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Verse Lamentations 3:60. _THOU HAST SEEN - ALL THEIR IMAGINATIONS_]
Every thing is open to the eye of God. Distressed soul! though _thou_
knowest not _what_ thy enemies _meditate_ against thee; yet he...
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A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Lamentations 3:55
OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some
consider that Psalms 69
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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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See intr. note....
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Cp. Jeremiah 11:19....
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V. HIS PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE Lamentations 3:55-66
TRANSLATION
(55) I called on Your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit. (56)
You have heard my voice! Do not close Your ear to my sighing, to my...
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O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed
my life.
Jeremiah cites God's gracious answers to his prayers, in times past,
as an encouragement to his fellow-countrymen to trus...
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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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PLEADED] as an advocate (Jeremiah 50:34). ALL THEIR IMAGINATIONS] RV
'all their devices' (Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 18:18)....
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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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ALL THEIR IMAGINATIONS... — Same word as the “devices” of
Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 18:18, to which the writer obviously refers....
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רָאִ֨יתָה֙ כָּל ־נִקְמָתָ֔ם כָּל
־מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם לִֽי׃ ס...
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_ DE PROFUNDIS_
Lamentations 3:55
As this third elegy-the richest and the most elaborate of the five
that constitute the Book of Lamentations-draws to a close it retains
its curious character of vari...
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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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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 mode of speaking was often used by the saints, because God, when
it pleased him to look on their miseries, was ever ready to bring them
help. Nor were they words without meaning, when the faithfu...
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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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THOU HAST SEEN ALL THEIR VENGEANCE,.... The spirit of revenge in them;
their wrath and fury, and how they burn with a desire of doing
mischief; as well as their revengeful actions, carriage, and
behav...
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations
against me.
Ver. 60. _Thou hast seen all their vengeance._] See on Lamentations
3:59. The saints fare the better for their enemies' spi...
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_O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong_ Here the prophet adverts to his
present sufferings, and the ill usage he met with, concerning which he
appeals to God; as if he had said, Thou hast seen that I have d...
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against
me, all their vindictive, malicious devices....
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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
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55-66 Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet
concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man,
drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praise...
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Thou hast been a witness to all their fury and rage, and all their
malicious and bloody contrivances against me....
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THE PROPHET LOOKS BACK ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES AND CALLS ON YHWH TO
AVENGE HIM (LAMENTATIONS 3:52).
The chapter commenced with the personal experience of the prophet in
Lamentations 3:1 but there it wa...
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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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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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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:59 God has SEEN THE WRONG DONE
TO the speaker. Jerusalem prayed for this in Lamentations 1:9,...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 3:59. Trials are not things of the past only. Under their
continuous pressure endurance is sought for in the truth that the eye
and ear of the Lord are ever open for al...
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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 Peter 2:23; Genesis 31:42; Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 15:10;...
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Seen — Thou hast been a witness to all their fury....