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Verse 28. _HE SITTETH ALONE_] He has learned that necessary lesson of
_independence_, that shows him how _he is to serve himself_; to _give
no trouble to others_; and _keep his troubles_, as far as po...
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Translate:
Let him sit alone and keep silence;
For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him.
Let him place his mouth in the dust;
Perchance there is hope.
Let him offer his cheek
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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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See intr. note....
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The hortative form is better than mg. _He sitteth alone, etc_. For
sitting alone in grief, cp. Jeremiah 15:17. The connexion is, inasmuch
as suffering is really attended with benefit to the sufferer,...
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DISCOURSE: 1093
THE BENEFIT OF EARLY AFFLICTIONS
Lamentations 3:27. _It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his
youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
upon him....
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BECAUSE HE HATH BORNE IT UPON HIM— _When he shall take up his yoke._
Houbigant....
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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...
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon
him. HE ... KEEPETH SILENCE - the fruit of true docility and patience.
He does not fight against the yoke, "as a bullock unaccustom...
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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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HE SITTETH ALONE... — Better, _Let him sit alone, and keep silence
when He_ (Jehovah) _hath laid it_ (the yoke) _upon him;_ and so in the
next verses, _Let him put his mouth... Let him give his cheek....
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יֵשֵׁ֤ב בָּדָד֙ וְ יִדֹּ֔ם כִּ֥י
נָטַ֖ל עָלָֽ
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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 imme...
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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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He sitteth alone (n) and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it]
upon him.
(n) He murmurs not against God, but is patient....
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_Himself, with perfect resignation._...
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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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Here he shews the fruit of teachableness; for when God deals severely
with his children, they yet do not rebel, but even then they willingly
submit to his authority. For whence comes it that so much i...
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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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HE SITTETH ALONE,.... Retires from the world, and the men of it, who
takes upon him the yoke of Christ; though he is not alone, but God,
Father, Son, and Spirit, are with him; and he is with the saint...
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_He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon
him._
Ver. 28. _He sitteth alone._] _Sessio solitaria,_ as being much in
meditation, according to that counsel of the preacher,...
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_It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth_ That he be
inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a
right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedience...
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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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Our English Annotations supplying _that_, makes the connexion clear,
It is good for a man that he _sit alone_, JEREMIAH 15:17; not doing
what he doth to be seen of men, but sitting alone, and when he...
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Lamentations 3:28 sit H3427 (H8799) alone H910 silent H1826 (H8799)
laid H5190 (H8804) it on him...
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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(י) Lamentations 3:28. A yoke is not of itself beneficial; it must be
borne along with desires and efforts to reach to its purpose. “Since
it is good for man that he should learn to...
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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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Jeremiah 15:17; Lamentations 2:10; Psalms 102:7; Psalms 39:9...
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Borne it — That he keep his soul in subjection to God, because God
hath humbled him by his rod....