Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Lamentations 3:9
Verse 9. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone] He has put insuperable obstacles in my way; and confounded all my projects of deliverance and all my expectations of prosperity.
Verse 9. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone] He has put insuperable obstacles in my way; and confounded all my projects of deliverance and all my expectations of prosperity.
INCLOSED - Or, hedged Lamentations 3:7. HATH, MADE CROOKED - Or, “hath” turned aside. A solid wall being built across the main road, Jeremiah turns aside into by-ways, but finds them turned aside, so...
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...
CROOKED. to turn or wind back....
_hath made my paths crooked_ The writer, seeing that the direct way was as it were blocked, tried side paths, but found that they also failed to lead him in the desired direction. The figure expresses...
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...
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. HEDGED - (; ). Hosea shows that this hedging up for Israel is not for her eternal ruin, but for good in the end, "I will h...
HE HATH MADE MY PATHS CROOKED] in the sense that every avenue of advance is blocked....
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 HATH INCLOSED. — Yet another figure of resourceless misery follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner’s way. When he turns aside into by-paths, they are turned and twisted in labyrint...
גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּ גָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה׃ ס...
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...
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 hath (d) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. (d) And keeps me in hold as a prisoner....
_Stones. There is no passage, Job xix. 8._...
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...
Other metaphors are used. Some think that the Prophet refers to the siege of Jerusalem, but such a view is not suitable. The metaphors correspond with one another, though they are somewhat different....
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 HATH ENCLOSED MY WAYS WITH HEWN STONE,.... Not with a hedge of thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and these not rough, and laid loosely together, but hewn and put in order, and well...
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. Ver. 9. _He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone,_] _i.e., _ Most strongly and closely, so that none can come at me. _ He ha...
_He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone_ He hath not only hedged it up _with thorns, Hosea 2:6_, but stopped it up with a stone wall which cannot be broken through; so that _my paths_ are _made crook...
A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, with a strong wall, placing insurmountable obstacles in his way; HE HATH MADE MY PATHS CROOKED, so that he could not proceed on his way....
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...
WAYS in Scripture ordinarily signifies men's courses, and methods of counsels, and actions; if the term be taken in that sense here, it signifieth God's defeating all their methods and counsels taken...
Lamentations 3:9 blocked H1443 (H8804) ways H1870 stone H1496 paths H5410 crooked H5753 (H8765) made -...
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...
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.— (ב) Lamentations 3:4. Details as to how the writer suffered. MY FLESH AND MY SKIN HE HAS WORN OUT, HE HAS BROKEN MY BONES. Bodily exhaustion and racking pains consume the vital for...
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,...
Isaiah 30:28; Isaiah 63:17; Lamentations 3:11...
Enclosed — He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security, by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone. Crooked — Nay, God not only defeated their counsels, but made them fatal and...