I said, My strength. — The sorrow of the mourner comes to the very verge of despair. There was “no help for him from his God;” even that hope had left him. But, as the sequel shows, this despair was the beginning of a reaction. The very name of Jehovah (no longer Adonai) reminded him of the everlasting mercies.
Verse 18. _AND MY HOPE_] That first, that last support of the miserable-it is gone! it is perished! The sovereign God alone can revive it....
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...
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...
STRENGTH. strength (for endurance). Hebrew. _nezah._ See notes on Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 40:29;...
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...
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. HE HATH ... BROKEN MY TEETH WITH GRAVEL - referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the c...
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...
BROKEN MY TEETH WITH GRAVEL STONES] i.e. God has forced him to eat bread full of grit. (Proverbs 20:17). HE HATH COVERED ME WITH ASHES] or, 'He made me cower in the ashes.' Such dreadful thoughts abou...
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...
וָ אֹמַר֙ אָבַ֣ד נִצְחִ֔י וְ תֹוחַלְתִּ֖י מֵ
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...
And I said, My strength and my (g) hope hath perished from the LORD: (g) Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the v...
_End. Hebrew, "strength." Septuagint, "victory." (Calmet)_...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This...
This verse shews what I have before reminded you of, that the Prophet does not here speak as though he was divested of every sin, and prescribed a perfect rule for prayer. But, on the contrary, in ord...
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...
AND I SAID, MY STRENGTH AND MY HOPE ARE PERISHED FROM THE LORD. The former of these words signifies, according to Aben Ezra, "my standing", my subsistence, my continuance in being, or my perpetuity; a...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Ver. 18. _And I said._] But not so wisely. I was even almost tumbling into the pit of desperation. I was straddling over it, as it were,...
_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...
A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. His vitality was sapped by his afflictions, and his hope and trust in Jehovah had left him. Thus even children of the Lord are at times s...
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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Lamentations 3:18 said H559 (H8799) strength H5331 hope H8431 perished H6 (H8804) LORD H3068...
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...
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...
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.— Lamentations 3:18. This reads like an account of the climax to the trials undergone. I SAID, as if talking to myself, MY STRENGTH IS PERISHED, AND MY EXPECTATION FROM JEHOVAH. The f...
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,...
1 Samuel 27:1; Ezekiel 37:11; Job 17:15; Job 6:11; Psalms 116:11;...