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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
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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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THEIR MUSICK. their mocking song, as in Lamentations 3:14....
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See intr. note....
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_song_ Cp. Job 30:9.
_their sitting down, and their rising up_ their whole course of life.
Cp. Psalms 139:2....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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(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...
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שִׁבְתָּ֤ם וְ קִֽימָתָם֙ הַבִּ֔יטָה
אֲנִ֖י מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃ ס...
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_ 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...
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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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_Up, all their conduct. --- Song. Ver. 14._...
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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
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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....
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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...
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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
su...
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Lamentations 3:63 Look H5027 (H8685) down H3427 (H8800) up H7012 song
H4485
their sitting -...
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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...
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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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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.—
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...
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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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Ezekiel 36:3; Jeremiah 18:18; Psalms 140:3; Psalms 59:12; Psalms 59:7
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I am — At feasts, and at their merry meetings, I am all the subject
of their discourse....