Lamentations 3:26
What meaning of the lamentations 3:26 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:26 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."
What does Lamentations 3:26 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."
Verse 26. IT IS _GOOD THAT_ A MAN _SHOULD BOTH HOPE_] _Hope_ is essentially necessary to _faith_; he that _hopes not, cannot believe_; if there be no _expectation_, there can be no _confidence_. When...
In these three verses, each beginning in the Hebrew with the word good, we have first the fundamental idea that Yahweh Himself is good, and if good to all, then especially is He so to those who being...
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...
QUIETLY WAIT. wait, and he silent....
_Good_is the leading word of this group. The knowledge of the Lord's goodness (25) is that which (26) makes it good that man should be hopeful and submissive and (27) makes him also to recognise the m...
B. Reflections About Suffering Lamentations 3:26-39 TRANSLATION (26) It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. (27) It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his yout...
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. THE LORD IS GOOD ... IT IS GOOD ... IT IS GOOD. The repetition of "good" at the beginning of each of the three verses heigh...
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...
QUIETLY WAIT. — Literally, _wait in silence: i.e._ abstain from murmurs and complaints....
טֹ֤וב וְ יָחִיל֙ וְ דוּמָ֔ם לִ תְשׁוּעַ֖ת יְהוָֽה׃...
QUIET WAITING Lamentations 3:25 HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy. Pursuing the ideas that flow out of the great truth of the endless goodness of God, and the imm...
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...
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....
_HOPE AND PATIENCE_ ‘It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.’ Lamentations 3:26 The organ at Freiburg, one of the most beautiful in the world, after t...
It is, indeed, an abrupt phrase when he says, Good and he will wait; for these words are without a subject; but as it is a general statement, there is no ambiguity. The Prophet means that it is _good...
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] GOOD THAT [A MAN] SHOULD BOTH HOPE AND QUIETLY WAIT,.... This follows from the former; for if God is good to such, it must be good for them to hope and wait for him; it is both their duty and...
__ Lamentations 3:26 _[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD._ Ver. 26. _It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait._] Heb., Be silent...
_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...
GOOD here either signifies _honestum_, what becomes men, and is their duty; or utile, what is profitable, and will turn to good account to them. _Hoping_ and _waiting_ differ but as the mother and dau...
Lamentations 3:26 good H2896 hope H3175 (H8675) H2342 (H8799) quietly H1748 salvation H8668 LORD H3068 good - Psalms 52:9, Psalms 54:6, Psalms 73:28, Psalms 92:1; Galatian
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 3:26 I. The first thing is to understand what is meant by "the salvation of the Lord." The salvation of the Lord here is something else than the first view which a sinful man obtains of...
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.— (ט) Lamentations 3:25. Such an acceptance suggests more knowledge. GOOD IS JEHOVAH TO THEM THAT WAIT FOR HIM, TO A SOUL THAT SEEKS HIM. He is ready to respond to those who feel nee...
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 Peter 1:13; 2 Chronicles 20:17; Exodus 14:13; Galatians 4:18; Genesis 49:18; Hebrews 10:35; Hebrews 3:14; Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 30:7;...