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REMEMBERING - Or, as in the margin. It is a prayer to Yahweh.
MY MISERY - Or, “my” homelessness (Lamentations 1:7 note)....
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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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REMEMBERING. Remember....
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God is now directly invoked.
_misery_ mg. _wandering_, or, _outcast state_....
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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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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
(.) REMEMBERING MINE AFFLICTION ... This gives the reason why he gave
way to the temptation to despair implied in , "My hope is...
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3:19 wandering, (b-7) Or 'my misery.' see ch. 1.7....
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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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REMEMBERING] RV 'remember,' in the imperative sense (Lamentations
1:7). THIS I RECALL] viz. what just precedes, his affliction....
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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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REMEMBERING. — The verb, which is rendered by the Authorised version
as a gerundial infinitive, is better taken as an imperative, _Remember
mine affliction;_ the prayer being addressed to Jehovah. The...
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זְכָר ־עָנְיִ֥י וּ מְרוּדִ֖י לַעֲנָ֥ה
וָ רֹֽא
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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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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This...
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_SHADOW AND SUNSHINE_
‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’
Lamentations 3:19; Lamentations 3:22
I. SPEAKING FOR HIMSELF, THE PROPHET PERSONIFIES HIS PEOPLE
(Lamentations 3
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The verb may be considered as an imperative; it is an infinitive mood,
but it is often taken in Hebrew as an imperative. Thus, many deem it a
prayer, _Remember my affliction and my trouble, the gall a...
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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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REMEMBERING MINE AFFLICTION AND MY MISERY,.... The miserable
affliction of him and his people; the remembrance of which, and poring
upon it continually, caused the despondency before expressed: though...
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_I was a derision to all my people_ To all the wicked among them, who
made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public
judgments; _and their song all the day_ Hebrew, נגינתם, their
instr...
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Remembering, or, "Remember," MINE AFFLICTION AND MY MISERY, THE
WORMWOOD AND THE GALL, the sufferings about which he has just
complained so bitterly....
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God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
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REMEMBERING:
Or, remember...
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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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If, according to our translation, we read REMEMBERING, or _While I
remember_, these two verses contain but one sentence; in tire former
part the prophet in the name of this people expresseth their
des...
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Lamentations 3:19 Remember H2142 (H8798) affliction H6040 roaming
H4788 wormwood H3939 gall H7219
Remembering - or, Remember,...
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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 3:19 A prayer for God to REMEMBER
all that the speaker has suffered. God has not remembered Jerusalem
and protected her (see note on 2:1). worm
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 3:18. This reads like an account of the climax to the
trials undergone. I SAID, as if talking to myself, MY STRENGTH IS
PERISHED, AND MY EXPECTATION FROM JEHOVAH. The f...
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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 9:15; Job 7:7; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:5; Nehem
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Wormwood — Wormwood and gall, are often made use of to signify great
affliction....