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Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, in true contrition, to find the reason for God's displeasure, and turn again to the Lord, returning all the way, in sincere repentance.
Let us search and try our ways, in true contrition, to find the reason for God's displeasure, and turn again to the Lord, returning all the way, in sincere repentance.
Verse 40. _LET US SEARCH_] How are we to get the pardon of our sins? The prophet tells us: 1. Let us examine ourselves. 2. "Let us turn again to the Lord." 3. "Let us lift up our heart;" let us mak...
The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them. Lamentations 3:40 AND TURN AGAIN TO THE LORD - Or, “and return to Yahweh.” The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the...
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...
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_Let us search_ As it is through our sins that this evil is come upon us, let us (40) seek out what has been amiss in us and repent, (41) place ourselves before God in prayer, (42) confess our sin....
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...
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. LET US - Jeremiah and his fellow-countrymen in their calamity. SEARCH - as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward...
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...
OUR HEART WITH _our_ HANDS] strictly, our heart to our palms, in the sense that the heart should actually follow in the direction in which our hands point (Jeremiah 4:31). 43-45 Zion's condition is d...
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...
LET US SEARCH... — Warnings against murmurs are followed by counsels which point to a more excellent way. Suffering calls a man to self-scrutiny. We should seek to know the sins which it is meant to p...
נַחְפְּשָׂ֤ה דְרָכֵ֨ינוּ֙ וְֽ נַחְקֹ֔רָה וְ נָשׁ֖וּבָה...
THE RETURN Lamentations 3:40 WHEN prophets, speaking in the name of God, promised the exiles a restoration to their land and the homes of their fathers, it was always understood and often expressly a...
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...
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....
_THROUGH REPENTANCE TO FAITH_ Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our way...
The Prophet now shews more clearly what the reproof meant which we shortly explained yesterday: he said that men act absurdly while they weary themselves in their sins; he now adds that they would do...
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...
LET US SEARCH AND TRY OUR WAYS,.... stead of murmuring and complaining, let us search for something that may support and comfort, teach and instruct, under afflictive providences; let us search into t...
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. Ver. 40. _Let us search and try our ways,_] _i.e., _ Make accurate inquiry into them; so shall we soon find ourselves to be a whole newly f...
_Let us search and try our ways_ This will be a more reasonable and profitable employment than that of complaining and murmuring against the providence of God. Let us search what our ways have been, a...
37-41 While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, i...
Seeing God doth not grieve us willingly, nor delight to crush us, though we be his prisoners, and seeing the hand of God is in these things upon us, and that justly, to recompense our iniquities into...
Lamentations 3:40 out H2664 (H8799) examine H2713 (H8799) ways H1870 back H7725 (H8799) LORD H3068...
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...
Lamentations 3:40 The prophet calls his countrymen to a work to which they needed to be exhorted and pressed; and well he might do so, for the work of self-examination is not at all an agreeable work....
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.— (נ) Lamentations 3:40. The remnant, who were referred to in Lamentations 3:22, carry out here the suggestion just made, that sighing, not over sufferings but over sins, is the becom...
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 Kings 3:13; 2 Kings 6:32; 2 Samuel 6:7; 2 Samuel 6:8; Ezra 9:13;...