Lamentations 3:47
What meaning of the lamentations 3:47 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:47 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
What does Lamentations 3:47 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
Verse 47. _FEAR AND A SNARE_] Jeremiah 48:13....
DESOLATION - Or, devastation....
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...
FEAR AND. SNARE. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _pachad vapachath._ Compare Isaiah 24:17; Jeremiah 48:43. In English, "Scare and snare"....
See intr. note....
III. HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE Lamentations 3:40-47 TRANSLATION (40) Let us search and examine our ways and return to the LORD. (41) Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in heaven: (42) We h...
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. Pe is put before Ain, as in Elegy 2:16,17; 4:16,17. Verse 46. ALL OUR ENEMIES HAVE OPENED THEIR MOUTHS AGAINST US - (). Verse 47. FEAR AND A SNAR...
3:47 ruin. (e-11) Lit. 'breach.' see Jeremiah 6:14 ; Jeremiah 8:21 ; Amos 6:6 ....
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...
FEAR AND A SNARE. — A quotation from Jeremiah 48:43, and Isaiah 24:17. DESOLATION. — Better, _devastation._ The Hebrew noun is not found elsewhere, but the cognate verb in Isaiah 37:26 is rendered “t...
פַּ֧חַד וָ פַ֛חַת הָ֥יָה לָ֖נוּ הַ שֵּׁ֥את וְ הַ שָּֽׁבֶר׃...
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of it has not...
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...
_Prophecy. Many would read, vastatio. Hebrew, "ruin." Septuagint, "taking away." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction." The prophets were continually...
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 Prophet largely dwells on the grievousness of the calamity which had happened. He compares here the anxieties into which the people had been brought, to a _pitfall _and _dread. _There is a strikin...
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...
FEAR AND A SNARE IS COME UPON US,.... Or, "fear and a pit" m; the fear of failing into the pit of ruin and destruction, on the brink of which they saw themselves; or fear seized us, and caused us to f...
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. Ver. 47. _Fear and a snare is come upon us._] Heb., A pit; great terror, and no way to escape. See Isaiah 24:17,18 ....
_We have transgressed_, &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us that...
CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
All manner of misery was come upon them. They were seized first with fears and terrors; going to escape these they fell into a snare, or (as it is in the Hebrew) into a pit, out of which they could no...
Lamentations 3:47 Fear H6343 snare H6354 Desolation H7612 destruction H7667 Fear - Isaiah 24:17-18, Isaiah 51:19; Jeremiah 48:43-44; Luke 21:35 desolation - Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40). The prophet now calls on the peop...
We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition.» Well then, be thankful that you are not, and whil...
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.— (ס) Lamentations 3:43. THOU HAST COVERED WITH ANGER, whether Himself or us is not clear, but as the next clause, AND PURSUED US, mentions the latter, it may be preferable to regard...
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,...
Exodus 11:7; Job 30:9; Lamentations 2:16; Matthew 27:38; Psalms 22:6; Psalms 44:13; Psalms 44:14; Psalms 79:10; Psalms 79:4...