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The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah

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The first half offers close literary and theological commentary on a biblical love-poem, weighing its structural puzzles, springtime imagery, pastoral versus courtly contrasts, tests of affection, and various mystical and canonical interpretations. The second half turns to a set of elegies, tracing their origin and providing verse-by-verse exegesis that attends to themes of desolation, communal guilt and suffering, prophetic failure, anguished appeals and prayer, and the interplay of judgment and hope. Throughout the commentary the writer balances detailed textual and linguistic observation with pastoral reflection, moving between close analysis and broader meditations on grief, repentance, and consolation.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] To be considered later. See chap. iv.

[2] 1 Kings i. 3.

[3] i. 9.

[4] iv. 9.

[5] viii. 6, 7.

[6] 1 Kings xi. 3.

[7] vi. 4.

[8] 1 Kings xiv. 17.

[9] 1 Kings xvi. 18, 23, 24.

[10] vi. 13.

[11] ii. 1.

[12] iv. 1.

[13] i. 14.

[14] iii. 9; iv. 8, 15; vii. 4.

[15] iv. 8.

[16] See Ency. Brit., Art. "Canticles," by Robertson Smith.

[17] i. 2.

[18] i. 3.

[19] i. 4.

[20] i. 5.

[21] i. 6.

[22] See viii. 12.

[23] i. 9—ii. 6.

[24] i. 15.

[25] i. 16, 17.

[26] ii. 1.

[27] ii. 2.

[28] ii. 3.

[29] ii. 4.

[30] ii. 5.

[31] ii. 6.

[32] ii. 7.

[33] See Gen. xxx. 14.

[34] ii. 14.

[35] ii. 9.

[36] ii. 11-13.

[37] ii. 15.

[38] ii. 16.

[39] ii. 17.

[40] iii. 1-4.

[41] iii. 5.

[42] iii. 6-11.

[43] iv. 6.

[44] iv. 8-15.

[45] iv. 16.

[46] v. 1.

[47] v. 2-7.

[48] v. 8.

[49] v. 9.

[50] v. 10-16.

[51] vi. 1.

[52] vi. 2.

[53] vi. 3.

[54] Page 20.

[55] vi. 4-7.

[56] vi. 8, 9.

[57] vi. 10.

[58] Vers. 11, 12.

[59] vi. 13. This is obscured in the Authorised Version.

[60] vii. 1-9.

[61] vii 1.

[62] vii. 10.

[63] vii. 11-13.

[64] viii. 11.

[65] viii. 1.

[66] viii. 1.

[67] viii. 2.

[68] viii. 2.

[69] viii. 3.

[70] viii. 4.

[71] viii. 5.

[72] viii. 6, 7.

[73] viii. 11.

[74] i. 6.

[75] viii. 12.

[76] viii. 13.

[77] viii. 14.

[78] E.g. Exod. xxxiv. 15, 16; Numb. xv. 39; Psalm lxxiii. 27; Ezek. xvi. 23, etc.

[79] E.g. Jer. iii. 1-11.

[80] Hosea ii. 2.; iii. 3.

[81] John iii. 29.

[82] Mark. ii. 19.

[83] Matt. xxii. 1-14.

[84] Eph. v. 22-33.

[85] Rev. xxi. 9.

[86] Gen. xxix. 20.

[87] i. 6.

[88] iii. 22.

[89] Amos v. 2.

[90] Isa. xiv. 4 ff.

[91] E.g., Psalms ix., x., xxv., xxxiv., xxxvii., cxix., cxlv.

[92] Jer. viii. 18.

[93] Jer. ix. 1.

[94] iv. 17.

[95] iv. 20.

[96] Jer. lii. 2, 3.

[97] ii. 9.

[98] E.g. Jer. xlii. 7.

[99] ii. 20.

[100] ii. 14.

[101] E.g. Ezek. xii. 24, xiii. 6, 7, xxii. 28.

[102] Lam. ii. 15.

[103] Ezek. xxvii. 3, xxviii. 12.

[104] See Jer. xxvi. 24, xxix. 3ff, xl. 5.

[105] ע and פ.

[106] v. 20.

[107] Neh. ii. 3.

[108] i. 1-11.

[109] i. 12-22.

[110] i. 2.

[111] Jer. xxxix. 4, 5.

[112] Isa. i. 10-17.

[113] Dan. xi. 31.

[114] Mark xiii. 14.

[115] i. 12.

[116] Luke xxiii. 28.

[117] i. 13.

[118] i. 13.

[119] Ibid.

[120] i. 14.

[121] i. 15.

[122] i. 16.

[123] i. 17.

[124] i. 18.

[125] i. 18.

[126] i. 18, 19.

[127] i. 20-2.

[128] i. 9, 11.

[129] i. 21.

[130] See i. 2, 9, 16, 17, 21.

[131] i. 16.

[132] Mark xv. 34.

[133] ii. 1.

[134] ii. 1.

[135] Matt. xi. 23.

[136] ii. 2.

[137] ii. 4.

[138] ii. 6.

[139] ii. 7.

[140] Psalm vii. 11.

[141] Matt. x. 34.

[142] Heb. xii. 29.

[143] ii. 9.

[144] See next chapter.

