Lamentations 2:14

Lamentations 2:14

12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
In their mothers’ bosom.

13 How shall I ^aconsole you?
To what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
Who can heal you?

14 Your ^aprophets have seen for you
False and deceptive visions;
They have not ^buncovered your iniquity,
To bring back your captives,
But have envisioned for you false ^cprophecies and delusions.

15 All who¹ pass by ^aclap their hands at you;
They hiss ^band shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that is called
^c‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”

16 ^aAll your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, ^b“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the ^cday we have waited for;
We have found it, ^dwe have seen it!”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Thy prophets—not God's (Jeremiah 23:26).

vain . . . for thee—to gratify thy appetite, not for truth, but for false things.

not discovered thine iniquity—in opposition to God's command to the true prophets (Isaiah 58:1). Literally, "They have not taken off (the veil) which was on thine iniquity, so as to set it before thee."

burdens—Their prophecies were soothing and flattering; but the result of them was heavy calamities to the people, worse than even what the prophecies of Jeremiah, which they in derision called "burdens," threatened. Hence he terms their pretended prophecies "false burdens," which proved to the Jews "causes of their banishment" [CALVIN].

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