Nehemiæ 35:25

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Jeremias maxime : cujus omnes cantores atque cantatrices, usque in præsentem diem, lamentationes super Josiam replicant, et quasi lex obtinuit in Israël : Ecce scriptum fertur in lamentationibus.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Jeremias maxime: cujus omnes cantores atque cantatrices, usque in pr�sentem diem, lamentationes super Josiam replicant, et quasi lex obtinuit in Isra�l: Ecce scriptum fertur in lamentationibus.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ieremias fecit planctum super Iosiam; et omnes cantores atque cantrices usque in praesentem diem lamentationes super Iosia replicant, et quasi lex obtinuit in Israel; ecce scriptum fertur in Lamentationibus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah: Jeremiah 22:10, Lamentations 4:20

all the singing: Job 3:8, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Jeremiah 9:17-21, Matthew 9:23

and made them: Jeremiah 22:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:2 - mourn Numbers 20:29 - General 2 Samuel 1:17 - lamented Isaiah 22:12 - call Jeremiah 4:21 - shall I Jeremiah 22:18 - They Ezekiel 19:1 - the princes Ezekiel 28:12 - take up Ezekiel 32:16 - General Micah 2:4 - and lament Acts 8:2 - made

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah,.... Composed a lamentation for him, which is now lost; for what is said in Lamentations 4:20 respects Zedekiah, and not Josiah:

and all the singing men, and all the singing women, spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; who were made use of on mournful occasions, as the "preficae" among the Romans, see Jeremiah 9:17 these in their mournful ditties used to make mention of his name, and the disaster that befell him:

and made them an ordinance in Israel; an annual constitution, as the Targum calls it, appointing a solemn mourning for him once a year, which Jarchi says was on the ninth of Ab or July:

and, behold, they are written in the lamentations; not of Jeremiah; though the Targum is,

"lo, they are written in the book which Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, concerning the lamentations,''

but respect a collection of lamentations on various subjects then in being, but since lost.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Some find Jeremiah’s lament in the entire Book of Lamentations; others in a part of it Lamentations 4:0. But most critics are of opinion that the lament is lost. Days of calamity were commemorated by lamentations on their anniversaries, and this among the number. The “Book of Dirges” was a collection of such poems which once existed but is now lost.

And made them an ordinance - Rather, “and they made them an ordinance,” they i. e. who had authority to do so, not the minstrels.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 35:25. Behold, they are written in the lamentations. — The Hebrews had poetical compositions for all great and important events, military songs, songs of triumph, epithalamia or marriage odes, funeral elegies, c. Several of these are preserved in different parts of the historical books of Scripture, and these were generally made by prophets or inspired men. That composed on the tragical end of this good king by Jeremiah is now lost. The Targum says, "Jeremiah bewailed Josiah with a great lamentation and all the chiefs and matrons sing these lamentations concerning Josiah to the present day, and it was a statute in Israel annually to bewail Josiah. Behold, these are written in the book of Lamentations, which Baruch wrote down from the mouth of Jeremiah."