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Darby's translation notes (1890)

Lamentations 3 - Introduction

1:1 (a-0) In chs. 1 and 2 the initial letter of each verse, consisting of three parts or lines, follows the alphabetical order.

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See also Lamentations 3 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

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