Lamentations 3:1
What meaning of the lamentations 3:1 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
What does Lamentations 3:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
CHAPTER III _The prophet, by enumerating his own severe trials_, 1-20, _and showing his trust in God_, 21, _encourages his people to the like resignation and trust in the_ _Divine and never-failin...
THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it....
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 wh...
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...
This chapter contains twenty-two verses: each verse having three lines: each line beginning with the same letter: and so, onward to the end of the alphabet. I AM THE MAN. The prophet is representativ...
_by the rod of his wrath_ For the figure cp. Job 9:34; Job 21:9; Psalms 89:32; Isaiah 10:5. We should notice the absence of God's name Lamentations 3:1, except in Lamentations 3:18, in contrast with i...
I AM THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION— The prophet here speaks partly in his own character, and partly in that of his countrymen and fellow-sufferers; and throughout the whole in such a manner as agr...
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 C...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Lamentations 3:1 (AN ELEGY) Lamentations 3:1.-Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions as an example how the Jews should...
3:1 (c-0) In this chapter, each verse in every succeeding set of three begins with the same Hebrew letter; and the whole in alphabetical order. man (d-4) _ Geber_ ; and so in vers. 27,35,39. see Job 3...
I _am_ THE MAN] The author is a representative sufferer, an eye-witness, and typical of Christ....
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...
I AM THE MAN. — The lamentation is one of more intense personality. For that very reason it has been the true inheritance of all mourners, however widely different in time, country, circumstance, whos...
אֲנִ֤י הַ גֶּ֨בֶר֙ רָאָ֣ה עֳנִ֔י בְּ שֵׁ֖בֶט עֶבְרָתֹֽו׃...
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...
I [am] the man [that] hath seen (a) affliction by the rod of his wrath. (a) The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he decla...
_Man. Jeremias had a share in the common misery, (Worthington) and bewails his own condition, as a figure of Christ, Psalm lxxxvii. 16., and Isaias liii. 3. (Calmet) --- His disciples must expect to s...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. The same subject of lamentation runs through the whole of this Chapter....
The word, עברה _obere_, properly means assault, passing over limits; but what is peculiar to man is often in Scripture ascribed to God. Here also he changes the person, for he spoke before of the peop...
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...
I [AM] THE MAN [THAT] HATH SEEN AFFLICTION,.... Had a much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached and ill used by his own people, and suffering with them in th...
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Ver. 1. _I am the man._] Here Jeremiah, in the name and place of all the Jewish people, setteth forth his sufferings very passionat...
_I am the man that hath seen affliction_ I myself have suffered affliction in this time of public calamity. He speaks, probably, with a particular regard to the ill treatment he had met with in the di...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath, so Jeremiah writes in setting forth his own experiences as characteristic of the misery which is often the lot of God's children in the...
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...
LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 3 The faithful bewail their misery and contempt, LAMENTATIONS 3:1. They nourish their hope by consideration of the justice, providence, and mercies of God, LAMENTATIONS 3:22. They...
Lamentations 3:1 man H1397 seen H7200 (H8804) affliction H6040 rod H7626 wrath H5678 the man - Lamentations 1:12-14; Job 19:21; Psalms 71:20, Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:15-16;...
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...
The literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the line arranged in couplets or triplet, each of which begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphab...
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, experienced God’s faithfulness (vv. Lamentations...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (א) Lamentations 3:1. The author writes as if his own person was the object on which all the troubles had been inflicted. I AM THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION BY THE ROD OF HIS WR...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 3:1 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION PERSONIFIED (see Introduction). LAMENTATIONS 3:1 SEEN...
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 53:3; Jeremiah 15:17; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 38:6; Job 19:21; Lamentations 1:12; Psalms 71:20; Psalms 88:15;...
I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman....