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Verse 29. _HE PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST_] Lives in a state of deep
humility.
_IF SO BE THERE MAY BE HOPE._] Because there is room for hope....
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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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HE. See note on Lamentations 1:12....
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See intr. note....
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_Let him put his mouth in the dust_ the Eastern way of expressing
absolute submission by prostrating oneself....
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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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HE PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST— "He prostrates himself even to the
ground in token of the deepest humiliation." See Isaiah 29:4. 1
Corinthians 14:25....
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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 PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST... — The outward image is that of
the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his very face
laid in the dust, so that he cannot speak....
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יִתֵּ֤ן בֶּֽ † עָפָר֙ פִּ֔יהוּ
אוּלַ֖י יֵ֥שׁ...
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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 putteth his (o) mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
(o) He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the
ground, and so with patience waits for comfort....
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_Hope. He does not doubt, but confides with great humility._...
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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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He continues the same subject; for he describes to us men so subdued
to obedience that they are ready to bear whatever God may lay on them.
He then says that the sitting and the silence of which he sp...
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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 PUTTETH HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST,.... Of self-abhorrence; sensible of
his own vileness and nothingness, his unworthiness, and the
unprofitableness of all his duties; ascribing the whole of his
salvati...
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He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Ver. 29. _He putteth his mouth in the dust._] He lieth low at God's
feet: putting himself into the hands of justice, yet in hope of mercy...
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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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OLBHeb;
If _that_ may be supplied, or _when_, (as Pagnine translateth yb
LAMENTATIONS 3:28, the connexion of these words with the former is
very fair and easy, for then those words, LAMENTATIONS 3:27,...
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Lamentations 3:29 put H5414 (H8799) mouth H6310 be H3426 hope H8615
putteth - 2 Chronicles 33:12;...
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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 3:29 PUT HIS MOUTH IN THE DUST.
Assume a posture that shows his humility and dependence on God. THERE
MAY YET BE HOPE because of God’s faithfulness (see v....
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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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2 Chronicles 33:12; Ezekiel 16:63; Job 40:4; Job 42:5; Job 42:6;...
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In the dust — Both this and the former verses let us know the duty
of persons under afflictions....