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Verse 12. _HE HATH BENT HIS BOW, AND SET ME AS A MARK FOR THE_
_ARROW._] One might conjecture that the following thought in the
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"One addressed the caliph...
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Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now
shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.
Lamentations 3:11
The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me...
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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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HIS BOW. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._...
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Jehovah is now likened not to the beast of prey, but to the hunter.
Cp. Job 16:12 f....
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
A SUFFERING PROPHET
Lamentations 3:1-66
Again in chapter three the poet has adopted the acrostic style but in
a slightly different form from that of the previous Chapter s. In
Ch...
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He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret
places. HE WAS UNTO ME AS A BEAR LYING IN WAIT, AND AS A LION (; thus
fulfilling the threat, "I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopa...
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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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HE _was_] RV 'He is.' _As_ A BEAR.. _as_ A LION] God is even lying in
wait to oppose him (Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 5:6).
Danger follows distress....
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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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HE HATH BENT HIS BOW. — (Comp. Job 16:12.) The figure is changed,
but there is a natural sequence of thought. The lion suggests the
huntsman. but he appears on the scene not to save the victim, but to...
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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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_Arrows. Such places were common where shooting was practised, 1 Kings
xx. 36., and Job xvi. 11._...
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He
hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely
against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the...
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Here the Prophet introduces another metaphor, that God had shot him
with arrows, as he was made a mark to them. Jeremiah has elsewhere
often used the word מתרא, _methera_, for a prison; but here it
me...
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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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HE HATH BENT HIS BOW,.... Which is put for all the instruments, of
war; the Chaldeans were archers, and shot their arrows into the city:
AND SET ME AS A MARK FOR THE ARROW; as a target to shoot at;
s...
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He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Ver. 12. _He hath bent his bow._] Lamentations 2:4 .
_ And set me as a mark._] Which he is sure to hit. The Benjamites, Jdg
20:16 the Parthi...
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_He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone_ He hath not only hedged it
up _with thorns, Hosea 2:6_, but stopped it up with a stone wall which
cannot be broken through; so that _my paths_ are _made crook...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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He hath bent His bow, taking deliberate aim at His target, AND SET ME
AS A MARK FOR THE ARROW. Cf Job 16:12....
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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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He hath prepared himself for acts of vindicative justice, and he hath
made me the object of it....
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Lamentations 3:12 bent H1869 (H8804) bow H7198 set H5324 (H8686)
target H4307 arrow H2671
bent -...
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IN HIS INITIAL DESPAIR THE PROPHET BEWAILS HIS OWN SAD CONDITION
(LAMENTATIONS 3:1).
In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of
His Name being in Lamentations 3:18 where the...
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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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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ד) Lamentations 3:10. Difficulties had been embarrassing, but
dangers were also added. In the crooked paths THE BEAR AND THE LION
lurked, and he is there, like them, LYING IN WAIT...
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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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Job 16:12; Job 16:13; Job 6:4; Job 7:20; Psalms 38:2;...