He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him, submitting even to injustice if it serves the cause of the Lord, Cf Matthew 5:39; he is filled full with reproach, enduring also the scorn which men heap upon him for his trust in God. Note the climax beginning with the easiest matter and ending with the most difficult, the patient bearing of insults, if it serves the glory of the Lord.
Verse 30. _HE GIVETH_ HIS _CHEEK TO HIM THAT SMITETH_] He has that love that is not provoked. He is not quarrelsome, nor apt to resent injuries; he suffers long and is kind. Or, it may be rendered, "l...
Translate: Let him sit alone and keep silence; For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him. Let him place his mouth in the dust; Perchance there is hope. Let him offer his cheek
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...
GIVETH HIS CHEEK. Compare Isaiah 50:6....
See intr. note....
_Let him give his cheek_ Cp. Job 16:10; Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 5:39....
HE GIVETH HIS CHEEK, &C.— He not only humbles himself in the sight of his Maker, but also bears with patience the ill-treatment of men. See Matthew 26:62.Mark 14:65....
B. Reflections About Suffering Lamentations 3:26-39 TRANSLATION (26) It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. (27) It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his yout...
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. HE ... KEEPETH SILENCE - the fruit of true docility and patience. He does not fight against the yoke, "as a bullock unaccustom...
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...
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...
HE GIVETH HIS CHEEK... — The submission enjoined reaches its highest point — a patience like that of Job 16:10; we may add, like that of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:39.) It was harder to accept...
יִתֵּ֧ן לְ מַכֵּ֛הוּ לֶ֖חִי יִשְׂבַּ֥ע בְּ חֶ
QUIET WAITING Lamentations 3:25 HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy. Pursuing the ideas that flow out of the great truth of the endless goodness of God, and the imme...
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...
_Him. We cannot verify this of the prophet as we can of Christ, (Matthew xxvi. 62.; Calmet) to whom this particularly refers. (Worthington)_...
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....
Here he mentions another fruit of patience, that the faithful, even when injuries are done to them by the wicked, would yet be calm and resigned. For there are many who submit to God when they perceiv...
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 GIVETH [HIS] CHEEK TO HIM THAT SMITETH HIM,.... Either to God that afflicts him, and patiently bears it; see Isaiah 9:13; or rather to men. To be smitten on the cheek is always reckoned a very grea...
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. Ver. 30. _He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him._] Humility, the product of affliction sanctified, is still at he...
_It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth_ That he be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedience...
21-36 Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. We should observe what makes...
According to our Saviour's precept, MATTHEW 5:39, he doth not take any private revenge; he is reproached and reviled, but when he is so he _revileth not again_, 1 PETER 2:23; he is filled with reproac...
Lamentations 3:30 give H5414 (H8799) cheek H3895 strikes H5221 (H8688) full H7646 (H8799) reproach H2781
THE PROPHET PRAYS HIS WAY THROUGH TO CONFIDENCE IN YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 3:19). When our souls have reached their lowest point there is only one thing to do, and that is to cast ourselves on God. That i...
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...
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...
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...
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.— (י) Lamentations 3:28. A yoke is not of itself beneficial; it must be borne along with desires and efforts to reach to its purpose. “Since it is good for man that he should learn to...
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,...
2 Corinthians 11:20; Isaiah 50:6; Job 16:10; Luke 6:29; Micah 5:1;...