ation for his Servant ... ... S02
TMsm nsi Bamoh; or, the Young Beomit l^
heartened ... ... ... 203
Ambition prohibited ... ... 204
Counsel and Comfort for the Maa
orercome with Bad Tidings m« SOS
CHAPTEB XLVL
The Judgment of Egypt .« .m 212
Incurable Diseases ... .m 213
The Heifer and the Gadfly]... ^ 213
The Judgment of the Nations ... 214
"Judgment" going on "from the
House of God "... ... ... 215
Premature Glorying ... ... 215
The Terror of Sacrifice without its
Blessing 217
The Beal Caose of the Decline of
Empires ... ... ... 218
Punishment not Destruction but
Purification and Preservatim ... 219
Correction but in Measure ... „• 220
Why the Valiant are swept away n. 220
God's Care of his own ... ^ 220
CHAPTEB XLVn.
The Judgment of the Philistines ... 223
The Sword of the Lord ... JB4, 225
The Sorrow of the Ungodly ... 225
The Sword that cannot be Quiet ... 226
Apostrophe to the Sword ... ... 226
CHAPTEB XLVm. The Judgment of Moab ... ... 233
The Dangers of Biches m* m. 234
Slack Service ... ,^ ,„ 234
" Wine on the Lees" .^ „. 235
Pride ^ 236,242
The Ease of Moab .„ 236, 245
Betrayed by their Gods ... ... 237
" The Heath in the Wilderness " ... 238 Doing the Work of the Lord deceit-
Mly 238,244
Much Ease, much Peril ... ... 239
Touching the Apple of God's Eye ... 241 The Departed Praise of Moab ... 243
The Consequence of a Wrong Coafl-
dence 248
Moab exulting over Fallea Israel ... 245 The Broken Vessel ... ^ 246
No Ultimate Escape .^ ,^ 246
CHAPTEB XUX. Israel's Heirs ... ... ,^ 252
The Failure of Wisdom ... ^ 253
INDEX.
rmm faoi
A PromlM for Orphans and Widows 251 A People deoeived by its own Terrible-
nosfl ... ... ... ... Z5o
"Fear on Every Side" 255
The Paradox of Israel's Inheritance... 255
" Where is the Wise ? " 256
Israel's Judgment an Argument for
Edom'i ... ... ... 257
The Unrest of the Wicked ... ... 257
Might not Bight
257
Desirable Habitations : a New Tear's
Sermon ... ... ... 258
Consohition for a Father's Dying Bed 259
Vain Confidences ... ... ... 260
Lessons from the Sea ... 261, 267
The Fall of Damascus ; or, the Lovely
and the Lovable lost ... ... 263
A Usurper in the Inheritance m. 265
The Pride of Apparent Security m. 266
The Fate of Qlam ... m. 367
CHAPTER L.
The Judgment of Babylon...
«. 274
EUttuming Penitents
M.
... 275
Lost Sheep
M.
... 276
Perfect Forgiveness
•..
... 276
The Strong Bedeemer
M«
277, 284
Israel's Deliverance
...
... 278
"To Zion, with their Faces thither- ward"... ... ... ... 278
Israel as Lost Sheep ... ,„ 279 Divine Forgiveness an Absolute Obli- vion ... ... .M ... 279
The Hammer broken .m m. 280
Godly Sorrow m. 280
Forgetting onr Besting-Flaoe m. 281
The Forgiveness of Ood .» m. 282
Hammer versus Hammer ... •» 283
The Liars' Sword... .^ ... 285
The Fall of Hell ... 285
Beunited Israel seeking JehoTah ... 286
The Wolf excusing himself ... 287 The Punishment of those wlio rejoice
wrongly ... ... ... 287
The Feeding-Places of the Flock ... 288
A Vain Quest ... ... ... 288
The Sword everywhere ... m. 289
Capital Events ia History ... m. 289
OHAPTEB LL
" Suffering, bat not Forsaken ** u. 295
Public Thanksgiving ... ... 295
THEia nas
God's Battle-Axe 296, 8W
Flight from the City of Destruction 296 The Duty and Encouragement of the
Saved ... ... ... ... 297
The Book oast into the Biver ... 298 Divine Love not to be severed from
its Object ... ... ... 298
The Duty of Separating from Um
World 299
Praise the Outcome of Saintly Ex-
perience ... ... ... 299
"Escape for thy Life I" ... m. 299
The Response of the Redeemed m. 800
" The Portion of Jacob " ... m. 801
A Fatal Fact ... ... ... 802
Harvests of Horror and Threshings ef
Wrath 303
Joy over Judgment ... ... 804
The Charge to them that are Spared 304
"The Broad Walls" ... ... 804
The Weariness of Sin ». m— 805
Unforsaken Israel... — m. 806
Individual Escape ... ... 306
Declaring in Zion the Work of the
Lord ... ... ... ... 307
The Dwellers on Many Waters ... 807
The Resources of Jehovah ... ... 308
The Portion of Jacob contrasted with
the Confidences of Babylon ... 309
The Destroying Mountain destroyed 309
Effeminacy ... ... ... 810
Making the Springs Dry ... ... 810
A Timely BecoUection and its Practi- cal Effect m. 811
Evil written in a Book ... ... 811
A Symbol of Irretrievable LoM mm 812
OHAPTEB Ln.
The Siege and Capture of Jerusalem 313 The Fate of Zedekiah ... 814,816,821
The Destruction of the Temple ... 814
Sparing the Poor ... ... ... 315
The Deliverance of Jehoiaohin ... 816
The Lord creating Evil ... ... 816
The March of Doom 817
Days whose Duties are Indelible ... 818
Famine ... ... ... m. 819
The Irony of a Name ... «. S20
Zedekiah as King... ... n. 320
Zedekiah's Army scattered ••• 321
A Great Burning ... ... m. S21
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AND BY THE
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LAMENTATIOISrS.
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THE LAMENTATIONS OP JEEEIIAH.
INTRODUCTION.
Thi Book of Lamentations luts no anthor'a name attacliecl to it in the Hebrew Bible, which, indeed, places it far away from Jeremiah in the bo> called K'thubhlm or Hagiographa, between Bath and Koheleth (Ecclesiastes). It is the Septnagint which, in some manuscripts, appends " of Jeremiah " to the descriptive title " Lamentations," at the same time grouping it with the prophecies of Jeremiah and the (apocryphal) Book of Barach. Bat before we can form an opinion as to the justice of this view of the author- ship, and the romantic tradition connected with it (see below), we must first of all take a general survey of the book and gather up all its internal evidence as to date and origin ; and also we mast illuminate this by the results of a critical study of the Old Testament.