Lamentations 3:2
What meaning of the lamentations 3:2 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
What does Lamentations 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Verse Lamentations 3:2. _HE HATH - BROUGHT ME INTO DARKNESS_] In the sacred writings, _darkness_ is often taken for _calamity; light_, for _prosperity_....
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...
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 hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. I AM THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION - Jeremiah's own affliction in the dungeon of Malchiah (): that of his countrymen also in the...
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...
INTO DARKNESS. — The moral darkness of perplexity as well as misery. The cry of the mourner was like that of Ajax (Hom. _Il._ xvii. 647), “Slay me if thou wilt, but slay me in the light.”...
אֹותִ֥י נָהַ֛ג וַ יֹּלַ֖ךְ חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְ לֹא ־אֹֽור׃...
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...
_Led, or driven me with the rod. (Haydock) --- God employs two, Zacharias xi. 7. That of rigour was reserved for this prophet; (chap. xxxviii.) none of them suffered more._...
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...
The letters of the alphabet are tripled in this chapter, which I had omitted to mention. In the first two chapters each verse begins with the successive letters of the alphabet, except that in the las...
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 LED ME, AND BROUGHT [ME INTO] DARKNESS,.... Which oftentimes signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or another: thus the Jews were brought into the darkness of captivity; Je...
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light. Ver. 2. _He hath led me and brought me into darkness._] _Perstat semper in metaphora a pastoritia,_ say some, who by rod in the f...
_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...
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...
DARKNESS in Scripture (metaphorically taken) signifies _ignorance, sin, and misery_; and _light_ signifies _knowledge_, a state of grace, or a state of mirth and jollity; they are both here taken in t...
Lamentations 3:2 led H5090 (H8804) walk H3212 (H8686) darkness H2822 light H216 brought - Lamentations 3:53-55, Lamentations 2:1; Deuteronomy 28:29; Job 18:18, Job 30:26;...
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.— (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,...
Amos 5:18; Deuteronomy 28:29; Isaiah 59:9; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 18:18; Job 30:26; Jude 1:13; Jude 1:6; Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 3:53...