Lamentations 3:24
What meaning of the lamentations 3:24 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."
What does Lamentations 3:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."
Verse 24. _THE LORD_ IS _MY PORTION_] Psalms 119:57....
THE LORD IS MY PORTION - “My portion is Yahweh,” see Numbers 18:20; Psalms 16:5 ff. THEREFORE WILL I HOPE IN HIM - A more full expression of the confidence present in the prophet’s mind in Lamentatio...
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...
_The Lord is my portion_ a frequent expression in the Psalms (Psalms 16:5; Psalms 73:26; Psalms 119:57; Psalms 142:5)....
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...
THE LORD. — An inversion of the sentence gives a closer and more emphatic rendering: _My portion is Jehovah._ The phrase is a reminiscence from Psalms 16:5; Psalms 73:26; Psalms 142:5; Psalms 119:57,...
חֶלְקִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אָמְרָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֔י עַל ־כֵּ֖ן אֹוחִ֥יל לֹֽו׃ ס...
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...
The LORD [is] my (l) portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. (l) The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as (Psalms 16:5)....
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him....
_THE BEST PORTION_ ‘The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.’ Lamentations 3:24 I. THE LORD IS THE PORTION OF HIS PEOPLE. (1) The object of their supreme love. (2) The object of their entire confi...
The Prophet intimates in this verse that we cannot stand firm in adversities, except we be content with God alone and his favor; for as soon as we depart from him, any adversity that may happen to us...
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...
THE LORD [IS] MY PORTION, SAITH MY SOUL,.... The prophet, or the church, whom he represents, rises and increases in the exercise of faith; from considering the mercies, compassions, and faithfulness o...
The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Ver. 24. _The Lord is my portion._] And that is enough for me, should I never have more. _See Trapp on "_ Psa 16:5 _"_ That whic...
_The Lord is my portion, saith my soul_ An interest in the favour and love of God, and his presence with me, my heart tells me, is the best inheritance. And, possessing these, I have that which is suf...
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...
God is the portion of his people, and they have chosen him as their portion; he hath declared himself to them as such, and they have accepted him as such. This gives them ground both for patience unde...
Lamentations 3:24 LORD H3068 portion H2506 says H559 (H8804) soul H5315 hope H3176 (H8686) my portion - Psalms 16:5, Psalms 73:26, Psalms 119:57, Psalms 142:5; Jeremiah 10:16,...
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...
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,...
1 Chronicles 5:20; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Samuel 30:6; Jeremiah 10:16; Jeremiah 51:19; Job 13:15; Lamentations 3:21; Psalms 119:57; Psalms 130:7;...