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SHOUT - i. e. call for help.
SHUTTETH OUT - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues
to the place in which he is immured, that his voice can find no
egress....
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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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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 hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain
heavy. HEDGED - (; ). Hosea shows that this hedging up for Israel is
not for her eternal ruin, but for good in the end, "I will h...
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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 HATH MADE MY PATHS CROOKED] in the sense that every avenue of
advance is blocked....
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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 SHUTTETH OUT MY PRAYER — _i.e.,_ stops it so that it does not
reach the ear of Jehovah; and it is Jehovah himself who does this....
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גַּ֣ם כִּ֤י אֶזְעַק֙ וַ אֲשַׁוֵּ֔עַ
שָׂתַ֖ם ת
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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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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (c) prayer.
(c) This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the
fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not
heard...
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_Prayer. God would not allow him to pray for the people, chap. vii.
16._...
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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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The Prophet describes here the extremity of all evils, that it availed
him nothing to cry and to pray. And yet we know that we are called to
do this in all our miseries.
“The strongest tower is the n...
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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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ALSO WHEN I CRY AND SHOUT,.... Cry, because of the distress of the
enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as
persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case: t...
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Ver. 8. _Also when I cry and shout._] As poor prisoners use to do for
relief and release.
_ He shutteth out my prayer._] Or, Shutteth his ear to...
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_Also when I cry and shout_ When, under a conviction that, in my
present distressed condition, I cannot deliver myself, and that no
creature can deliver me, I make application to God in prayer for
del...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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Also when I cry and shout, begging for deliverance, HE SHUTTETH OUT MY
PRAYER, this refusal to hear making the afflictions all the harder to
bear....
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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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In the condition I am in, I cannot help myself, no creatures can help
me, I have no hope but in God. I take the ordinary course in that
case, which is prayer, I pray fervently and aloud, as those that...
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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.—
(ב) Lamentations 3:4. Details as to how the writer suffered. MY FLESH
AND MY SKIN HE HAS WORN OUT, HE HAS BROKEN MY BONES. Bodily exhaustion
and racking pains consume the vital for...
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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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Habakkuk 1:2; Job 19:7; Job 30:20; Lamentations 3:44; Matthew 27:46;...