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Verse Lamentations 3:66. _PERSECUTE AND DESTROY THEM_] Thou wilt
pursue them with destruction. These are all _declaratory_, not
_imprecatory_.
_FROM UNDER THE HEAVENS OF THE LORD._] This verse seems...
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A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Lamentations 3:55
OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some
consider that Psalms 69
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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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See intr. note....
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For the anticipation of punishment here expressed see on Jeremiah
18:23; C.B. (Kirkpatrick) on Psalms 28:4....
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V. HIS PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE Lamentations 3:55-66
TRANSLATION
(55) I called on Your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit. (56)
You have heard my voice! Do not close Your ear to my sighing, to my...
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Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their
hands. RENDER UNTO THEM A RECOMPENCE - (; , "Alexander the coppersmith
did me much evil; the Lord reward him according to his wor...
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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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FROM UNDER THE HEAVENS OF THE LORD. — The phrase is exceptional, but
it is obviously equivalent to the whole world, considered as God’s
kingdom....
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תִּרְדֹּ֤ף בְּ אַף֙ וְ תַשְׁמִידֵ֔ם
מִ תַּ֖חַ
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_ DE PROFUNDIS_
Lamentations 3:55
As this third elegy-the richest and the most elaborate of the five
that constitute the Book of Lamentations-draws to a close it retains
its curious character of vari...
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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 first asks God to _persecute them in wrath, _that is, to be
implacable to them; for persecution is, when God not only chastises
the wicked for a short time, but when he adds evils to evils, and
acc...
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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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PERSECUTE AND DESTROY THEM IN ANGER,.... As they have persecuted the
people of God, do thou persecute them; and never leave pursuing them
untie thou hast made a full end of them, as the effect of vind...
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the
LORD.
Ver. 66. _Persecute and destroy them in anger._] Since they are thine
and our implacable and irreformable enemies, be thou, Lor...
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_Render to them a recompense_, &c. See note on Jeremiah 11:20. The
verbs in these verses are not in the imperative mood, but all in the
future tense, and certainly should have been so rendered, as ind...
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55-66 Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet
concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man,
drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praise...
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Bring them to a temporal ruin and destruction. How far such petitions
are lawful we have before showed, in our notes on PSALMS 69:22, &c.;
PSALMS 119:6, &c.; Jeremiah 11:20,...
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Lamentations 3:66 anger H639 Pursue H7291 (H8799) destroy H8045
(H8686) heavens H8064 LORD H3068
Persecute -...
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THE PROPHET LOOKS BACK ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES AND CALLS ON YHWH TO
AVENGE HIM (LAMENTATIONS 3:52).
The chapter commenced with the personal experience of the prophet in
Lamentations 3:1 but there it wa...
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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.—
Lamentations 3:59. Trials are not things of the past only. Under their
continuous pressure endurance is sought for in the truth that the eye
and ear of the Lord are ever open for al...
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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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1 Corinthians 16:22; Deuteronomy 2:30; Deuteronomy 27:15; Isaiah 6:10;...
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Persecute — Many passages of this nature which we meet with are
prophecies, some of them may be both prophecies and prayers....