[145] ii. 10.

[146] ii. 11, 12.

[147] Luke xiii 1-5.

[148] ii. 15.

[149] ii. 16.

[150] ii. 17.

[151] Luke xiii. 20.

[152] ii. 13.

[153] See Jer. xlii. 4, 7.

[154] See 1 Sam. iii. 1.

[155] Isa. xlii. 1.

[156] ii. 14.

[157] Numb. xxiv. 13.

[158] ii. 14.

[159] Psalm vi. 6.

[160] Psalm xxii. 14.

[161] St. Paul, by Frederick Myers.

[162] Heb. v. 8, 9.

[163] iii. 2.

[164] iii. 3.

[165] iii. 4.

[166] The Authorised Version has "travel," a mere variation in spelling. The word means painful labour, toil.

[167] iii. 4.

[168] iii. 6.

[169] iii. 7.

[170] iii. 8.

[171] iii. 9.

[172] iii. 10.

[173] iii. 11.

[174] iii. 12.

[175] iii. 13.

[176] iii. 14.

[177] iii. 15.

[178] iii. 16.

[179] iii. 17.

[180] iii. 18.

[181] iii. 21.

[182] iii. 40-8.

[183] Heb. ii. 18, iv. 15.

[184] Heb. ii. 18, iv. 15.

[185] Prov. viii. 17.

[186] Jer. xiv. 21.

[187] Psalm lxxiii. 26.

[188] iii. 26.

[189] Matt. v. 45.

[190] vii. 7, 8.

[191] James iv. 2.

[192] iii. 27.

[193] iii. 29.

[194] iii. 30.

[195] iii. 31, 32

[196] iii. 33.

[197] iii. 34-6.

[198] Gen. xviii. 25.

[199] iii. 32.

[200] Wisdom ii. 23 ff.

[201] Rev. xii. 9.

[202] Job i. 6-12, ii. 1-7.

[203] Zech. iii. 1, 2.

[204] 1 Chron. xxi. 1.

[205] Luke xiii. 16.

[206] 2 Cor. xii. 7.

[207] 1 Thess. ii. 18.

[208] Rom. vi. 23.

[209] iii. 39.

[210] Isa. lxiii. 9.

[211] Luke xv. 21.

[212] 1 John i. 9.

[213] iii. 44.

[214] iii. 45.

[215] iii. 46.

[216] iii. 47.

[217] iii. 48 ff.

[218] iii. 51.

[219] iii. 48.

[220] iii. 52 ff.

[221] Jer. xxxviii. 6.

[222] iii. 50.

[223] iii. 57.

[224] Psalm xxxiv. 6.

[225] Gen. xv. 1.

[226] Isa. xli. 14.

[227] Mark vi. 50.

[228] John xiv. 27.

[229] Rev. i. 17, 18.

[230] iii. 58.

[231] iii. 59.

[232] iii. 60-3.

[233] iii. 65.

[234] 2 Kings xxv. 9.

[235] iv. 1.

[236] iv. 2.

[237] iv. 7.

[238] iv. 3.

[239] iv. 4.

[240] iv. 5.

[241] iv. 6.

[242] iv. 7.

[243] iv. 7. "Hair," According to a slight emendation of the text recommended by recent criticism.

[244] iv. 8.

[245] So perhaps we should understand ver. 9, applying the last clause to the fallen warriors. In the Revised Version, however, rendered so as to refer to the famished people who pine away for lack of the fruits of the earth. Yet another rendering is "fade away ... like the growth of the fields."

[246] iv. 10.

[247] iv. 11.

[248] Heb. xii. 29.

[249] Matt. iii. 12.

[250] iv. 12.

[251] ii. 9, 14.

[252] Jer. vi. 13; viii. 10; xxiii. 11, 14; xxvi. 7 ff.

[253] Jer. vi. 14; viii. 11.

[254] Ezek. iii. 16-21.

[255] Lev. xiii. 45.

[256] Isa. xxxvi. 6.

[257] Jer. xxxvii. 7, 8.

[258] Heb. iv. 9.

[259] iv. 18.

[260] Jer. iv. 13

[261] 2 Kings xxv. 4, 5; Jer. xxxix. 4, 5.

[262] iv. 20.

[263] Ezek. xxv. 12-14.

[264] Page 269.

[265] iii. 39.

[266] ii. 17.

[267] Isa. liii. 4-6.

[268] Rom. ii. 4.

[269] Acts v. 31.

[270] For example, Jer. xiv. 7.

[271] John xiv. 18.

[272] v. 4.

[273] v. 5.

[274] v. 6.

[275] 1 Peter ii. 24.

[276] Page 151.

[277] Heb. ii. 10.

[278] Ezek. xviii. 3, 4.

[279] v. 8.

[280] v. 9.

[281] v. 10.

[282] Psalm lxxiii. 17.

[283] Lam. iii. 65.

[284] v. 13.

[285] v. 14.

[286] v. 15, 16.

[287] v. 16.

[288] Jer. xvii. 9.

[289] 1 John i. 9.

[290] James v. 16.

[291] 1 Peter iv. 8.

[292] Rom. xiv. 4.

[293] v. 17.

[294] ver. 18

[295] Heb. xii. 27.