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Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now
shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.
Lamentations 3:11
The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me...
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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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DERISION. Compare Jeremiah 20:8.
ALL MY PEOPLE.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), with
some codices, and Syriac, read "all peoples".
SONG. mocking-song. Compare Lamentations 3:63 and...
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_a derision_ See on Jeremiah 20:7 f., and cp. Job 12:4; Job 30:1-9;
Psalms 69:12....
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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 caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
ARROWS - literally, sons of His quiver (cf. , "The arrows of the
Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit").
V...
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ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER] RM 'sons of his quiver,' a poetical expression
for the enemies' taunts (Jeremiah 20:8).
MY REINS] The English equivalent is heart, denoting the seat of the
affections (Jeremiah...
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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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I WAS A DERISION. — The personal experience of the prophet breaks
through the succession of imagery. The arrows that pierced to the
quick were the taunts of the mockers who derided him (Jeremiah 20:7)...
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הָיִ֤יתִי שְּׂחֹק֙ לְ כָל ־עַמִּ֔י
נְגִינָתָ֖ם...
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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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_Song. True prophets were derided on account of impostors, and because
of their declarations were unpleasant, &c., chap. xvii. 15., and
Ezechiel xii. 22._...
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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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The Prophet again complains of the reproaches to which God had exposed
the Jews. We have said that of all evils the most grievous is
reproach, and experience teaches us that sorrow is greatly embitter...
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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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I WAS A DERISION TO ALL MY PEOPLE,.... So Jeremiah was to the people
of the Jews, and especially to his townsmen, the men of Anathoth,
Jeremiah 20:7; but if he represents the body of the people, other...
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_I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day._
Ver. 14. _I was a derision, to all my people._] Or, To all peoples.
Our Saviour suffered all this and much more for us.
_ And their...
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_I was a derision to all my people_ To all the wicked among them, who
made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public
judgments; _and their song all the day_ Hebrew, נגינתם, their
instr...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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I was a derision to all my people, as when they mockingly set aside
his advice not to go down to Egypt, AND THEIR SONG ALL THE DAY, so
that they made him their laughing-stock....
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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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OLBHeb;
Though some think the prophet speaks this of himself, yet, considering
he hath all along spoken in the name of the people, it is not
probable, which makes a difficulty, how the people could be...
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Lamentations 3:14 ridicule H7814 song H5058 day H3117
Lamentations 3:63; Nehemiah 4:2-4;...
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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 3:14. The figure is hardly changed. Perhaps A
LAUGHING-STOCK TO ALL MY PEOPLE, THEIR SONG ALL THE DAY, may be
regarded as the shaft which went to the quick. Jeremiah ca...
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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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1 Corinthians 4:9; Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 48:27; Job 30:1;...