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<p id="Chapter5" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER (ELEGY) 5
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<p id="La5_1"><a onclick="return mV('Lam',5,'1-22');">Lam 5:1-22</a>. EPIPHONEMA, OR A CLOSING RECAPITULATION OF THE CALAMITIES TREATED IN THE PREVIOUS ELEGIES.
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<p><b>1.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',89,50,51);">Psa 89:50-51</a>).
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<p id="La5_2"><b>2. Our inheritance</b>—"Thine inheritance" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',79,1);">Psa 79:1</a>). The land given of old to us by Thy gift.
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<p id="La5_3"><b>3. fatherless</b>—Our whole land is full of orphans [CALVIN]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,19);">Jer 3:19</a>), [GROTIUS].
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<p id="La5_4"><b>4. water for money</b>—The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of Jerusalem; or rather, it refers to their sojourn in Babylon; they had to pay tax for access to the rivers and fountains. Thus, "our" means the water which we need, the commonest necessary of life.
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<br><br><b>our wood</b>—In Judea each one could get wood without pay; in Babylon, "our wood," the wood we need, must be paid for.
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<p id="La5_5"><b>5.</b> Literally, "On our necks we are persecuted"; that is, Men tread on our necks (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',66,12);">Psa 66:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',51,23);">Isa 51:23</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Jos',10,24);">Jos 10:24</a>). The extremest oppression. The foe not merely galled the Jews face, back, and sides, but their neck. A just retribution, as they had been stiff in neck against the yoke of God (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',30,8);">2Ch 30:8</a>, <i>Margin;</i> <a onclick="return mV('Neh',9,29);">Neh 9:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',48,4);">Isa 48:4</a>).
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<p id="La5_6"><b>6. given...hand to</b>—in token of submission (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer050.html#Jer50_15">Jer 50:15</a>).
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<br><br><b>to...Egyptians</b>—at the death of Josiah (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',36,3, 4);">2Ch 36:3-4</a>).
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<br><br><b>Assyrians</b>—that is, the Chaldeans who occupied the empire which Assyria had held. So <a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,18);">Jer 2:18</a>.
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<br><br><b>to be satisfied with bread</b>—(<a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,48);">Deu 28:48</a>).
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<p id="La5_7"><b>7.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',31,29);">Jer 31:29</a>).
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<br><br><b>borne their iniquities</b>—that is, the punishment of them. The accumulated sins of our fathers from age to age, as well as our own, are visited on us. They say this as a plea why God should pity them (compare <a onclick="return mV('Eze',18,2);">Eze 18:2</a>, etc.).
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<p id="La5_8"><b>8. Servants...ruled...us</b>—Servants under the Chaldean governors ruled the Jews (<a onclick="return mV('Neh',5,15);">Neh 5:15</a>). Israel, once a "kingdom of priests" (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',19,6);">Exd 19:6</a>), is become like Canaan, "a servant of servants," according to the curse (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',9,25);">Gen 9:25</a>). The Chaldeans were designed to be "servants" of Shem, being descended from Ham (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',9,26);">Gen 9:26</a>). Now through the Jews' sin, their positions are reversed.
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<p id="La5_9"><b>9. We gat our bread with...peril</b>—that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans.
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<br><br><b>because of...sword of...wilderness</b>—because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs of the wilderness, through which the Jews had to pass to get "bread" from Egypt (compare <a onclick="return mV('Lam',5,6);">Lam 5:6</a>).
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<p id="La5_10"><b>10.</b> As an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (<i>Margin,</i> rightly, "storms," like the hot simoom). Hunger dries up the pores so that the skin becomes like as if it were scorched by the sun (<a onclick="return mV('Job',30,30);">Job 30:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',119,83);">Psa 119:83</a>).
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<p id="La5_11"><b>11.</b> So in just retribution Babylon itself should fare in the end. Jerusalem shall for the last time suffer these woes before her final restoration (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',14,2);">Zec 14:2</a>).
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<p id="La5_12"><b>12. hanged...by their hand</b>—a piece of wanton cruelty invented by the Chaldeans. GROTIUS translates, "Princes were hung by the hand <i>of the enemy</i>"; hanging was a usual mode of execution (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',40,19);">Gen 40:19</a>).
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<br><br><b>elders</b>—officials (<a onclick="return mV('Lam',4,16);">Lam 4:16</a>).
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<p id="La5_13"><b>13. young men...grind</b>—The work of the lowest <i>female</i> slave was laid on young men (<a onclick="return mV('Jdg',16,21);">Jdg 16:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',31,10);">Job 31:10</a>).
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<br><br><b>children fell under...wood</b>—Mere children had to bear burdens of wood so heavy that they sank beneath them.
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<p id="La5_14"><b>14.</b> Aged men in the East meet in the open space round the gate to decide judicial trials and to hold social converse (<a onclick="return mV('Job',29,7,8);">Job 29:7-8</a>).
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<p id="La5_16"><b>16. The crown</b>—all our glory, the kingdom and the priesthood (<a onclick="return mV('Job',19,9);">Job 19:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',89,39);">Psa 89:39, 44</a>).
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<p id="La5_17"><b>17.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Lam',1,22);">Lam 1:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lam',2,11);">2:11</a>).
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<p id="La5_18"><b>18. foxes</b>—They frequent desolate places where they can freely and fearlessly roam.
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<p id="La5_19"><b>19.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',102,12);">Psa 102:12</a>). The perpetuity of God's rule over human affairs, however He may seem to let His people be oppressed for a time, is their ground of hope of restoration.
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<p id="La5_20"><b>20. for ever</b>—that is, for "so long a time."
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<p id="La5_21"><b>21.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',80,3);">Psa 80:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',31,18);">Jer 31:18</a>). "Restore us to favor with Thee, and so we shall be restored to our old position" [GROTIUS]. Jeremiah is not speaking of spiritual conversion, but of that outward turning whereby God receives men into His fatherly favor, manifested in bestowing prosperity [CALVIN]. Still, as Israel is a type of the Church, temporal goods typify spiritual blessings; and so the sinner may use this prayer for God to convert him.
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<p id="La5_22"><b>22.</b> Rather, "Unless haply Thou hast utterly rejected us, and art beyond measure wroth against us," that is, Unless Thou art implacable, which is impossible, hear our prayer [CALVIN]. Or, as <i>Margin,</i> "For wouldest Thou utterly reject us?" etc.—No; that cannot be. The Jews, in this book, and in Isaiah and Malachi, to avoid the ill-omen of a mournful closing sentence, repeat the verse immediately preceding the last [CALVIN].
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