Peace here signifieth prosperity, rather than a freedom from war. Though during the siege they were far from peace in a strict sense, yet in their captivity they had that peace; but both their minds were far off from quiet, and their persons from prosperity: the prophet owneth God as the cause of this. They had in Canaan lived prosperously, but now they thought of it no more, nor understood what such a thing meant.
Verse 17. _THOU HAST REMOVED MY SOUL_] Prosperity is at such an utter distance from me, that it is impossible I should ever reach it; and as to _happiness_, I have forgotten whether I have ever tasted...
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...
_thou hast removed_(mg. _cast off) my soul_ The change to the second person is abrupt. LXX have "he has thrust away," the Syr. (and so Targ.) "my soul is thrust away," but, as Pe. remarks, this is imp...
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 hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. HE HATH ... BROKEN MY TEETH WITH GRAVEL - referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the c...
BROKEN MY TEETH WITH GRAVEL STONES] i.e. God has forced him to eat bread full of grit. (Proverbs 20:17). HE HATH COVERED ME WITH ASHES] or, 'He made me cower in the ashes.' Such dreadful thoughts abou...
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...
THOU HAST REMOVED MY SOUL FAR OFF FROM PEACE. — The verb is found in this sense in Psalms 88:14. By some critics it is taken as passive, and in the 3rd person feminine. _My soul loathes peace, i.e.,_...
וַ תִּזְנַ֧ח מִ שָּׁלֹ֛ום נַפְשִׁ֖י נָשִׁ֥יתִי...
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...
By saying that his _soul was remote from peace, _he means that no good remained; for by peace, as it is well known, the Hebrews understood every kind of prosperity. And he explains himself by another...
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...
AND THOU HAST REMOVED MY SOUL FAR OFF FROM PEACE,.... From the time the city was besieged by the Chaldeans, and now the people was carried captive; who could have no true peace, being in a foreign lan...
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. Ver. 17. _And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace._] Prosperity and I are twain; we are utterly unacquainted....
_I was a derision to all my people_ To all the wicked among them, who made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public judgments; _and their song all the day_ Hebrew, נגינתם, their instr...
A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
And Thou hast removed my soul far off from peace, thrusting it back from happiness; I FORGAT PROSPERITY, the very recollection of it no longer being present with him....
PROSPERITY: _ Heb._ good...
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...
Lamentations 3:17 moved H2186 soul H5315 far H2186 (H8799) peace H7965 forgotten H5382 (H8804) prosperity H289
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...
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.— Lamentations 3:14. The figure is hardly changed. Perhaps A LAUGHING-STOCK TO ALL MY PEOPLE, THEIR SONG ALL THE DAY, may be regarded as the shaft which went to the quick. Jeremiah ca...
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,...
Genesis 41:30; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 59:11; Jeremiah