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Verse 39. _WHEREFORE DOTH A LIVING MAN COMPLAIN_] He who has his life
still lent to him has small cause of complaint. How great soever his
affliction may be, he is still _alive_; therefore, he may see...
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Why then does a loving God, who disapproves of suffering when
inflicted by man upon man, Himself send sorrow and misery? “Because
of sins.”
Lamentations 3:37
Literally, “Who is this that spake and i...
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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 order of thought in this group is, All events are absolutely in
the hands of God. Thus calamity and prosperity come in response to His
command. But it is man's sin that procures for him the former...
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The E.VV., making the whole line to be a question, are more in
consonance with the construction of the two earlier members of the
group, than is the other proposed rendering, viz. _Of what should a
li...
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WHEREFORE DOTH A LIVING MAN COMPLAIN— If we consider God's
afflictions as a just punishment of our evil doings, we shall never
murmur or repine at Providence; and we ought to be thankful, however
bitt...
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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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Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth
it not? WHO IS HE THAT SAITH, AND IT COMETH TO PASS. A double question
is implied, Who is it that can (as God, ) effect by a word...
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3:39 man (c-8) _ Geber_ , Job 3:3 . 'living man' in this verse is _
Adam_ . punishment (d-11) _ chet_ ; sin, also punishment, Isaiah 1:18
, 'sins.' see Zechariah 14:19 ....
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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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(37-39) New grounds of patient faith are given: (1) In an echo from
Psalms 33:9, affirming the sovereignty of God. The evil which He
permits is under the control of this loving purpose; and (2) as far...
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WHEREFORE DOTH A LIVING MAN... — Better, _Why doth a man who lives?
i.e.,_ whose life is spared him (comp. Jeremiah 45:5), with all its
possibilities of good, complain of sufferings which, however unj...
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מַה ־יִּתְאֹונֵן֙ אָדָ֣ם חָ֔י גֶּ֖בֶר
עַל־_חֲטָאָֽיו_†
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GOD AND EVIL
Lamentations 3:37
THE eternal problem of the relation of God to evil is here treated
with the keenest discrimination. That God is the supreme and
irresistible ruler, that no man can succ...
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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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Why doth a living (t) man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins?
(t) When God afflicts him....
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_Sins? If all happened by inevitable necessity, or according to the
laws of Providence, why should any one complain?_...
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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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_THROUGH REPENTANCE TO FAITH_
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins? Let us search and try our way...
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Some explain the verb יתאונן, _itaunen, _by giving it the sense
of lying, “Why should man lie?” others, “Why should man
murmur?” But I see not what sense there can be in rendering it lying
or murmurin...
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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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WHEREFORE DOTH A LIVING MAN COMPLAIN?.... Or murmur, or fret and vex,
or bemoan himself; all which the word k may signify; as the prophet
had done in his own person; or as representing the church,
Lam...
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Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins?
Ver. 39. _Wherefore doth a living man complain?_] Mourn immoderately,
or murmur causelessly. 1. If he mourn, let him mourn...
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_Wherefore_, &c. The prophet here seems to check and blame himself for
the complaints he had made in the former part of the chapter, wherein
he appeared to reflect upon God as unkind and severe. And f...
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COMPLAIN:
Or, murmur...
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37-41 While there is life there is hope; and instead of complaining
that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope they
will be better. We are sinful men, and what we complain of, i...
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This verse admits of various senses, caused from the various
interpretation of the Hebrew word, which we translate _complain_,
which also signifies to mourn or grieve; so some render it, Why doth a
li...
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Lamentations 3:39 living H2416 man H120 complain H596 (H8691) man
H1397 sins H2399
doth -...
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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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Lamentations 3:39
This question suggests two considerations; each of which demonstrates
the injustice of the complaint Why should a living man complain? A
living man! Life is still left thee; and of w...
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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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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.—
(מ) Lamentations 3:37. The reason for not mentioning any name of God,
as in Lamentations 3:1, is now wholly dispensed with, and He is
presented as conditionating all events. He obse...
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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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Amos 3:6; Isaiah 45:7; Job 2:10; Proverbs 29:26; Psalms 75:7...
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Wherefore — The Jews, check themselves in their complaints from the
consideration, that nothing had befallen them, but what was the just
reward of their sins....