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Verse 24. _THE LORD_ IS _MY PORTION_] Psalms 119:57....
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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...
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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 whi...
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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...
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_The Lord is my portion_ a frequent expression in the Psalms (Psalms
16:5; Psalms 73:26; Psalms 119:57; Psalms 142:5)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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חֶלְקִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אָמְרָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֔י
עַל ־כֵּ֖ן...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Lamentations 3:24 LORD H3068 portion H2506 says H559 (H8804) soul
H5315 hope H3176 (H8686)
my portion -...
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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...
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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...
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The first part of this chapter is one of the saddest in the whole Book
of God; yet I expect it has ministered as much consolation as some of
the brightest pages of Holy Writ, because there are childre...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, expe
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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:24 MY PORTION. As with the
Levites (Numbers 18:20), God is the speaker’s only inheritance (see...
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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 in...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 3:1
MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH
THAT OF THE
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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,...
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1 Chronicles 5:20; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Samuel 30:6; Jeremiah 10:16;...