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The deep sympathy of the prophet, which pours itself forth in abundant
tears over the distress of his people.
Lamentations 3:51
Or, “Mine eye” causeth pain to my soul, i. e. maketh my soul ache,
beca...
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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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_ceaseth not_ Cp. Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 14:17....
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See intr. note....
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IV. HIS PERSONAL SUFFERING Lamentations 3:48-54
TRANSLATION
(48) With streams of water my eyes flow because of the destruction of
the daughter of my people. (49) My eyes flow without ceasing, without...
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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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TRICKLETH DOWN. — Better, _poureth down.
_...
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עֵינִ֧י נִגְּרָ֛ה וְ לֹ֥א תִדְמֶ֖ה מֵ
אֵ֥ין
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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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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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He repeats the same in other words, — that his eyes flowed down with
tears. He still retains the singular number, but this is common in
Hebrew. He then says, that _his eye without end flowed down, so...
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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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MINE EYE TRICKLETH DOWN, AND CEASETH NOT,.... From weeping, as the
Targum: the prophet was continually weeping; the distresses of his
people were always uppermost in his mind; and which so affected hi...
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Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Ver. 49. _Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not._] Put fire under
the still, and water droppeth from roses. Fiery afflictions ca...
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_Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water_ In this and the three
following verses the prophet shows that the misfortunes of his country
constituted no small part of his personal affliction. _Mine ey...
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Mine eye trickleth down, in a steady flow of tears, AND CEASETH NOT,
WITHOUT ANY INTERMISSION, there being no abatement of the feeling of
grief and therefore also no cessation of tears,...
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CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
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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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The prophet was deeply affected upon the prospect of this evil before
it came, JEREMIAH 9:1, and was now much more affected when he saw the
judgment was come; he wept plentifully and constantly, as fo...
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Lamentations 3:49 eyes H5869 flow H5064 (H8738) cease H1820 (H8799)
interruption H2014
and -...
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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.—
(פ) Lamentations 3:46 present significant intimations of their base
condition. ENEMIES making sport of them FEAR AND PITFALLS surrounding
them, and the oft-recurring feeling of utt...
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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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Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 9:18;...
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Mine eye — The prophet speaks this of himself....