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CHAPTER III
_The prophet, by enumerating his own severe trials_, 1-20,
_and showing his trust in God_, 21,
_encourages his people to the like resignation and trust in the_
_Divine and never-failin...
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THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it....
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CHAPTER 3 THE PROPHET'S SUFFERING AND DISTRESS
This chapter is intensely personal. None but Jeremiah could have
written these wonderful expressions of sorrow, the sorrows of the
people of God into whi...
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LAMENTATIONS 3. THE THIRD LAMENT. Here it is the singer that comes
chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion,
and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lamentation...
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This chapter contains twenty-two verses: each verse having three
lines: each line beginning with the same letter: and so, onward to the
end of the alphabet.
I AM THE MAN. The prophet is representative...
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_by the rod of his wrath_ For the figure cp. Job 9:34; Job 21:9;
Psalms 89:32; Isaiah 10:5. We should notice the absence of God's name...
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I AM THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION— The prophet here speaks
partly in his own character, and partly in that of his countrymen and
fellow-sufferers; and throughout the whole in such a manner as agr...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
A SUFFERING PROPHET
Lamentations 3:1-66
Again in chapter three the poet has adopted the acrostic style but in
a slightly different form from that of the previous Chapter s. In
Ch...
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3:1 (c-0) In this chapter, each verse in every succeeding set of three
begins with the same Hebrew letter; and the whole in alphabetical
order. man (d-4) _ Geber_ ; and so in vers. 27,35,39. see Job 3...
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I _am_ THE MAN] The author is a representative sufferer, an
eye-witness, and typical of Christ....
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ZION'S HOPE IN GOD'S MERCY
This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most
sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but
for the nation. The order of thought is...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 3
JEREMIAH SPEAKS.
In this chapter, the writer speaks on behalf of all God’s people.
Much of what he says is true also of the troub...
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I AM THE MAN. — The lamentation is one of more intense personality.
For that very reason it has been the true inheritance of all mourners,
however widely different in time, country, circumstance, whos...
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אֲנִ֤י הַ גֶּ֨בֶר֙ רָאָ֣ה עֳנִ֔י בְּ
שֵׁ֖בֶט
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THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION
Lamentations 3:1
WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious
point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as
by far th...
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In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself
completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement,
in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows,
re...
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I [am] the man [that] hath seen (a) affliction by the rod of his
wrath.
(a) The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he
endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he decla...
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_Man. Jeremias had a share in the common misery, (Worthington) and
bewails his own condition, as a figure of Christ, Psalm lxxxvii. 16.,
and Isaias liii. 3. (Calmet) --- His disciples must expect to s...
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
The same subject of lamentation runs through the whole of this
Chapter....
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He
hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely
against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the...
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The word, עברה _obere_, properly means assault, passing over
limits; but what is peculiar to man is often in Scripture ascribed to
God. Here also he changes the person, for he spoke before of the
peop...
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In chapter 3 we find the language of faith, of sorrowing faith, of the
Spirit of Christ in the remnant, on the occasion of the judgment of
Jerusalem in which God had dwelt. Before, the prophet (or the...
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I [AM] THE MAN [THAT] HATH SEEN AFFLICTION,.... Had a much experience
of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached
and ill used by his own people, and suffering with them in th...
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I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Ver. 1. _I am the man._] Here Jeremiah, in the name and place of all
the Jewish people, setteth forth his sufferings very passionat...
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_I am the man that hath seen affliction_ I myself have suffered
affliction in this time of public calamity. He speaks, probably, with
a particular regard to the ill treatment he had met with in the
di...
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath, so
Jeremiah writes in setting forth his own experiences as characteristic
of the misery which is often the lot of God's children in the...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his
experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his
trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an afflictio...
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LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 3 The faithful bewail their misery and contempt,
LAMENTATIONS 3:1. They nourish their hope by consideration of the
justice, providence, and mercies of God, LAMENTATIONS 3:22. They...
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Lamentations 3:1 man H1397 seen H7200 (H8804) affliction H6040 rod
H7626 wrath H5678
the man -...
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IN HIS INITIAL DESPAIR THE PROPHET BEWAILS HIS OWN SAD CONDITION
(LAMENTATIONS 3:1).
In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of
His Name being in Lamentations 3:18 where the...
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The literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the
translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the line arranged in couplets or
triplet, each of which begins with a letter of the Hebrew alpha...
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I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very
strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation,
and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read i...
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The first part of this chapter is one of the saddest in the whole Book
of God; yet I expect it has ministered as much consolation as some of
the brightest pages of Holy Writ, because there are childre...
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We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you
are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that
condition.» Well then, be thankful that you are not, and whil...
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CONTENTS: Complaint of God's displeasure and comfort to God's people.
Appeal to God's justice against persecutors.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Bad as things may be, it is owing to the mer...
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The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two
in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It
would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistichs...
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:1 I Am the Man Who Has Seen
Affliction. Chapter Lamentations 3:1 has one speaker, a man who has
endured suffering, expe
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(א) Lamentations 3:1. The author writes as if his own person was the
object on which all the troubles had been inflicted. I AM THE MAN THAT
HATH SEEN AFFLICTION BY THE ROD OF HIS WR...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 3:1
MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH
THAT OF THE
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In this third lamentation he begins from the depth of depression and
despair. He begins with hopelessness, and hopelessness is always the
experience behind depression. Depression is the loss of hope,...
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Isaiah 53:3; Jeremiah 15:17; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 20:14;...
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I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people,
who were before set out under the notion of a woman....