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A Festival of Terrors
Commentators explain the verse's powerful and tragic irony. God is depicted as summoning terrors 'as in the day of a solemn assembly.' Just as trumpets would call worshippers to a joyful festival in Jerusalem, God has now summoned enemies from every side to execute His judgment. The sacred gathering has been horrifically inverted into a gathering of destruction.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 2:22
18th Century
Theologian
You have called as in a solemn day – that is, “You” call “like a feast day,” that is, like the proclaiming of a festival.
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 2:22
19th Century
Bishop
You have called ... —Better, You have summoned, as for a solemn feast-day. (Compare to Lamentations 1:15.) In “terrors ro…
John Calvin
On Lamentations 2:22
16th Century
Theologian
Here he uses a most appropriate metaphor to show that the people had been brought to dire straits, for he says that terrors had surrounded…
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John Gill
On Lamentations 2:22
17th Century
Pastor
You have called, as in a solemn day, my terrors round about, &c.] Terrible enemies, as the Chaldeans; these came at the c…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 2:10–22
17th Century
Minister
Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands and eaten, according t…