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Verse 9. _HE HATH INCLOSED MY WAYS WITH HEWN STONE_] He has put
insuperable obstacles in my way; and confounded all my projects of
deliverance and all my expectations of prosperity....
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INCLOSED - Or, hedged Lamentations 3:7.
HATH, MADE CROOKED - Or, “hath” turned aside. A solid wall being
built across the main road, Jeremiah turns aside into by-ways, but
finds them turned aside, so...
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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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CROOKED. to turn or wind back....
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_hath made my paths crooked_ The writer, seeing that the direct way
was as it were blocked, tried side paths, but found that they also
failed to lead him in the desired direction. The figure expresses...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
A SUFFERING PROPHET
Lamentations 3:1-66
Again in chapter three the poet has adopted the acrostic style but in
a slightly different form from that of the previous Chapter s. In
Ch...
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He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain
heavy. HEDGED - (; ). Hosea shows that this hedging up for Israel is
not for her eternal ruin, but for good in the end, "I will h...
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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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HE HATH MADE MY PATHS CROOKED] in the sense that every avenue of
advance is blocked....
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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 HATH INCLOSED. — Yet another figure of resourceless misery
follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner’s way. When
he turns aside into by-paths, they are turned and twisted in
labyrint...
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גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּ גָזִ֔ית
נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה׃ ס...
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THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION
Lamentations 3:1
WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious
point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as
by far th...
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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 hath (d) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths
crooked.
(d) And keeps me in hold as a prisoner....
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_Stones. There is no passage, Job xix. 8._...
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He
hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely
against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the...
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Other metaphors are used. Some think that the Prophet refers to the
siege of Jerusalem, but such a view is not suitable. The metaphors
correspond with one another, though they are somewhat different....
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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 HATH ENCLOSED MY WAYS WITH HEWN STONE,.... Not with a hedge of
thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and these not rough,
and laid loosely together, but hewn and put in order, and well...
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths
crooked.
Ver. 9. _He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone,_] _i.e., _ Most
strongly and closely, so that none can come at me.
_ He ha...
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_He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone_ He hath not only hedged it
up _with thorns, Hosea 2:6_, but stopped it up with a stone wall which
cannot be broken through; so that _my paths_ are _made crook...
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1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his
experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his
trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an afflictio...
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WAYS in Scripture ordinarily signifies men's courses, and methods of
counsels, and actions; if the term be taken in that sense here, it
signifieth God's defeating all their methods and counsels taken...
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Lamentations 3:9 blocked H1443 (H8804) ways H1870 stone H1496 paths
H5410 crooked H5753 (H8765)
made -...
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IN HIS INITIAL DESPAIR THE PROPHET BEWAILS HIS OWN SAD CONDITION
(LAMENTATIONS 3:1).
In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of
His Name being in Lamentations 3:18 where the...
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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.—
(ב) Lamentations 3:4. Details as to how the writer suffered. MY FLESH
AND MY SKIN HE HAS WORN OUT, HE HAS BROKEN MY BONES. Bodily exhaustion
and racking pains consume the vital for...
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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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Isaiah 30:28; Isaiah 63:17; Lamentations 3:11...
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Enclosed — He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security,
by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone. Crooked — Nay,
God not only defeated their counsels, but made them fatal and...