Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Lamentations 3:31
This is that which beareth up his spirits, that though the Lord may for a time estrange himself from his people, yet he will not always forsake them.
This is that which beareth up his spirits, that though the Lord may for a time estrange himself from his people, yet he will not always forsake them.
Verse 31. _THE LORD_] אדני _Adonai_; but one of my ancient MSS. has יהוה _Jehovah_. The above verse is quoted in reference to our Lord's passion, by Matthew 26:62....
Reasons for the resignation urged in the previous triplet....
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...
THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ say they altered "Jehovah" of the primitive text to "Adonai". See App-32. Here some codices, with two early printed editions, also read "Jehovah"....
See intr. note....
Cp. Psalms 30:5 (with mg.), Psalms 77:7 ff., Psalms 103:9; Isaiah 57:16; Micah 7:1
This group contains the three thoughts which produce the resignation, (_a_) because punishment will be only for a time (cp. Isaiah 54:8), (_b_) because God is by nature merciful, (_c_) because even in...
DISCOURSE: 1094 COMFORT FOR THE AFFLICTED Lamentations 3:31. _The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. Fo...
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...
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF FOREVER. True repentance is never without hope (). Verse 32. THOUGH HE CAUSE GRIEF, YET WILL HE HAVE COMPASSION ACCORDING TO THE MU...
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...
FOR THE LORD... — The counsels of submission are followed by the grounds of hope. The first, a quotation from Psalms 77:7, had been of old a favourite thought of the writer’s (Jeremiah 3:5; Jeremiah 3...
כִּ֣י לֹ֥א יִזְנַ֛ח לְ עֹולָ֖ם אֲדֹנָֽי׃...
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...
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....
It is certain that there will be no patience, except there be hope, as it has already appeared. As, then, patience cherishes hope, so hope is the foundation of patience; and hence consolation is, acco...
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...
FOR THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF FOR EVER. Which is not to be understood of all his creatures; for there are some he does cast off for ever, as the angels that sinned; reprobate men, profligate and aban...
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: Ver. 31. _For the Lord will not cast off for ever._] No, not at all, however he may seem to some so to do. _Non deserit etiamsi deserat,_ saith a father: He d...
_The Lord will not cast off for ever_ The truly penitent that put their trust in him, and sincerely desire and seek reconciliation with him: though he may for a time appear to estrange himself from th...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
For the Lord will not cast off forever, Cf Psalms 77:8;...
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...
Lamentations 3:31 Lord H136 off H2186 (H8799) forever H5769 1 Samuel 12:22;...
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
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:31 NOT CAST OFF FOREVER. God’s anger is temporary (Psalms 103:9). He judges people to bring them to repentance and ren
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (כ) Lamentations 3:31. For this silent waiting on the Lord, amid humiliations and scorn, there is all-sufficient strength. It is in the Lord Himself, in the belief that He is at wor...
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,...
1 Samuel 12:22; Isaiah 54:7; Isaiah 57:16; Jeremiah 31:37; J