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Lamentations 4:20

King James Version (KJV)

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Lamentations 4:20

Verse 20 of 22

Scripture focus

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Lamentations 4:20 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Lamentations 4:20

Theological / Devotional

Breath of our nostrils. Some find here a reference to King Zedekiah. Others have been disturbed that Jeremiah could seem to attach such high honor to the memory of a king whom he elsewhere so bitterly castigates. However, the prophet is not here speaking of Zedekiah as a man, but of the king as the “anointed of the Lord,” the divinely appointed head of the nation (see 1 Sam. 24:5, 6; 26:9, 11; 2 Sam. 1:14, 16).

We shall live. Possibly, the followers of Zedekiah had entertained the vain hope that by escaping from the doomed city, they might maintain some kind of independence in the Wilderness of Judah, or in Transjordan (see on Jer. 39:4, 5).

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