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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...
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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...
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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...
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_wormwood_ See on Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15....
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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...
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
ARROWS - literally, sons of His quiver (cf. , "The arrows of the
Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit").
V...
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ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER] RM 'sons of his quiver,' a poetical expression
for the enemies' taunts (Jeremiah 20:8).
MY REINS] The English equivalent is heart, denoting the seat of the
affections (Jeremiah...
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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...
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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...
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BITTERNESS. — The Hebrew gives the plural, _bitternesses._ With
these, the sorrows which are as the bitter herbs of life (the same
word meets us in Exodus 12:8, and Numbers 9:11), the mourner had been...
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הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַ † מְּרֹורִ֖ים
הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ ס...
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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...
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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...
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (f)
wormwood.
(f) With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense....
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_Wormwood, or a bitter poisonous herb, chap. ix. 26., and Deuteronomy
xxix. 18._...
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He
hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely
against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the...
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Some render the last word “wormwood,” but this word seems not to
me to suit the passage, for though wormwood is bitter, yet it is a
wholesome herb. I therefore take it in this and like places for pois...
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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...
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HE HATH FILLED ME WITH BITTERNESS,.... Or "with bitternesses" m;
instead of food, bitter herbs; the allusion perhaps is to the bitter
herbs eaten at the passover, and signify bitter afflictions, sore...
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with
wormwood.
Ver. 15. _He hath filled me with bitterness._] Heb., Bitternesses: _a_
alluding, as some think, to that _ius seu embamma in q...
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_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...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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He hath filled me with bitterness, Job 9:18; HE HATH MADE ME DRUNKEN
WITH WORM WOOD, with the nauseous cup which He caused him to drink,
instead of the strengthening medicine which his condition seeme...
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BITTERNESS:
_ Heb._ bitternesses...
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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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That is, he hath filled me with severe and bitter dispensations.
WORMWOOD is a bitter herb, but it is also a wholesome herb, and
therefore some think that the Hebrew word should rather be translated
_...
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Lamentations 3:15 filled H7646 (H8689) bitterness H4844 drink H7301
(H8689) wormwood H3939
filled -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 3:14. The figure is hardly changed. Perhaps A
LAUGHING-STOCK TO ALL MY PEOPLE, THEIR SONG ALL THE DAY, may be
regarded as the shaft which went to the quick. Jeremiah ca...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 3:1
MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH
THAT OF THE
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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,...
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Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 23:15; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 25:27;...
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Wormwood — With severe and bitter dispensations....