Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Lamentations 3:65
Give them sorrow of heart. Thou wilt suffer them. veiling (or obstinacy) of heart. See Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 6:10.
sorrow. covering, or veiling.
Give them sorrow of heart. Thou wilt suffer them. veiling (or obstinacy) of heart. See Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 6:10.
sorrow. covering, or veiling.
Verse Lamentations 3:65. _GIVE THEM SORROW OF HEART_] They shall have a _callous_ heart, _covered_ with _obstinacy_, and thy _execration_. The former is their _state_, the latter their _fate_. This i...
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
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....
For the anticipation of punishment here expressed see on Jeremiah 18:23; C.B. (Kirkpatrick) on Psalms 28:4....
_hardness_ or, as mg. _blindness_, Heb. _covering_. Cp. 2 Corinthians 3:15. _thy curse unto them_ dependent on "wilt give," or meaning, thy curse _shall be_unto them. Either of these explanations is...
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...
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. RENDER UNTO THEM A RECOMPENCE - (; , "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord reward him according to his wor...
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...
SORROW OF HEART — Literally, _covering,_ with a sense like that of the “veil upon the heart” of 2 Corinthians 3:15, and so signifying the blindness of obstinacy. The imperatives in both Lamentations 3...
תִּתֵּ֤ן לָהֶם֙ מְגִנַּת ־לֵ֔ב תַּאֲלָֽתְךָ֖ לָהֶֽם׃...
_ 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...
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...
_Buckler, to cover all the body. They shall be surrounded with misery, (Psalm cviii. 29.) while God will protect his servants, Psalm v. 13. (Calmet) --- Let sorrow pierce their heart, as thy enemies a...
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....
He expresses what the vengeance was to be, even that God would give them up to a reprobate mind; for by מגנת-לב, _meganet-leb, _he no doubt meant the blindness of the heart, and at the same time inclu...
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...
GIVE THEM SORROW OF HEART,.... That which will cause sorrow of heart; such judgments and punishments as will be grievous to them. Some have observed a likeness between the word here used and that tran...
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Ver. 65. _Give them sorrow of heart._] In place of their mad mirth and sinful music; turn their psalm - as the Vulgate rendereth the word music in the...
_Render to them a recompense_, &c. See note on Jeremiah 11:20. The verbs in these verses are not in the imperative mood, but all in the future tense, and certainly should have been so rendered, as ind...
Give them sorrow of heart, literally, "blindness or covering of heart," a stupidity which shut them out from spiritual understanding, THY CURSE UNTO THEM!...
PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
SORROW OF THE HEART: Or, obstinacy of heart...
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...
The word translated SORROW OF HEART is found no where else in holy writ, which makes a certain particular explication of it to be difficult, and hath given interpreters a strange liberty in translatin...
Lamentations 3:65 Give H5414 (H8799) veiled H4044 heart H3820 curse H8381 sorrow - or, obstinacy,...
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...
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
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:65 YOUR CURSE. The judgment that comes because of their actions (see Deuteronomy 28:15)....
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...
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,...
2 Timothy 4:14; Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 50:29; Psalms 28:4;...