Verse 28. He sitteth alone] He has learned that necessary lesson of independence, that shows him how he is to serve himself; to give no trouble to others; and keep his troubles, as far as possible, in his own bosom.
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...
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The hortative form is better than mg. _He sitteth alone, etc_. For sitting alone in grief, cp. Jeremiah 15:17. The connexion is, inasmuch as suffering is really attended with benefit to the sufferer,...
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....
BECAUSE HE HATH BORNE IT UPON HIM— _When he shall take up his yoke._ Houbigant....
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...
HE SITTETH ALONE... — Better, _Let him sit alone, and keep silence when He_ (Jehovah) _hath laid it_ (the yoke) _upon him;_ and so in the next verses, _Let him put his mouth... Let him give his cheek....
יֵשֵׁ֤ב בָּדָד֙ וְ יִדֹּ֔ם כִּ֥י נָטַ֖ל עָלָֽ
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 sitteth alone (n) and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. (n) He murmurs not against God, but is patient....
_Himself, with perfect resignation._...
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....
Here he shews the fruit of teachableness; for when God deals severely with his children, they yet do not rebel, but even then they willingly submit to his authority. For whence comes it that so much i...
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 SITTETH ALONE,.... Retires from the world, and the men of it, who takes upon him the yoke of Christ; though he is not alone, but God, Father, Son, and Spirit, are with him; and he is with the saint...
_He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him._ Ver. 28. _He sitteth alone._] _Sessio solitaria,_ as being much in meditation, according to that counsel of the preacher,...
_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 sitteth alone and keepeth silence, practicing patience in a solitude which enables him to value the divine chastisements, BECAUSE HE HATH BORNE IT UPON HIM, because and when Jehovah has laid the bu...
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...
Our English Annotations supplying _that_, makes the connexion clear, It is good for a man that he _sit alone_, JEREMIAH 15:17; not doing what he doth to be seen of men, but sitting alone, and when he...
Lamentations 3:28 sit H3427 (H8799) alone H910 silent H1826 (H8799) laid H5190 (H8804) it on him...
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
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,...
Jeremiah 15:17; Lamentations 2:10; Psalms 102:7; Psalms 39:9...
Borne it — That he keep his soul in subjection to God, because God hath humbled him by his rod....