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I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
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The Deception of False Saviors
Commentators identify the "lovers" as Jerusalem's foreign allies (like Egypt) or its false gods. In its moment of greatest need, Jerusalem called out to these sources of worldly security, but they proved to be utterly unreliable. This serves as a powerful warning against placing ultimate trust in anything or anyone besides God.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I called for ... - Rather, to “my lovers.”
While they sought their meat - literally, “for they sought food for themselves to r…
19th Century
Anglican
I called for. —Better, to. The “lovers,” as in Lamentations 1:2, are the former allies of Judah.
My priests…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the people of God complain in the person of a woman, as we have previously seen, that in their calamity they were left destitute of every comf…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me Either her idols, with whom she had committed spiritual adultery, tha…
Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferi…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he laments the wasting away of those who have starved to death during the siege.
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