That is, at all times, when they sit down and rise up, I am their song. Though probably the words have a special reference to their sitting down at feasts, and at their merry meetings. I am all the subject of their discourse, they spend their time in mocking and scoffing at us, and at Jerusalem; we are they that make them sport.
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
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...
THEIR MUSICK. their mocking song, as in Lamentations 3:14....
See intr. note....
_song_ Cp. Job 30:9. _their sitting down, and their rising up_ their whole course of life. Cp. Psalms 139:2....
I AM THEIR MUSICK— _The subject of their songs._ See Lamentations 3:14 and Houbigant; who renders the three following verses, as do many other versions, in the future tense. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The prop...
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...
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; THOU HAST HEARD THEIR REPROACH - their reproachful language against me. Verse 62. THE LIPS - the speeches. Verse 63. BE...
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...
MUSICK] RV 'song.' 64-66. AV by translating the imperfect tenses of the verbs in this triplet as imperatives, makes the language appear harsher than it really is; still it must be allowed that the poe...
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...
(63) THEIR SITTING DOWN, AND THEIR RISING UP... — The two words, as in Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 11:19; Psalms 139:2; include the whole daily and hourly conduct of those spoken of. I AM THEIR MUSIC...
שִׁבְתָּ֤ם וְ קִֽימָתָם֙ הַבִּ֔יטָה אֲנִ֖י מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃ ס...
_ 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...
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...
_Up, all their conduct. --- Song. Ver. 14._...
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....
The Prophet repeats still the same thing, only in other words. He had spoken of the lyings in wait, and the conspiracies and the speeches of his enemies; he now adds, that nothing was hid from God. By...
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...
BEHOLD THEIR SITTING DOWN, AND THEIR RISING UP,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience, Psalms 139:2; but that is not barely here meant; bu...
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick. Ver. 63. _Behold their sitting down, and their rising up._] Or, At their both sitting down (to eat), and at their rising up (from...
_O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong_ Here the prophet adverts to his present sufferings, and the ill usage he met with, concerning which he appeals to God; as if he had said, Thou hast seen that I have d...
Behold their sitting down and their rising up, observing all the conduct and doing of the enemies; I AM THEIR MUSIC, the object of their derisive songs....
PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
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...
Lamentations 3:63 Look H5027 (H8685) down H3427 (H8800) up H7012 song H4485 their sitting -...
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...
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...
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 3:59. 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...
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,...
Ezekiel 36:3; Jeremiah 18:18; Psalms 140:3; Psalms 59:12; Psalms 59:7
I am — At feasts, and at their merry meetings, I am all the subject of their discourse....