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Verse 30. _HE GIVETH_ HIS _CHEEK TO HIM THAT SMITETH_] He has that
love that is not provoked. He is not quarrelsome, nor apt to resent
injuries; he suffers long and is kind. Or, it may be rendered, "l...
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Let him sit alone and keep silence;
For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him.
Let him place his mouth in the dust;
Perchance there is hope.
Let him offer his cheek
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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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GIVETH HIS CHEEK. Compare Isaiah 50:6....
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See intr. note....
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_Let him give his cheek_ Cp. Job 16:10; Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 5:39....
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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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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon
him. HE ... KEEPETH SILENCE - the fruit of true docility and patience.
He does not fight against the yoke, "as a bullock unaccustom...
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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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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 GIVETH HIS CHEEK... — The submission enjoined reaches its highest
point — a patience like that of Job 16:10; we may add, like that of
the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:39.) It was harder to accept...
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יִתֵּ֧ן לְ מַכֵּ֛הוּ לֶ֖חִי
יִשְׂבַּ֥ע בְּ חֶ
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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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_Him. We cannot verify this of the prophet as we can of Christ,
(Matthew xxvi. 62.; Calmet) to whom this particularly refers.
(Worthington)_...
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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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Here he mentions another fruit of patience, that the faithful, even
when injuries are done to them by the wicked, would yet be calm and
resigned. For there are many who submit to God when they perceiv...
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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 GIVETH [HIS] CHEEK TO HIM THAT SMITETH HIM,.... Either to God that
afflicts him, and patiently bears it; see Isaiah 9:13; or rather to
men. To be smitten on the cheek is always reckoned a very grea...
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He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with
reproach.
Ver. 30. _He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him._] Humility,
the product of affliction sanctified, is still at he...
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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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God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
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He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him, submitting even to
injustice if it serves the cause of the Lord, Cf Matthew 5:39; HE IS
FILLED FULL WITH REPROACH, enduring also the scorn which men heap u...
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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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According to our Saviour's precept, MATTHEW 5:39, he doth not take any
private revenge; he is reproached and reviled, but when he is so he
_revileth not again_, 1 PETER 2:23; he is filled with reproac...
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Lamentations 3:30 give H5414 (H8799) cheek H3895 strikes H5221 (H8688)
full H7646 (H8799) reproach H2781
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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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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.—
(י) Lamentations 3:28. A yoke is not of itself beneficial; it must be
borne along with desires and efforts to reach to its purpose. “Since
it is good for man that he should learn to...
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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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2 Corinthians 11:20; Isaiah 50:6; Job 16:10; Luke 6:29; Micah 5:1;...