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In verses 43-66, far from pardoning, God is still actively punishing
His people.
Rather, “Thou hast covered” Thyself “with wrath and pursued
(Lamentations 1:3 note) us.” The covering (here and in Lame...
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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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PERSECUTED. pursued. Compare Psalms 35:6....
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_covered_ mg., better, _covered_thyself. Thou hast clothed thyself in
wrath. This accords with the next line....
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See intr. note....
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THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, &C.— _Thou hast fenced about with
anger._ The verb סכךֶ _sakak_ appears to have this sense, Job
3:23; Job 10:11; Job 38:8. There seems to be a manifest allusion to
the ma...
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III. HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE Lamentations 3:40-47
TRANSLATION
(40) Let us search and examine our ways and return to the LORD. (41)
Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in heaven: (42) We ha...
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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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THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER. — Better, as in the next verse, _Thou
hast covered thyself._ Wrath is as the garment in which God wraps
Himself to execute His righteous judgments. In Lamentations 3:44 t...
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סַכֹּ֤תָה בָ † אַף֙ וַֽ
תִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ...
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GRIEVING BEFORE GOD
Lamentations 3:43
AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the
patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the
vision of it has not...
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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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_Covered thyself, as if not to see our distress._...
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They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my
portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good
unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him....
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At the first view, this complaint may seem to proceed from a bitter
heart; for here the faithful complain that they had been slain, and
then that God had executed his judgment as it were in darkness,...
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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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THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER,.... Either himself; not as a tender
father, that cannot bear to see the affliction of a child; this does
not suit with anger; but rather as one greatly displeased, in who...
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Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou
hast not pitied.
Ver. 43. _Thou hast covered with anger._] Overwhelmed us with thy
judgments. None out of hell have ever suffere...
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_We have transgressed_, &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the
effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be
convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us that...
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CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
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Thou hast covered with anger, shutting Himself off so as not to see
them, AND PERSECUTED US. The veil of His wrath kept Him, as it were,
from feeling a weak sympathy. THOU HAST SLAIN. THOU HAST NOT PI...
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42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was
grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping,
they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
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THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER; either thou hast covered thyself with
anger, or covered thy own face with anger, so as not to look upon us
to move thy pity; or (which is more probably the sense) thou ha...
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Lamentations 3:43 covered H5526 (H8804) anger H639 pursued H7291
(H8799) slain H2026 (H8804) pitied H2550 ...
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THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE
SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO
PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40).
The prophet now calls on the peopl...
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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.—
(ס) Lamentations 3:43. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, whether Himself
or us is not clear, but as the next clause, AND PURSUED US, mentions
the latter, it may be preferable to regard...
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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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2 Kings 24:4; Daniel 9:5; Ezekiel 24:13; Jeremiah 3:13; Jeremiah 5:7;