Lamentations 3:10
What meaning of the lamentations 3:10 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."
What does Lamentations 3:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me...
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...
AS. LION. See note on Psalms 22:16....
Not only misery, but active forms of danger present themselves. We find the bear and lion in conjunction also in Hosea 13:8....
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...
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. HE WAS UNTO ME AS A BEAR LYING IN WAIT, AND AS A LION (; thus fulfilling the threat, "I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopa...
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...
AS A BEAR... AS A LION. — The figure found in Hosea 13:8; Amos 5:19, is specially characteristic of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44). We are reminded of Dante (_In...
דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י _אֲרִ֖י_† בְּ מִסְתָּרִֽים׃...
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...
(e) He [was] to me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places. (e) He has no pity on me....
_Places. This may refer to the prophet or to the people._...
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...
Harsh is the complaint when Jeremiah compares God to a. bear and a lion. But we have said that the apprehension of God’s wrath so terrified the faithful, that they could not sufficiently express the a...
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 [WAS] UNTO ME [AS] A BEAR LYING IN WAIT,.... For its prey, which seizes on it at once, and tears it in pieces; such were the Chaldeans to the Jews by divine permission: [AND AS] A LION IN SECRET P...
He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places. Ver. 10. _He was unto me as a bear lying in wait._] So that if I do but offer to stir, or seek to make escape, I am in da...
_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...
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, he hath taken all advantages against me to destroy me....
Lamentations 3:10 bear H1677 wait H693 (H8802) lion H738 ambush H4565 unto - Job 10:16; Isaiah 38:13; Hosea 5:14, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 13:7-8; Amos 5:18-20 in secret -...
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...
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.— (ד) Lamentations 3:10. Difficulties had been embarrassing, but dangers were also added. In the crooked paths THE BEAR AND THE LION lurked, and he is there, like them, LYING IN WAIT...
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,...
Amos 5:18; Hosea 13:7; Hosea 13:8; Hosea 5:14; Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 38:13; Job 10:16; Psalms 10:9; Psalms 17:12...