Thou hast covered with anger. — Better, as in the next verse, Thou hast covered thyself. Wrath is as the garment in which God wraps Himself to execute His righteous judgments. In Lamentations 3:44 the wrath is represented more definitely as a cloud through which the prayers of the afflicted cannot pass.
In verses 43-66, far from pardoning, God is still actively punishing His people. Rather, “Thou hast covered” Thyself “with wrath and pursued (Lamentations 1:3 note) us.” The covering (here and in Lame...
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...
PERSECUTED. pursued. Compare Psalms 35:6....
See intr. note....
_covered_ mg., better, _covered_thyself. Thou hast clothed thyself in wrath. This accords with the next line....
THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, &C.— _Thou hast fenced about with anger._ The verb סכךֶ _sakak_ appears to have this sense, Job 3:23; Job 10:11; Job 38:8. There seems to be a manifest allusion to the ma...
III. HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE Lamentations 3:40-47 TRANSLATION (40) Let us search and examine our ways and return to the LORD. (41) Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in heaven: (42) We ha...
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER - namely, thyself (so ), namely, so as not to see and pity our calamities, for eve...
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...
סַכֹּ֤תָה בָ † אַף֙ וַֽ תִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ...
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of it has not...
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...
_Covered thyself, as if not to see our distress._...
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....
At the first view, this complaint may seem to proceed from a bitter heart; for here the faithful complain that they had been slain, and then that God had executed his judgment as it were in darkness,...
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...
THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER,.... Either himself; not as a tender father, that cannot bear to see the affliction of a child; this does not suit with anger; but rather as one greatly displeased, in who...
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. Ver. 43. _Thou hast covered with anger._] Overwhelmed us with thy judgments. None out of hell have ever suffere...
_We have transgressed_, &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us that...
CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
Thou hast covered with anger, shutting Himself off so as not to see them, AND PERSECUTED US. The veil of His wrath kept Him, as it were, from feeling a weak sympathy. THOU HAST SLAIN. THOU HAST NOT PI...
42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER; either thou hast covered thyself with anger, or covered thy own face with anger, so as not to look upon us to move thy pity; or (which is more probably the sense) thou ha...
Lamentations 3:43 covered H5526 (H8804) anger H639 pursued H7291 (H8799) slain H2026 (H8804) pitied H2550 ...
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40). The prophet now calls on the peopl...
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
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ס) Lamentations 3:43. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, whether Himself or us is not clear, but as the next clause, AND PURSUED US, mentions the latter, it may be preferable to regard...
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 Kings 24:4; Daniel 9:5; Ezekiel 24:13; Jeremiah 3:13; Jeremiah 5:7;