This elegy Lamentations 3 is both the most elaborate in form and the
most sublime in its ideas of the five poems which compose the Book of
Lamentations. It presents the image of the deepest suffering,...
Lamentations 3:1-21. Laments mingled with hope
For remarks upon (_a_) the character of this ch., (_b_) its more
elaborate acrostic structure, and (_c_) its probable date see Intr.
chs. 1 § 4, 2 § 4,...
_THE FAITHFUL BEWAIL THEIR CALAMITIES. BY THE MERCIES OF GOD THEY
NOURISH THEIR HOPE. THEY ACKNOWLEDGE GOD'S JUSTICE, THEY PRAY FOR
DELIVERANCE, AND FOR JUSTICE ON THEIR ENEMIES._
_Before Christ 588...
REVIEW OF CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
1.
How does the acrostic pattern in this chapter differ from that of the
first two Chapter s of Lamentations?
2.
Is the third chapter of Lamentations an individual or...
III.
The elegy which is contained in this chapter is alphabetic in its
structure, like the two that precede it, but it is of a more
complicated character, three consecutive verses beginning with the...
INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 3
This chapter is a complaint and lamentation like the former, and on
the same subject, only the prophet mixes his own afflictions and
distresses with the public calamiti...
CHAPTER 3. IN THIS CHAPTER THE PROPHET COMMENCES BY BEMOANING HIS OWN
PERSONAL AFFLICTIONS, BUT THEN GOES ON TO STRESS GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO
THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM. COMPLAINING ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES H...
AN IDEAL REPRESENTATION OF NATIONAL SORROW
The middle elegy is, not only in structure but also in tone, readily
distinguished from the other four. An element of personality is
manifest in it which is...