Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Lamentations 3:52
As boys beat a bird from bush to bush, suffering it to rest no where, so mine enemies, to whom I gave no cause, pursued me.
As boys beat a bird from bush to bush, suffering it to rest no where, so mine enemies, to whom I gave no cause, pursued me.
Verse 52. _MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME_] From this to the end of the chapter the prophet speaks of his own personal sufferings, and especially of those which he endured in the _dungeon_. See Jeremiah 38:6,...
Or, “They who without cause are mine enemies have hunted me sore like a bird.” Probably the prophet is speaking of his personal sorrows....
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There is a possible reference on the part of the writer to Jeremiah 38:6, but this is rendered unlikely by the fact that the "dungeon" had no water in it, and thus Lamentations 3:54 is inapplicable. T...
See intr. note....
MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME— The prophet in this and the following verses describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him, and cast him into the dungeon. See Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 37:15. He com...
IV. HIS PERSONAL SUFFERING Lamentations 3:48-54 TRANSLATION (48) With streams of water my eyes flow because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. (49) My eyes flow without ceasing, without...
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME SORE, LIKE A BIRD - which is destitute of counsel and strength. The allusion seems to be to (Calvin). WITHOUT CAUSE -...
3:52 me (a-10) Or 'Mine enemies have without cause chased me.'...
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WITHOUT CAUSE... — The words connect themselves in the Hebrew with “mine enemies” (comp. Psalms 35:7; Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4), and it has been inferred from this that Jeremiah speaks not of the Cha...
צֹ֥וד צָד֛וּנִי כַּ † צִּפֹּ֖ור אֹיְבַ֥י חִנָּֽם׃
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We shall see to the end of the chapter the various complaints, by which the Prophet deplored the miseries of his own nation, that he might at length obtain the mercy of God. He takes here the comparis...
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...
MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME SORE LIKE A BIRD,.... That is weak and helpless, fearful and timorous; that flees from place to place when pursued; so it was with the prophet, or rather with the people of the...
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Ver. 52. _Mine enemies chased me sore._] In a most eager and extreme manner, with utmost cruelty and craft. _ As a bird._] Beaten from bush t...
_Mine enemies chased me sore_ “The prophet in this, and the following verses, describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him and put him into the dungeon, Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah 38:6. He...
CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
Mine enemies chased me sore, hunting him down like fowlers, LIKE A BIRD, WITHOUT CAUSE. Cf Proverbs 1:17....
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Lamentations 3:52 enemies H341 (H8802) cause H2600 Hunted H6679 (H8804) H6679 (H8800) bird H6833...
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Lamentations 3:52. _Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off...
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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.— (צ) Lamentations 3:52. THEY HAVE HUNTED ME DOWN LIKE A BIRD is hunted when pursued with the eagerness of THOSE WHO ARE MY ENEMIES WITHOUT CAUSE, and who will not relax efforts till...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 3:1 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE
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1 Samuel 30:3; 1 Samuel 30:4; Genesis 44:34; Jeremiah 11:22; J