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Selected Verse: Lamentations 1:11 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 1:11 |
Strong Concordance |
All her people [05971] sigh [0584], they seek [01245] bread [03899]; they have given [05414] their pleasant things [04261] [04262] for meat [0400] to relieve [07725] the soul [05315]: see [07200], O LORD [03068], and consider [05027]; for I am become vile [02151]. |
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King James |
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Jer 37:21; Jer 38:9; Jer 52:6).
given . . . pleasant things for meat-- (Kg2 6:25; Job 2:4).
relieve . . . soul--literally, "to cause the soul or life to return."
for I am become vile--Her sins and consequent sorrows are made the plea in craving God's mercy. Compare the like plea in Psa 25:11. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Sigh ... seek - Are sighing ... are seeking. The words are present participles, describing the condition of the people. After a siege lasting a year and a half the whole country, far and near, would be exhausted.
To relieve the soul - See the margin, i. e. to bring back life to them. They bring out their jewels and precious articles to obtain with them at least a meal. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Besides this disgrace, famine also comes on her. All her people, i.e., the whole of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, sigh after bread, and part with their jewels for food, merely to prolong their life. The participles נאנחים, מכקשׁים, are not to be translated by preterites; they express a permanent condition of things, and the words are not to be restricted in their reference to the famine during the siege of the city (Jer 37:21; Jer 38:9; Jer 52:6). Even after it was reduced, the want of provisions may have continued; so that the inhabitants of the city, starved into a surrender, delivered up their most valuable things to those who plundered them, for victuals to be obtained from these enemies. Yet it is not correct to refer the words to the present sad condition of those who were left behind, as distinguished from their condition during the siege and immediately after the taking of the city (Gerlach). This cannot be inferred from the participles. The use of these is fully accounted for by the fact that the writer sets forth, as present, the whole of the misery that came on Jerusalem during the siege, and which did not immediately cease with the capture of the city; he describes it as a state of matters that still continues. As to מחמוּדיהם, see on Lam 1:7. השׁיב נפשׁ, "to bring back the soul," the life, i.e., by giving food to revive one who is nearly fainting, to keep in his life (= השׁיב רוּח); cf. Rut 4:15; Sa1 30:12, and in a spiritual sense, Psa 19:8; Psa 23:3. In the third member of the verse, the sigh which is uttered as a prayer (Lam 1:9) is repeated in an intensified form; and the way is thus prepared for the transition to the lamentation and suppliant request of Jerusalem, which forms the second half of the poem. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Bread - Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and honey, they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given - And gave any thing for something to satisfy their hunger. Vile - Miserable or contemptible. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They have given their pleasant things - Jerusalem is compared to a woman brought into great straits, who parts with her jewels and trinkets in order to purchase by them the necessaries of life. |
11 For thy name's [08034] sake, O LORD [03068], pardon [05545] mine iniquity [05771]; for it is great [07227].
4 And Satan [07854] answered [06030] the LORD [03068], and said [0559], Skin [05785] for skin [05785], yea, all that a man [0376] hath will he give [05414] for his life [05315].
25 And there was a great [01419] famine [07458] in Samaria [08111]: and, behold, they besieged [06696] it, until an ass's [02543] head [07218] was sold for fourscore [08084] pieces of silver [03701], and the fourth part [07255] of a cab [06894] of dove's dung [01686] [03123] [02755] for five [02568] pieces of silver [03701].
6 And in the fourth [07243] month [02320], in the ninth [08672] day of the month [02320], the famine [07458] was sore [02388] in the city [05892], so that there was no bread [03899] for the people [05971] of the land [0776].
9 My lord [0113] the king [04428], these men [0582] have done evil [07489] in all that they have done [06213] to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030], whom they have cast [07993] into the dungeon [0953]; and he is like to die [04191] for [06440] hunger [07458] in the place [08478] where he is: for there is no more bread [03899] in the city [05892].
21 Then Zedekiah [06667] the king [04428] commanded [06680] that they should commit [06485] Jeremiah [03414] into the court [02691] of the prison [04307], and that they should give [05414] him daily [03117] a piece [03603] of bread [03899] out of the bakers [0644] ' street [02351], until all the bread [03899] in the city [05892] were spent [08552]. Thus Jeremiah [03414] remained [03427] in the court [02691] of the prison [04307].
9 Her filthiness [02932] is in her skirts [07757]; she remembereth [02142] not her last end [0319]; therefore she came down [03381] wonderfully [06382]: she had no comforter [05162]. O LORD [03068], behold [07200] my affliction [06040]: for the enemy [0341] hath magnified [01431] himself.
3 He restoreth [07725] my soul [05315]: he leadeth [05148] me in the paths [04570] of righteousness [06664] for his name's [08034] sake.
8 The statutes [06490] of the LORD [03068] are right [03477], rejoicing [08055] the heart [03820]: the commandment [04687] of the LORD [03068] is pure [01249], enlightening [0215] the eyes [05869].
12 And they gave [05414] him a piece [06400] of a cake [01690] of figs, and two [08147] clusters of raisins [06778]: and when he had eaten [0398], his spirit [07307] came again [07725] to him: for he had eaten [0398] no bread [03899], nor drunk [08354] any water [04325], three [07969] days [03117] and three [07969] nights [03915].
15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer [07725] of thy life [05315], and a nourisher [03557] of thine old age [07872]: for thy daughter in law [03618], which loveth [0157] thee, which is better [02896] to thee than seven [07651] sons [01121], hath born [03205] him.
7 Jerusalem [03389] remembered [02142] in the days [03117] of her affliction [06040] and of her miseries [04788] all her pleasant things [04262] that she had in the days [03117] of old [06924], when her people [05971] fell [05307] into the hand [03027] of the enemy [06862], and none did help [05826] her: the adversaries [06862] saw [07200] her, and did mock [07832] at her sabbaths [04868].
6 And in the fourth [07243] month [02320], in the ninth [08672] day of the month [02320], the famine [07458] was sore [02388] in the city [05892], so that there was no bread [03899] for the people [05971] of the land [0776].
9 My lord [0113] the king [04428], these men [0582] have done evil [07489] in all that they have done [06213] to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030], whom they have cast [07993] into the dungeon [0953]; and he is like to die [04191] for [06440] hunger [07458] in the place [08478] where he is: for there is no more bread [03899] in the city [05892].
21 Then Zedekiah [06667] the king [04428] commanded [06680] that they should commit [06485] Jeremiah [03414] into the court [02691] of the prison [04307], and that they should give [05414] him daily [03117] a piece [03603] of bread [03899] out of the bakers [0644] ' street [02351], until all the bread [03899] in the city [05892] were spent [08552]. Thus Jeremiah [03414] remained [03427] in the court [02691] of the prison [04307].