Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Lamentations 3:20
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled (h) in me.
(h) He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled (h) in me.
(h) He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.
Verse 20. _BY SOUL - IS HUMBLED IN ME._] It is evident that in the preceding verses there is a _bitterness_ of _complaint_ against the _bitterness_ of _adversity_, that is not becoming to _man_ when...
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REMEMBERING] RV 'remember,' in the imperative sense (Lamentations 1:7). THIS I RECALL] viz. what just precedes, his affliction....
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MY SOUL HATH... — The verb, as in Lamentations 3:17, may be either in the second person or the third; the former gives, _Thou wilt surely remember that my soul is humbled._ Psalms 42:4 supports the Au...
זָכֹ֣ור תִּזְכֹּ֔ור _וְ_†_תָשֹׁ֥וחַ_† עָלַ֖י נַפְשִֽׁי׃...
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...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This...
The Prophet seems in other words to confirm what he had said, even that the memory of afflictions overwhelmed his soul. For the soul is said to be humbled in or upon man, when he lies down under the b...
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...
MY SOUL HATH [THEM] STILL IN REMEMBRANCE,.... That is, according to our version, affliction and misery, compared to wormwood and gall: but the words, "my soul", are fetched from the next clause, where...
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. Ver. 20. _My soul hath them still in remembrance._] But it is not good to plod overly much in this case. Such bitter pills should be sw...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
My soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbled in me, still bowed down, as under a heavy weight....
HUMBLED: _ Heb._ bowed...
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...
That is, I cannot forget them, and the thoughts of them sink my spirits....
Lamentations 3:20 soul H5315 still H2142 (H8800) remembers H2142 (H8799) sinks H7743 (H8686) hath -...
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...
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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...
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 3:19 A prayer for God to REMEMBER all that the speaker has suffered. God has not remembered Jerusalem and protected her (see note on 2:1). worm
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 3:18. This reads like an account of the climax to the trials undergone. I SAID, as if talking to myself, MY STRENGTH IS PERISHED, AND MY EXPECTATION FROM JEHOVAH. The f...
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,...
Job 21:6; Psalms 146:8; Psalms 42:11; Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:6;...