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Omit “as.”...
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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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PEOPLE. peoples....
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For the thought cp. Nahum 3:6; 1 Corinthians 4:13. It was exemplified
in the Middle Ages in England and elsewhere (see _Ivanhoe_) and is
still to be seen in Eastern Europe in the _Judenhetze_....
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See intr. note....
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III. HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE Lamentations 3:40-47
TRANSLATION
(40) Let us search and examine our ways and return to the LORD. (41)
Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in heaven: (42) We ha...
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Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain,
thou hast not pitied. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER - namely, thyself
(so ), namely, so as not to see and pity our calamities, for eve...
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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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IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE. — Literally, _peoples: i.e.,_ the
heathen nations of the world. A like phrase meets us in 1 Corinthians
4:13....
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סְחִ֧י וּ מָאֹ֛וס תְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּ בְּ
קֶ֥רֶב הָ
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GRIEVING BEFORE GOD
Lamentations 3:43
AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the
patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the
vision of it has not...
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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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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....
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They say here that they were exposed to reproach, so as to become, as
it were, the sweepings of the world. Some render סחי, _sachi_,
“refuse;” some by other words; and some “filth:” But the word
prope...
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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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Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the
people.
Ver. 45. _Thou hast made us as the offscouring._] _Eradicationem,_
saith the Vulgate; _rasuram potius,_ not the rooting o...
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_We have transgressed_, &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the
effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be
convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us that...
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Thou hast made us, by refusing His assistance, AS THE OFF-SCOURING AND
REFUSE IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE. Israel, ground down to the dust,
had become an object of contempt among the heathen nations....
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CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
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42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was
grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping,
they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
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That is, thou hast made us to all nations extremely contemptible, so
as they value us no more than the sweepings of their houses, or the
most vile, refuse, and contemptible things imaginable....
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Lamentations 3:45 made H7760 (H8799) offscouring H5501 refuse H3973
midst H7130 peoples H5971
as -...
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THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE
SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO
PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40).
The prophet now calls on the peopl...
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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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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.—
(ס) Lamentations 3:43. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, whether Himself
or us is not clear, but as the next clause, AND PURSUED US, mentions
the latter, it may be preferable to regard...
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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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Jeremiah 14:11; Jeremiah 15:1; Lamentations 3:8; Psalms 80:4; Psal