Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Lamentations 3:29
He putteth his mouth in the dust... — The outward image is that of the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his very face laid in the dust, so that he cannot speak.
He putteth his mouth in the dust... — The outward image is that of the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his very face laid in the dust, so that he cannot speak.
Verse 29. _HE PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST_] Lives in a state of deep humility. _IF SO BE THERE MAY BE HOPE._] Because there is room for hope....
Translate: Let him sit alone and keep silence; For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him. Let him place his mouth in the dust; Perchance there is hope. Let him offer his cheek
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...
HE. See note on Lamentations 1:12....
See intr. note....
_Let him put his mouth in the dust_ the Eastern way of expressing absolute submission by prostrating oneself....
DISCOURSE: 1093 THE BENEFIT OF EARLY AFFLICTIONS Lamentations 3:27. _It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him....
HE PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST— "He prostrates himself even to the ground in token of the deepest humiliation." See Isaiah 29:4. 1 Corinthians 14:25....
B. Reflections About Suffering Lamentations 3:26-39 TRANSLATION (26) It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. (27) It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his yout...
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. HE ... KEEPETH SILENCE - the fruit of true docility and patience. He does not fight against the yoke, "as a bullock unaccustom...
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...
יִתֵּ֤ן בֶּֽ † עָפָר֙ פִּ֔יהוּ אוּלַ֖י יֵ֥שׁ...
QUIET WAITING Lamentations 3:25 HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy. Pursuing the ideas that flow out of the great truth of the endless goodness of God, and the imme...
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...
He putteth his (o) mouth in the dust; if there may be hope. (o) He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waits for comfort....
_Hope. He does not doubt, but confides with great humility._...
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 continues the same subject; for he describes to us men so subdued to obedience that they are ready to bear whatever God may lay on them. He then says that the sitting and the silence of which he sp...
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...
HE PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST,.... Of self-abhorrence; sensible of his own vileness and nothingness, his unworthiness, and the unprofitableness of all his duties; ascribing the whole of his salvati...
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. Ver. 29. _He putteth his mouth in the dust._] He lieth low at God's feet: putting himself into the hands of justice, yet in hope of mercy...
_It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth_ That he be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedience...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
He putteth his mouth in the dust, in the position of most humble submission, restraining himself from murmuring, IF SO BE THERE MAY BE HOPE, or, "perhaps there is still hope," namely, that God will ha...
21-36 Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. We should observe what makes...
OLBHeb; If _that_ may be supplied, or _when_, (as Pagnine translateth yb LAMENTATIONS 3:28, the connexion of these words with the former is very fair and easy, for then those words, LAMENTATIONS 3:27,...
Lamentations 3:29 put H5414 (H8799) mouth H6310 be H3426 hope H8615 putteth - 2 Chronicles 33:12;...
THE PROPHET PRAYS HIS WAY THROUGH TO CONFIDENCE IN YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 3:19). When our souls have reached their lowest point there is only one thing to do, and that is to cast ourselves on God. That i...
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
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:29 PUT HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST. Assume a posture that shows his humility and dependence on God. THERE MAY YET BE HOPE because of God’s faithfulness (see v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (י) Lamentations 3:28. A yoke is not of itself beneficial; it must be borne along with desires and efforts to reach to its purpose. “Since it is good for man that he should learn to...
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 Chronicles 33:12; Ezekiel 16:63; Job 40:4; Job 42:5; Job 42:6;...
In the dust — Both this and the former verses let us know the duty of persons under afflictions....