is found is three instances in the whole book (Lamentations 2:16, 17; 3:46-51; 4:16, 17). Grotius thinks the reason for the inversion of two of the Hebrew letters, is that the Chaldeans, like the Arabians, used a different order from the Hebrews; in the first Elegy (chapter), Jeremiah speaks as a Hebrew, in the following ones, as one subject to the Chaldeans. However, this is doubtful.[3]

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

This chapter can be grouped into:

Verse 1

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger![8]
  • "How" (Hebrew, Eichah): the title of the collection repeated here, and in Lamentations 4:1.[3]
  • "How hath the Lord covered": Or, "How" doth "אדני 'ădonāy cover."[9]
  • "The daughter of Zion": i.e. Jerusalem.[10]
  • "Cast down from heaven": Here and in Matthew 11:23 we have a parallel to Isaiah 14:12, where the King of Babylon is compared to a bright star. "Cast down" whither? Into the "pit" or dungeon of Hades (Isaiah 14:15).[10]
  • "The beauty of Israel": i.e. Jerusalem, exactly as Babylon is called "the proud beauty [or, 'ornament'] of Chaldea" (Isaiah 13:19).[10]
  • "His footstool": meaning either the house of the sanctuary, the temple itself, as containing the ark (1 Chronicles 28:2; Psalm 99:5),[10] as the Targum and Jarchi; or rather the ark (Psalm 132:7) with the mercy seat, on which the Shechinah or divine Majesty set his feet, when sitting between the cherubim; and is so called, 1 Chronicles 28:2.[11]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ^ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible. 1871.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  5. ^ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  6. ^ a b Dead sea scrolls - Lamentations
  7. ^ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  8. ^ Lamentations 2:1
  9. ^ Barnes, Albert. Notes on the Old Testament. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. ^ a b c d Joseph S. Exell; Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (Editors). The Pulpit Commentary. 23 volumes. First publication: 1890.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  11. ^ John Gill. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Published in 1746-1763.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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