The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 2:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

His word that he had commanded, etc. "Commanded," i.e. given in charge to. Comp. Zechariah 1:6, My words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets." Zechariah continues, in language which illustrates the foregoing words of this verse, "Did they not take hold of [overtake] your fathers;" where the persons spoken of as "your fathers" are the same as those who are represented by the speaker of the elegy.

"In the days of old;" alluding, perhaps, to such passages as Deuteronomy 28:52, etc. The horn of thine adversaries. "Horn" has a twofold meaning—"strength" or "defence" (comp. Deuteronomy 28:3), and "honour" or "dignity".

The figure is too natural to need explanation.

More for Lamentations 2:17

Continue with other commentaries and DiscipleDeck content connected to this verse, chapter, or topic.

Other commentaries

The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 2:1-22Lamentations 2:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryZION'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD. LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS. EXPOSITION Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:10-22Lamentations 2:10-22 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryCauses for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and eaten, according to the threatening, Deut. 28:53. Multitudes fell by the sword. Their fal…Complicated Sorrows. (b. c. 588.)Lamentations 2:10-22 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleCOMPLICATED SORROWS. (B. C. 588.) Justly are these called Lamentations, and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel's roll, E…The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 2:17Lamentations 2:17 · The Pulpit CommentaryRuin from God. In the fifteenth and sixteenth verses we find strangers and enemies indulging in unseemly jubilation over the fall of Jerusalem. Now, we see—what they do not see—that the cause of that fall was the direct…

commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 2:1-22ZION'S JUDGMENT IS OF GOD. LAMENTATIONS AND SUPPLICATIONS. EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryMatthew Henry on Lamentations 2:10-22Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands, and eaten, according to the threatening, Deut. 28:53. Multitudes fell by the sword. Their fal…Matthew Henry commentaryComplicated Sorrows. (b. c. 588.)COMPLICATED SORROWS. (B. C. 588.) Justly are these called Lamentations, and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel's roll, E…Matthew Henry commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 2:17Ruin from God. In the fifteenth and sixteenth verses we find strangers and enemies indulging in unseemly jubilation over the fall of Jerusalem. Now, we see—what they do not see—that the cause of that fall was the direct…Joseph S. Exell and contributors