Lamentations 3:52
What meaning of the lamentations 3:52 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 3:52 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."
What does Lamentations 3:52 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."
Verse 52. _MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME_] From this to the end of the chapter the prophet speaks of his own personal sufferings, and especially of those which he endured in the _dungeon_. See Jeremiah 38:6,...
Or, “They who without cause are mine enemies have hunted me sore like a bird.” Probably the prophet is speaking of his personal sorrows....
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...
There is a possible reference on the part of the writer to Jeremiah 38:6, but this is rendered unlikely by the fact that the "dungeon" had no water in it, and thus Lamentations 3:54 is inapplicable. T...
MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME— The prophet in this and the following verses describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him, and cast him into the dungeon. See Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 37:15. He com...
IV. HIS PERSONAL SUFFERING Lamentations 3:48-54 TRANSLATION (48) With streams of water my eyes flow because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. (49) My eyes flow without ceasing, withou...
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME SORE, LIKE A BIRD - which is destitute of counsel and strength. The allusion seems to be to (Calvin). WITHOUT CAUSE -...
3:52 me (a-10) Or 'Mine enemies have without cause chased me.'...
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...
WITHOUT CAUSE... — The words connect themselves in the Hebrew with “mine enemies” (comp. Psalms 35:7; Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4), and it has been inferred from this that Jeremiah speaks not of the Cha...
צֹ֥וד צָד֛וּנִי כַּ † צִּפֹּ֖ור אֹיְבַ֥י חִנָּֽם׃...
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...
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....
We shall see to the end of the chapter the various complaints, by which the Prophet deplored the miseries of his own nation, that he might at length obtain the mercy of God. He takes here the comparis...
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...
MINE ENEMIES CHASED ME SORE LIKE A BIRD,.... That is weak and helpless, fearful and timorous; that flees from place to place when pursued; so it was with the prophet, or rather with the people of the...
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Ver. 52. _Mine enemies chased me sore._] In a most eager and extreme manner, with utmost cruelty and craft. _ As a bird._] Beaten from bush t...
_Mine enemies chased me sore_ “The prophet in this, and the following verses, describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him and put him into the dungeon, Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah 38:6. He...
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...
As boys beat a bird from bush to bush, suffering it to rest no where, so mine enemies, to whom I gave no cause, pursued me....
Lamentations 3:52 enemies H341 (H8802) cause H2600 Hunted H6679 (H8804) H6679 (H8800) bird H6833 chased - Jeremiah 37:15-16, Jeremiah 38:4-6 without - 1 Samuel 24:10-15, 1 Samuel 25:28-29,...
THE PROPHET LOOKS BACK ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES AND CALLS ON YHWH TO AVENGE HIM (LAMENTATIONS 3:52). The chapter commenced with the personal experience of the prophet in Lamentations 3:1 but there it w...
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.— (צ) Lamentations 3:52. THEY HAVE HUNTED ME DOWN LIKE A BIRD is hunted when pursued with the eagerness of THOSE WHO ARE MY ENEMIES WITHOUT CAUSE, and who will not relax efforts till...
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 Samuel 30:3; 1 Samuel 30:4; Genesis 44:34; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 14:16; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 19:9; Jeremiah 4:19; Lamentations 1:18;...