Lamentations 3:22
What meaning of the lamentations 3:22 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
What does Lamentations 3:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
Verse 22. IT IS OF _THE LORD'S MERCIES THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED_] Being thus _humbled_, and seeing _himself_ and his _sinfulness_ in a proper point of view, he finds that God, instead of dealing with...
Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. In them the riches of God’s grace and mercy are set forth in the brightest...
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...
MERCIES. lovingkindnesses. BECAUSE. verily....
There are metrical irregularities in these _vv_. as they stand. We should probably (with Löhr) read the first, "The Lord's compassion ceaseth not"; "His love is not spent," and the second, which is no...
DISCOURSE: 1091 THE VIEWS OF A SAINT IN HIS AFFLICTIONS Lamentations 3:22. _It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great i...
IT IS OF THE LORD'S MERCIES— _This is the Lord's mercy, that he hath not entirely consumed me; neither are his companions exhausted._...
II. HIS CONFESSION OF FAITH Lamentations 3:19-39 Since the poet's outlook was bleak he tries the uplook. He calls upon God to remember his predicament (Lamentations 3:19) because he himself is not abl...
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. [ IT IS OF THE LORD'S MERCIES ... WE ARE NOT CONSUMED ] - (, "I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons o...
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...
IT IS OF THE LORD’S MERCIES. — It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to...
חַֽסְדֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ כִּ֣י לֹא ־תָ֔מְנוּ כִּ֥י לֹא ־כָל֖וּ רַחֲמָֽיו׃...
THE UNFAILING GOODNESS OF GOD Lamentations 3:22 ALTHOUGH the elegist has prepared us for brighter scenes by the more hopeful tone of an intermediate triplet, the transition from the gloom and bittern...
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...
[It is of] the LORD'S (i) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. (i) Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his ow...
CHAPTER III....
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...
_SHADOW AND SUNSHINE_ ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’ Lamentations 3:19; Lamentations 3:22 I. SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF, THE PROPHET PERSONIFIES HIS PEOPLE (Lamentations 3:1).—His des...
The first clause may be explained in two ways: The view commonly taken is, that it ought to be ascribed to God’s mercy that the faithful have not been often consumed. Hence a very useful doctrine is e...
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...
[IT IS OF] THE LORD'S MERCIES THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED,.... It was true of the prophet, that he died not in prison, or in the dungeon; and of the people of the Jews, who though many of them perished b...
Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Ver. 22. It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed.] That we are yet on this side...
_This I recall to my mind_, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope an...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
21-36 Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. We should observe what makes...
Mercy is nothing else but love flowing freely from any to persons in misery, and differs from compassion only in the freeness of the emanation. It is not because God had not power enough utterly to ha...
Lamentations 3:22 LORDS H3068 mercies H2617 consumed H8552 (H8804) compassions H7356 fail H3615 (H8804) of - Ezra 9:8-9, Ezra 9:13-15; Nehemiah 9:31; Psalms 78:38, Psalms 106:45;...
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...
Lamentations 3:22 This is one of those very bright thoughts which lie across this dark book like an April ray upon a retiring cloud. There is no book in the Bible which is more characterised by the i...
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.— (ח) Lamentations 3:22. The hopefulness which had begun to lift a desponding soul points to the ground on which it may become secure. Its hazy outlook is seeming to clear, and, as i...
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,...
Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:14; Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 20:22; Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel 20:9; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:8; Ezra 9:9; Luke 1:50;...
Is God compassionate or ferocious? PROBLEM: This and many other verses in Scripture describe God as merciful and compassionate, slow to wrath and plentiful in kindness (cf. Psalms 94:9; James 5:11; 1...