Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 3:8
Shout - i. e. call for help.
Shutteth out - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no egress.
Shout - i. e. call for help.
Shutteth out - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no egress.
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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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HE HATH MADE MY PATHS CROOKED] in the sense that every avenue of advance is blocked....
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...
HE SHUTTETH OUT MY PRAYER — _i.e.,_ stops it so that it does not reach the ear of Jehovah; and it is Jehovah himself who does this....
גַּ֣ם כִּ֤י אֶזְעַק֙ וַ אֲשַׁוֵּ֔עַ שָׂתַ֖ם ת
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...
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...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (c) prayer. (c) This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not heard...
_Prayer. God would not allow him to pray for the people, chap. vii. 16._...
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...
The Prophet describes here the extremity of all evils, that it availed him nothing to cry and to pray. And yet we know that we are called to do this in all our miseries. “The strongest tower is the n...
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...
ALSO WHEN I CRY AND SHOUT,.... Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case: t...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. Ver. 8. _Also when I cry and shout._] As poor prisoners use to do for relief and release. _ He shutteth out my prayer._] Or, Shutteth his ear to...
_Also when I cry and shout_ When, under a conviction that, in my present distressed condition, I cannot deliver myself, and that no creature can deliver me, I make application to God in prayer for del...
A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
Also when I cry and shout, begging for deliverance, HE SHUTTETH OUT MY PRAYER, this refusal to hear making the afflictions all the harder to bear....
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...
In the condition I am in, I cannot help myself, no creatures can help me, I have no hope but in God. I take the ordinary course in that case, which is prayer, I pray fervently and aloud, as those that...
Lamentations 3:8 cry H2199 (H8799) shout H7768 (H8762) out H5640 (H8804) prayer H8605 Shout - PtC H35073
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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...
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...
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.— (ב) Lamentations 3:4. Details as to how the writer suffered. MY FLESH AND MY SKIN HE HAS WORN OUT, HE HAS BROKEN MY BONES. Bodily exhaustion and racking pains consume the vital for...
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,...
Habakkuk 1:2; Job 19:7; Job 30:20; Lamentations 3:44; Matthew 27:46;...