Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Lamentations 3:45
That is, thou hast made us to all nations extremely contemptible, so as they value us no more than the sweepings of their houses, or the most vile, refuse, and contemptible things imaginable.
That is, thou hast made us to all nations extremely contemptible, so as they value us no more than the sweepings of their houses, or the most vile, refuse, and contemptible things imaginable.
Omit “as.”...
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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...
PEOPLE. peoples....
See intr. note....
For the thought cp. Nahum 3:6; 1 Corinthians 4:13. It was exemplified in the Middle Ages in England and elsewhere (see _Ivanhoe_) and is still to be seen in Eastern Europe in the _Judenhetze_....
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IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE. — Literally, _peoples: i.e.,_ the heathen nations of the world. A like phrase meets us in 1 Corinthians 4:13....
סְחִ֧י וּ מָאֹ֛וס תְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּ בְּ קֶ֥רֶב הָ
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of it has not...
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....
They say here that they were exposed to reproach, so as to become, as it were, the sweepings of the world. Some render סחי, _sachi_, “refuse;” some by other words; and some “filth:” But the word prope...
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...
THOU HAST MADE US [AS] THE OFFSCOURING AND REFUSE IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE. Had given them up into the hands of the Gentiles, the Chaldeans, to be treated as the dirt of the streets, as the sweeping...
Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. Ver. 45. _Thou hast made us as the offscouring._] _Eradicationem,_ saith the Vulgate; _rasuram potius,_ not the rooting o...
_We have transgressed_, &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us that...
CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
Thou hast made us, by refusing His assistance, AS THE OFF-SCOURING AND REFUSE IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE. Israel, ground down to the dust, had become an object of contempt among the heathen nations....
42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
Lamentations 3:45 made H7760 (H8799) offscouring H5501 refuse H3973 midst H7130 peoples H5971 as -...
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...
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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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ס) Lamentations 3:43. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, whether Himself or us is not clear, but as the next clause, AND PURSUED US, mentions the latter, it may be preferable to regard...
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,...
Jeremiah 14:11; Jeremiah 15:1; Lamentations 3:8; Psalms 80:4; Psal