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Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused the arrows of His quiver, the darts of affliction, to enter into my reins, the vital organs of the body, as we now speak of the heart.
He hath caused the arrows of His quiver, the darts of affliction, to enter into my reins, the vital organs of the body, as we now speak of the heart.
Verse 13. _THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER_] בני אשפתו _beney ashpatho_, "The sons of his quiver." The _issue_ or _effect_; the subject, adjunct, or accident, or produce of a thing, is frequently denominated...
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me...
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...
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...
ARROWS. sons. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis._ As "sparks" are called "sons of the flame"....
Jehovah is now likened not to the beast of prey, but to the hunter. Cp. Job 16:12 f....
_shafts_ lit. as mg. the more poetical _sons_. _reins_ See on Jeremiah 12:2....
THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER— _The sons of his quiver._ Houbigant. It is usual in the Hebrew to call the subject, adjunct, accident, effect, &c. the _son_ of that particular thing. Hence it is that the He...
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...
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. HE WAS UNTO ME AS A BEAR LYING IN WAIT, AND AS A LION (; thus fulfilling the threat, "I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopa...
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ARROWS - literally, sons of His quiver (cf. , "The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit"). V...
3:13 arrows (a-5) Lit. 'sons.'...
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...
ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER] RM 'sons of his quiver,' a poetical expression for the enemies' taunts (Jeremiah 20:8). MY REINS] The English equivalent is heart, denoting the seat of the affections (Jeremiah...
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...
THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER. — Literally, _children._ The other side of the analogy appears in Psalms 127:5....
הֵבִיא֙ בְּ כִלְיֹותָ֔י בְּנֵ֖י אַשְׁפָּתֹֽו׃...
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...
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...
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...
He goes on with the same metaphor; he said in the last verse that God had leveled his bow; he now adds, that his arrows had penetrated into his reins, that is, into his inward parts. But we must bear...
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...
HE HATH CAUSED THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER,.... Or, "the sons of his quiver" i; an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression, "v...
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. Ver. 13. _He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins._] _a_ Heb., The sons of his quiver, by a Hebraism. So Horace...
_He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone_ He hath not only hedged it up _with thorns, Hosea 2:6_, but stopped it up with a stone wall which cannot be broken through; so that _my paths_ are _made crook...
ARROWS: _ Heb._ sons...
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...
That is, he hath made his judgments to pierce the most inward parts of the nation; or, he hath mortally wounded me. In the Hebrew it is, _the daughters of his quiver, _ a way of speaking very usual in...
Lamentations 3:13 arrows H1121 quiver H827 pierce H935 (H8689) loins H3629 arrows - Heb. sons, Deuteronomy 32:23
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ד) Lamentations 3:10. Difficulties had been embarrassing, but dangers were also added. In the crooked paths THE BEAR AND THE LION lurked, and he is there, like them, LYING IN WAIT...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 3:1 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE
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,...
Deuteronomy 32:23; Job 41:28; Job 6:4...