Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5:3

After - From this text it appears that the seventy years captivity, were to be accounted from the first carrying into captivity in the time of Jehoiakim, so that eleven years of it were elapsed, before Zedekiah was carried away.

Lamentations 5:4

To give - This deliverance will not depend upon your merits, but upon my own mercy, and kind thoughts and purposes I have for the seed of Abraham my servant, and I am resolved in my own thoughts what to do, I intend not the blotting out of the name of Israel from the earth, but to give such an end to their trouble as themselves expect and desire.

Lamentations 5:8

Because - The prophet here turns his speech to some wicked Jews, that were in Babylon, or in Judea.

Lamentations 5:9

Of the king - Zedekiah.

Lamentations 5:17

Nehelamite - It is probable there was such a place as Nehelam, from whence he was.

Lamentations 5:19

Priest - Zephaniah was the second priest. In the stead - In the stead signifies, that thou shouldest be like the good high priest Jehoiada. Mad - That thou mightest take care of persons, who being mad or frantick make themselves prophets.