Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Ver. 38. Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?] i.e., Prosperity and adversity; q.d., Who doubteth of that? Amo 3:5 Isa 45:7 Talk not then of fate and blind fortune.
Why then does a loving God, who disapproves of suffering when inflicted by man upon man, Himself send sorrow and misery? “Because of sins.” Lamentations 3:37 Literally, “Who is this that spake and i...
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...
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The order of thought in this group is, All events are absolutely in the hands of God. Thus calamity and prosperity come in response to His command. But it is man's sin that procures for him the former...
Cp. Isaiah 45:7; Amos 3:6....
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...
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? WHO IS HE THAT SAITH, AND IT COMETH TO PASS. A double question is implied, Who is it that can (as God, ) effect by a word...
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...
(37-39) New grounds of patient faith are given: (1) In an echo from Psalms 33:9, affirming the sovereignty of God. The evil which He permits is under the control of this loving purpose; and (2) as far...
מִ פִּ֤י עֶלְיֹון֙ לֹ֣א תֵצֵ֔א הָ רָעֹ֖ות
GOD AND EVIL Lamentations 3:37 THE eternal problem of the relation of God to evil is here treated with the keenest discrimination. That God is the supreme and irresistible ruler, that no man can succ...
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...
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not (s) evil and good? (s) That is, adversity and prosperity, (Amos 3:6)....
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....
_THROUGH REPENTANCE TO FAITH_ Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our way...
The Prophet says that _from the mouth of the most High proceed good and evil _By “mouth” he means his decree. God indeed does not always declare that he is a judge; he has often executed punishment on...
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...
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE MOST HIGH PROCEED NOT EVIL AND GOOD?] Certainly they do; they come to pass, both one and the other, as God has pronounced, and his will determined; even "evils", as it is in th...
_Who is he that saith_ That commands an event to take place, or predicts that it shall take place, _and it cometh to pass_ accordingly, _when the Lord commandeth not?_ Or who designs a thing, and brin...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? so that the one as well as the other is done by His command or permission....
37-41 While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, i...
In the Hebrew the form of these words is interrogatory, as much as if he should say, Doth not evil come out of God's mouth from his direction and command, and from his providence, as well as good? He...
Lamentations 3:38 mouth H6310 High H5945 woe H7451 well-being H2896 proceed H3318 (H8799) Jo
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...
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.— (מ) Lamentations 3:37. The reason for not mentioning any name of God, as in Lamentations 3:1, is now wholly dispensed with, and He is presented as conditionating all events. He obse...
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,...
Daniel 4:35; Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 46:10; James 4:13; Proverbs 16:9
Evil — Doth not evil or trouble come out of God's mouth from his direction, and providence, as well as good?...