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IS HE TURNED; HE TURNETH - Or, “surely against me” hath he turned
“his hand” again and again “all the day long.”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. I
AM THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION - Jeremiah's own affliction in
the dungeon of Malchiah (): that of his countrymen also in the...
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I _am_ THE MAN] The author is a representative sufferer, an
eye-witness, and typical of Christ....
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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...
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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...
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AGAINST ME IS HE TURNED. — Better, _against me He turneth His hand
again and again,_ the first verb being one of frequentative action,
and giving that significance to the second....
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אַ֣ךְ בִּ֥י יָשֻׁ֛ב יַהֲפֹ֥ךְ יָדֹ֖ו
כָּל ־הַ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Now he says that _God was an adversary to him; _for this is what the
verb ישב,_isheb, _means, he is turned against me. As an enemy, when
intending to fight, comes to meet one from the opposite side, s...
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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...
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SURELY AGAINST ME IS HE TURNED,.... As an enemy, who used to be a
friend; he has so altered and changed the course of his providence, as
if his favour and affections were wholly removed; he has plante...
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_Surely against me is he turned_ The course of his providence toward
me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now
exercises an afflicting hand against me, and that not occasionally,...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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Surely against me is He turned, in continual and severe chastisements;
HE TURNETH HIS HAND AGAINST ME ALL THE DAY, smiting without ceasing....
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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...
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The course of God's providence toward me is quite altered, his hand,
that is, his power, which was wont to be with me, and for me, against
my enemies, is now turned against me; nor is it for a moment,...
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Lamentations 3:3 turned H7725 (H8799) H2015 (H8799) hand H3027 day
H3117...
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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(א) Lamentations 3:1. The author writes as if his own person was the
object on which all the troubles had been inflicted. I AM THE MAN THAT
HATH SEEN AFFLICTION BY THE ROD OF HIS WR...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 3:1
MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH
THAT OF THE
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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,...
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Deuteronomy 29:20; Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 63:10; Job 31:21; Lament