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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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THY NAME. Thee, or Thy attributes. See note on Psalms 20:1....
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See intr. note....
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DISCOURSE: 1095
THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER
Lamentations 3:54. _Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am
cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou
hast heard my voice: h...
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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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I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. I CALLED UPON
THY NAME ... OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON. Thus the spirit resists the
flesh, and faith spurns the temptation (Calvin; ; ).
Verse 56....
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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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OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON. — Here, again, we have to choose between a
literal reference to Jeremiah’s sufferings or a figurative
interpretation. The phrase is the same as that of Psalms 88:6....
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קָרָ֤אתִי שִׁמְךָ֙ יְהוָ֔ה מִ בֹּ֖ור
תַּחְתִּיֹּֽות׃...
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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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We certainly see that the Prophet had an inward conflict, which also
all the faithful experience, for the spirit fights against the flesh,
as Paul teaches us. (Galatians 5:17.) Though, then, he on the...
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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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I CALLED UPON THY NAME, O LORD,.... As in times past, so in the
present distress; when all hope was gone, and all help failed, still
there was a God to go to, and call upon:
OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON; o...
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I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Ver. 55. _I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon._]
See 1 John 2:1. _See Trapp on "_ Psa 130:1 _"_ _See Trapp "_ Jon 2:1
_"_...
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_Mine enemies chased me sore_ “The prophet in this, and the
following verses, describes his own sufferings, when his enemies
seized him and put him into the dungeon, Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah
38:6. He...
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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
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I called upon Thy name, O Lord, thus overcoming the despair which was
trying to paralyze his faith, OUT OF THE LOW DUNGEON, out of the pit
which threatened to become his grave....
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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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That is, out of my deepest affliction, as Jonah out of the _belly of
hell,_ JONAH 2:2. I cried unto God, and called upon him for mercy....
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Lamentations 3:55 called H7121 (H8804) name H8034 LORD H3068 lowest
H8482 pit H953...
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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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Lamentations 3:52. _Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without
cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon
me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off...
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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 3:55 In the DEPTHS OF THE PIT (the
worst days of his suffering), the speaker called upon God, who had
placed him there. YOU HEARD MY PLEA. See...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(צ) Lamentations 3:52. THEY HAVE HUNTED ME DOWN LIKE A BIRD is hunted
when pursued with the eagerness of THOSE WHO ARE MY ENEMIES WITHOUT
CAUSE, and who will not relax efforts till...
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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 1:8; Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 38:10; Job 17:11; Jonah