Thou hast heard... hide not thine... — There is something eminently suggestive in the sequence of the two clauses. The recollection that prayer was answered in the past, prompts its utterance in the present. Historically, the words may point to the intervention of Ebed-melech in Jeremiah 38:7.
At my breathing — i.e., the “sighs” or “sobs” of the mourner.
Verse 56. _HIDE NOT THINE EAR AT MY BREATHING_] He dared not even to _complain_, nor to _cry_, nor to _pray aloud_: he was obliged to _whisper_ his prayer to God. It was only a _breathing_....
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...
AT MY BREATHING. See note on Malachi 3:16. AT MY CRY. Some codices, with Vulgate, read "and at my cry" (or outcry)....
See intr. note....
The word rendered "breathing" occurs but once elsewhere (Exodus 8:15 [Heb. Lamentations 3:11]), and has there the sense of _respite, relief_. Accordingly Ewald proposes (by a change of one consonant)...
DISCOURSE: 1095 THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER Lamentations 3:54. _Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: h...
MY BREATHING— _My groaning,_ or _sighing._...
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...
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. I CALLED UPON THY NAME ... OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON. Thus the spirit resists the flesh, and faith spurns the temptation (Calvin; ; ). Verse 56....
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...
I CALLED UPON THY NAME] i.e. upon the attributes of God; referring possibly to Psalms 69, supposed by some to have been composed by Jeremiah while in the dungeon. FEAR NOT] God's answer was brief, co...
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...
קֹולִ֖י שָׁמָ֑עְתָּ אַל ־תַּעְלֵ֧ם אָזְנְךָ֛ לְ...
_ 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...
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....
When the Prophet says that God _heard, _it is the same as though he said, that he had so prayed that God became a witness of his earnestness and solicitude; for many boast in high terms of their earne...
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 HEARD MY VOICE,.... Either in times past, when he cried unto him, and was delivered; and this was an encouragement to call upon him again in such extremity, who had shown himself to be a God...
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Ver. 56. _Thou hast heard my voice._] Seem a man's case never so desperate, if he can but find a praying heart, God will find...
_Mine enemies chased me sore_ “The prophet in this, and the following verses, describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him and put him into the dungeon, Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah 38:6. He...
PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
Thou hast heard my voice, so he cries out in the triumphant confidence of his faith; HIDE NOT THY EAR AT MY BREATHING, AT MY CRY, as he recovered his breath sufficiently to lay his case before Jehovah...
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...
I in former great afflictions applied myself unto thee, and thou didst hear me; show me now the same favour. Our former experiences of God's goodness to us in hearing our prayers ought to hold up our...
Lamentations 3:56 heard H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 hide H5956 (H8686) ear H241 sighing H7309 cry H7775...
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...
Lamentations 3:52. _Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off...
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 3:55 In the DEPTHS OF THE PIT (the worst days of his suffering), the speaker called upon God, who had placed him there. YOU HEARD MY PLEA. See...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (צ) Lamentations 3:52. THEY HAVE HUNTED ME DOWN LIKE A BIRD is hunted when pursued with the eagerness of THOSE WHO ARE MY ENEMIES WITHOUT CAUSE, and who will not relax efforts till...
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 33:11; 2 Chronicles 33:12; Acts 16:24; Jeremiah 38:6;...
Heard — In former afflictions. Hide not — Shew me now the same favour....