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Ratapan 2:15

Sekalian orang yang lewat bertepuk tangan karena engkau. Mereka bersuit-suit dan menggelengkan kepalanya mengenai puteri Yerusalem: "Inikah kota yang disebut orang kota yang paling indah, kesukaan dunia semesta?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Famine;   Jerusalem;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Excellency and Glory of the Church, the;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Perfect, Perfection;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Hiss;   Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gestures;   Head ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem ;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Clap;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Clap;   Gesture;   Hand;   Head;   Perfect;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekalian orang yang lewat bertepuk tangan karena engkau. Mereka bersuit-suit dan menggelengkan kepalanya mengenai puteri Yerusalem: "Inikah kota yang disebut orang kota yang paling indah, kesukaan dunia semesta?"
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Segala orang yang lalu di jalan itu bertepuk-tepuk tangan sebab halmu, mereka itu bersiul dan menggeleng kepala sebab hal puteri Sion, katanya: Inilah dia negeri yang dikatakan makota keelokan dan kesukaan segenap isi bumi?

Contextual Overview

10 The senatours of the daughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in scilence, they haue strawed asshes vpon their heads, and gyrded them selues with sackcloth: the maydens of Hierusalem hang downe their heades to the grounde. 11 Mine eyes begin to fayle me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liuer is powred vpon the earth for the great hurt of the daughter of my people, seeing the chyldren and babes dyd swowne in the streetes of the citie. 12 Euen when they spake to their mothers, Where is meate and drinke? for whyle they so sayde, they fell downe in the streetes of the citie, like as they had ben wounded, and some dyed in their mothers bosome. 13 What shall I say vnto thee, O thou daughter Hierusalem? to whom shal I liken thee? To whom shall I compare thee O thou daughter Sion, to comfort thee withall? thy heart is lyke a mayne sea, who may heale thee? 14 Thy prophetes haue looke dout vayne and foolish thinges for thee, they haue not shewed thee of thy wickednesse, to kepe thee from captiuitie: but they haue seene out for thee burthens of vanitie and banishment. 15 All they that go by thee, clappe their handes at thee, hissing and wagging their heades vpon the daughter Hierusalem [and say] Is this the citie that men call so faire, wherein the whole lande reioyceth? 16 All thyne enemies gape vpon thee, whispering and grinding their teeth, saying: let vs deuour, for the tyme that we looked for is come, we haue founde and seene it. 17 The Lorde hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do, and perfourmed that he had deuised long ago: he hath destroyed and not spared, he hath caused thyne aduersarie to triumph ouer thee, and set vp the horne of thyne enemie. 18 Their heart cryed vnto the Lorde, O thou citie of the daughter Sion: let thy teares runne downe like a riuer day and night, rest not, and let not the apple of thyne eye leaue of. 19 Stand vp, and make thy prayer in the first watche of the night, powre out thine heart like water before the Lord: lift vp thyne handes for the liues of thy young chyldren that dye of hunger in the streetes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The combination of scorn, enmity, rage, and exultation, which the conquerors and spectators manifested at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, are here described with peculiar pathos and energy. The whole scene is presented to view as in an exquisitely finished historical painting.

that pass: Deuteronomy 29:22-28, 1 Kings 9:7-9, 2 Chronicles 7:21, Jeremiah 18:16

by: Heb. by the way

clap: Lamentations 1:8, Job 27:22, Job 27:23, Ezekiel 25:6, Nahum 3:19

they: Lamentations 2:16, Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 29:18, Jeremiah 51:37, Micah 6:16, Zephaniah 2:15

wag: 2 Kings 19:21, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 44:14, Psalms 44:15, Isaiah 37:22, Jeremiah 18:16, Matthew 27:39, Mark 15:29

Is this: Lamentations 2:6, Psalms 48:2, Psalms 50:2, Isaiah 64:11

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:45 - Moreover Deuteronomy 29:24 - General Ruth 1:19 - Is this Naomi 1 Samuel 4:18 - when he made 2 Chronicles 7:20 - a proverb Job 16:4 - shake mine Psalms 30:1 - hast not Psalms 79:4 - become Psalms 137:3 - For there Song of Solomon 6:4 - comely Isaiah 28:21 - his strange Isaiah 57:4 - draw Jeremiah 15:5 - For who Jeremiah 22:8 - General Jeremiah 24:9 - to be a Jeremiah 30:17 - they Jeremiah 33:24 - thus Jeremiah 40:2 - The Lord Jeremiah 44:8 - a curse Jeremiah 44:22 - your land Jeremiah 48:27 - was not Jeremiah 49:17 - shall hiss Jeremiah 50:11 - ye were Jeremiah 50:13 - every Jeremiah 51:51 - are confounded Lamentations 1:7 - the adversaries Lamentations 1:21 - they are Lamentations 3:45 - as Lamentations 5:1 - behold Ezekiel 5:8 - in the Ezekiel 5:14 - I will Ezekiel 13:12 - Where Ezekiel 16:13 - and thou didst Ezekiel 16:14 - thy renown Ezekiel 22:4 - have I Ezekiel 23:32 - thou shalt be Ezekiel 27:36 - hiss Ezekiel 36:3 - and ye Ezekiel 39:23 - the heathen Daniel 9:13 - As it is Daniel 9:16 - Jerusalem Micah 4:11 - many Habakkuk 1:15 - therefore Zechariah 8:13 - a curse Romans 2:24 - the name

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made. And the seueth day he rested from all his worke which he had made.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Job 31:33
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?
Psalms 128:2
For thou shalt eate the labours of thine handes: thou shalt be happy, and [all] shall go well with thee.
Ephesians 4:28
Let hym that stole, steale no more: but let hym rather labour, workyng with his handes the thyng whiche is good, that he may geue vnto hym that needeth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee,.... Travellers that passed by, and saw Jerusalem in ruins, clapped their hands at it, by way of rejoicing, as well pleased at the sight. This must be understood, not of the inhabitants of the land, but of strangers, who had no good will to it; though they seem to be distinguished from their implacable enemies in Lamentations 2:16:

they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem; by way of scorn and derision; hereby expressing their contempt of her, and the pleasure and satisfaction they took in seeing her in this condition:

[saying, is] this the city that [men] call the perfection of beauty,

the joy of the whole earth? a complete city, a most beautiful one for its situation; for its fortifications by nature and art; for its spacious buildings, palaces, and towers; and especially for the magnificent temple in it, and the residence of the God of heaven there, and that pompous worship of him there performed; on account of all which, and the abundant blessings of goodness bestowed upon the inhabitants, they had reason to rejoice more than all the men of the world besides; as well as they contributed many ways to the good and happiness of all nations; this is what had been said by themselves,

Psalms 48:2; and had even been owned by others; by the forefathers of those very persons that now insult over it. So the Targum,

"is this the city which our fathers that were of old said? c.''

nor do they by these words deny, but rather own, that it had been what was said of it but now the case was otherwise; instead of being a perfect beauty, it was a perfect heap of rubbish; instead of being the joy of the whole earth, it was the offscouring of all things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the scene round the cross of the Redeemer Matthew 27:39.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. The perfection of beauty — This probably only applied to the temple. Jerusalem never was a fine or splendid city; but the temple was most assuredly the most splendid building in the world.


 
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