Verse 33. For he doth not afflict willingly] It is no pleasure to God to afflict men. He takes no delight in our pain and misery: yet, like a tender and intelligent parent, he uses the rod; not to gratify himself, but to profit and save us.
Reasons for the resignation urged in the previous triplet....
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...
WILLINGLY. from His heart. CHILDREN. sons. MEN. Hebrew. _'ish_ (sing)....
See intr. note....
_willingly_ lit. as mg. _from his heart_....
This group contains the three thoughts which produce the resignation, (_a_) because punishment will be only for a time (cp. Isaiah 54:8), (_b_) because God is by nature merciful, (_c_) because even in...
DISCOURSE: 1094 COMFORT FOR THE AFFLICTED Lamentations 3:31. _The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. Fo...
FOR HE DOTH NOT AFFLICT WILLINGLY— Houbigant reads this, _For he doth not afflict willingly, or oppress the sons of men; so far as,_ (Lamentations 3:34.) _To crush under his feet,_ &c. Lamentations 3:...
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...
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF FOREVER. True repentance is never without hope (). Verse 32. THOUGH HE CAUSE GRIEF, YET WILL HE HAVE COMPASSION ACCORDING TO THE MU...
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...
NOT... WILLINGLY. — Literally, _not from the heart,_ as being the centre of volition as well as emotion...
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א עִנָּה֙ מִ לִּבֹּ֔ו וַ יַּגֶּ֖ה
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...
For he doth not (p) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. (p) He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor....
_Men. He punishes with regret, Ezechiel xviii. 23. Our crimes force him to chastise, ver. 36. (Calmet) --- Yet he seeks our advantage. (Worthington)_...
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....
This is another confirmation of the same truth, that God takes no delight in the evils or miseries of men. It is indeed a strong mode of speaking which the Prophet adopts, but very suitable. God, we k...
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...
FOR HE DOTH NOT AFFLICT WILLINGLY,.... Or, "from his heart" e; he does afflict; for all afflictions are from God, but they do not come from the mere motion of his heart, or are the effects of his sove...
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. Ver. 33. _For he doth not afflict willingly._] Heb., From the heart. _a_ _Non nisi coactus,_ as that emperor said when he sealed a wr...
_The Lord will not cast off for ever_ The truly penitent that put their trust in him, and sincerely desire and seek reconciliation with him: though he may for a time appear to estrange himself from th...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
For He doth not afflict willingly, literally, "from His heart," NOR GRIEVE THE CHILDREN OF MEN. It is not because the Lord takes a vindictive delight in punishing men that He lays afflictions upon the...
WILLINGLY: _ Heb._ from his heart...
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...
In the Hebrew it is, he doth not afflict from his heart, that is, with pleasure and delight; or (which seemeth the best sense to me) not from his own mere motion without a cause given him from the per...
Lamentations 3:33 afflict H6031 (H8765) willingly H3820 grieve H3013 (H8762) children H1121 men H376 afflict -...
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 3:31 NOT CAST OFF FOREVER. God’s anger is temporary (Psalms 103:9). He judges people to bring them to repentance and ren
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (כ) Lamentations 3:31. For this silent waiting on the Lord, amid humiliations and scorn, there is all-sufficient strength. It is in the Lord Himself, in the belief that He is at wor...
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,...
Ezekiel 18:32; Ezekiel 33:11; Hebrews 12:10; Hebrews 12:9; Isaiah
Willingly — Not from his own mere motion without a cause given him from the persons afflicted. Hence judgment is called God's strange work....