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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
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The Two-Fold Cause of Exile
Commentators see a dual cause for Judah's exile. The immediate cause was the "affliction and great servitude" from the Chaldean invasion. However, scholars like Gill and Henry emphasize a deeper reason: Judah's own sin, particularly oppressing the poor. As Matthew Henry notes, allowing sin to have dominion in our lives justly allows other enemies to have dominion over us as well.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Because of ... – that is, the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and…
19th Century
Anglican
Because of affliction. — The Authorised Version suggests the thought that the words refer to the voluntary emigration of …
16th Century
Protestant
Interpreters apply this, but in my view improperly, to the captivity of the people. On the contrary, the Prophet means that the Jews had been scatt…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Judah is gone into captivity Not only Jerusalem the metropolis of Judea was destroyed, but the whole country was rav…
The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person. At other times, Jerusalem, personified as a distressed woman, or some of the Jews are the speakers.…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the author writes in detail about the misfortune of their servitude in order to show its greatness.
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