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The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them.
Lamentations 3:40
AND TURN AGAIN TO THE LORD - Or, “and return to Yahweh.” The prep.
(to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the...
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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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TRANSGRESSED. revolted. Hebrew. _p_ asha _'_. App-44. Compare
Lamentations 1:22....
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See intr. note....
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_Let us search_ As it is through our sins that this evil is come upon
us, let us (40) seek out what has been amiss in us and repent, (41)
place ourselves before God in prayer, (42) confess our sin....
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_We … thou_ The pronouns are emphatic in the original. _Thou_and
_we_have been at variance.
_thou … pardoned_ Observe how this clause forms a connecting link
with the next group; similarly "mine eye...
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III. HIS APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE Lamentations 3:40-47
TRANSLATION
(40) Let us search and examine our ways and return to the LORD. (41)
Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in heaven: (42) We ha...
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. LET US -
Jeremiah and his fellow-countrymen in their calamity.
SEARCH - as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their
outward...
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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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OUR HEART WITH _our_ HANDS] strictly, our heart to our palms, in the
sense that the heart should actually follow in the direction in which
our hands point (Jeremiah 4:31).
43-45 Zion's condition is d...
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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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WE HAVE TRANSGRESSED... — The verses that follow (Lamentations
3;42-47) give the prayer which answers to the call of Lamentations
3:41. Both pronouns are emphatic: The suppliant has sinned and God has...
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נַ֤חְנוּ פָשַׁ֨עְנוּ֙ וּ מָרִ֔ינוּ
אַתָּ֖ה לֹ֥א...
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THE RETURN
Lamentations 3:40
WHEN prophets, speaking in the name of God, promised the exiles a
restoration to their land and the homes of their fathers, it was
always understood and often expressly a...
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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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_Inexorable. Hebrew and Septuagint, "Thou hast not shewn pity."
(Haydock)_...
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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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The faithful do not here expostulate with God, but on the contrary
acknowledge that God’s severity was just. That God then had dealt
with them severely, they ascribe to their own sins, This is the
sub...
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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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WE HAVE TRANSGRESSED, AND HAVE REBELLED,.... Here begins the prayer,
the sense of which is directed to, though the words are not dictated;
and it begins with confession of sin, as prayer should, espec...
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We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Ver. 42. _We have transgressed and have rebelled._] We have committed
evil and omitted good, and failed in the manner, and are therefor...
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_We have transgressed_, &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the
effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be
convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us that...
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We have transgressed and have rebelled, the emphasis being on the
pronoun, as in every sincere confession of sin; THOU HAST NOT
PARDONED, that Isaiah He had not, like a weak earthly father,
overlooked...
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CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
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42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was
grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping,
they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relie...
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The prophet doth not dictate words, but sense to them, teaching them
the matter of their prayer; first, by way of confession. Sin is called
a _transgression_, because it is going aside from the way of...
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Lamentations 3:42 We H5168 transgressed H6586 (H8804) rebelled H4784
(H8804) pardoned H5545 (H8804)
transgressed -...
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THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE
SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO
PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40).
The prophet now calls on the peopl...
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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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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.—
(נ) Lamentations 3:40. The remnant, who were referred to in
Lamentations 3:22, carry out here the suggestion just made, that
sighing, not over sufferings but over sins, is the becom...
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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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1 Thessalonians 2:8; Psalms 141:2; Psalms 143:6; Psalms 25:1; P
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Thou — Thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our
sins....