{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/lam005.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/lam005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/lam005.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nLamentations 5:3\n \nlam 5:3\nWe - We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent. \nLamentations 5:4\n \nlam 5:4\nSold - Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea. \nLamentations 5:6\n \nlam 5:6\nWe - The ten tribes were all carried captives into Assyria, and many of the kingdom of Judah fled into Egypt. Giving the hand may signify labouring for them: or, yielding up themselves to their power. \nLamentations 5:7\n \nlam 5:7\nTheir iniquities - The punishment of them. \nLamentations 5:9\n \nlam 5:9\nThe sword - The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them. \nLamentations 5:13\n \nlam 5:13\nFell - Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them. \nLamentations 5:16\n \nlam 5:16\nThe crown - All our honour, splendor and dignity. \nLamentations 5:19\n \nlam 5:19\nThy throne - Altho' for our sins thou sufferest our throne to be cast down, yet thou art the same, thy power is not diminished, nor thy goodness abated. \nLamentations 5:21\n \nlam 5:21\nRenew - Restore us to our former estate.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Lamentations: Lamentations Chapter 5","type":"page"}