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Verse 27. _THAT HE BEAR THE YOKE IN HIS YOUTH._] Early _habits_, when
good, are invaluable. Early _discipline_ is equally so. He who has not
got under wholesome restraint in youth will never make a us...
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In these three verses, each beginning in the Hebrew with the word
good, we have first the fundamental idea that Yahweh Himself is good,
and if good to all, then especially is He so to those who being...
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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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_Good_is the leading word of this group. The knowledge of the Lord's
goodness (25) is that which (26) makes it good that man should be
hopeful and submissive and (27) makes him also to recognise the m...
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See intr. note....
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_in his youth_ in the time when his passions are strongest and
therefore most need the discipline, which, if established in its seat
then, will hold sway throughout his life. The words by no means imp...
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DISCOURSE: 1093
THE BENEFIT OF EARLY AFFLICTIONS
Lamentations 3:27. _It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his
youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
upon him....
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IT IS GOOD FOR A MAN THAT HE BEAR THE YOKE IN HIS YOUTH— We observed
in the introduction to this book, that there are some commentators,
and Michaelis among the rest, who conceive "that it was compose...
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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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The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him. THE LORD IS GOOD ... IT IS GOOD ... IT IS GOOD. The
repetition of "good" at the beginning of each of the three verses
heigh...
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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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THE LORD _is_ GOOD] 'good' is the initial word of each v. in this
group. Goodness to the poet is an essential attribute of Jehovah and
the basis of his hope. He is too good to keep them always in desp...
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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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BEAR THE YOKE IN HIS YOUTH. — The words have been pressed _“_with
a strange literalism” in favour of the view that the Lamentations
were written in the youth of Jeremiah and on the death of Josiah. It...
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טֹ֣וב לַ † גֶּ֔בֶר כִּֽי ־יִשָּׂ֥א
עֹ֖ל...
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QUIET WAITING
Lamentations 3:25
HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy.
Pursuing the ideas that flow out of the great truth of the endless
goodness of God, and the imme...
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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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[It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his (m) youth.
(m) He shows that we can never begin too soon to be exercised under
the cross, that when the afflictions grow greater, our patien...
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_Yoke. Afflictions endured for justice sake ensure a blessing.
(Haydock) --- All may derive great benefit from suffering._...
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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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This verse admits of two meanings; for the word yoke may be explained
as signifying teaching, or the scourges of God. We, indeed, undertake
or bear in two ways the yoke of God, even when we are taught...
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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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[IT IS] GOOD FOR A MAN THAT HE BEAR THE YOKE IN HIS YOUTH. Either the
yoke of the commandments, as the Targum; or of correction, as Aben
Ezra; of afflictions, as fatherly chastisements; both senses ma...
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Lamentations 3:27 _[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his
youth._
Ver. 27. _It is good for a man that he bear the yoke from his
youth._] The yoke of God's law, and the discipline of...
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_It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth_ That he be
inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a
right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedience...
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth, so that the
disciplinary value of various sufferings may have an opportunity to
work patience in his heart and enable him to bear the burdens o...
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God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
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21-36 Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows
how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the
mercy of God that they are not worse. We should observe what makes...
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GOOD here must be expounded in the same sense as in the foregoing
verse. It is not pleasant, but it is profitable, it is honourable,
what becomes us, and is our duty, quietly and patiently to bear wha...
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Lamentations 3:27 good H2896 man H1397 bear H5375 (H8799) yoke H5923
youth H5271
bear -...
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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 3:27
I. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of subjection to
authority. If he does not learn this lesson early, he will suffer for
it by-and-by.
II. It is good for a man t...
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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ט) Lamentations 3:25. Such an acceptance suggests more knowledge.
GOOD IS JEHOVAH TO THEM THAT WAIT FOR HIM, TO A SOUL THAT SEEKS HIM.
He is ready to respond to those who feel nee...
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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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Ecclesiastes 12:1; Hebrews 12:5; Matthew 11:29; Matthew 11:30;...
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Bear — Quietly and patiently to bear what afflictions God will
please to lay upon us. And if God tame us when young, by his word or
by his rod, it is an unspeakable advantage....