He repeats the same in other words, — that his eyes flowed down with tears. He still retains the singular number, but this is common in Hebrew. He then says, that his eye without end flowed down, so that there was no rest But it afterwards follows —
The deep sympathy of the prophet, which pours itself forth in abundant tears over the distress of his people. Lamentations 3:51 Or, “Mine eye” causeth pain to my soul, i. e. maketh my soul ache, beca...
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...
See intr. note....
_ceaseth not_ Cp. Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 14:17....
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 eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, WITHOUT ANY INTERMISSION - or else, 'because there is no intermission' (Piscator), namely, of my miseries. Verse 50. TILL THE LORD...
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...
TRICKLETH DOWN. — Better, _poureth down. _...
עֵינִ֧י נִגְּרָ֛ה וְ לֹ֥א תִדְמֶ֖ה מֵ אֵ֥ין
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of it has not...
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...
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....
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 EYE TRICKLETH DOWN, AND CEASETH NOT,.... From weeping, as the Targum: the prophet was continually weeping; the distresses of his people were always uppermost in his mind; and which so affected hi...
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, Ver. 49. _Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not._] Put fire under the still, and water droppeth from roses. Fiery afflictions ca...
_Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water_ In this and the three following verses the prophet shows that the misfortunes of his country constituted no small part of his personal affliction. _Mine ey...
CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
Mine eye trickleth down, in a steady flow of tears, AND CEASETH NOT, WITHOUT ANY INTERMISSION, there being no abatement of the feeling of grief and therefore also no cessation of tears,...
42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
The prophet was deeply affected upon the prospect of this evil before it came, JEREMIAH 9:1, and was now much more affected when he saw the judgment was come; he wept plentifully and constantly, as fo...
Lamentations 3:49 eyes H5869 flow H5064 (H8738) cease H1820 (H8799) interruption H2014 and -...
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40). The prophet now calls on the peopl...
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.— (פ) Lamentations 3:46 present significant intimations of their base condition. ENEMIES making sport of them FEAR AND PITFALLS surrounding them, and the oft-recurring feeling of utt...
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,...
Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 9:18;...
Mine eye — The prophet speaks this of himself....