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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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ARROWS. sons. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis._ As "sparks" are
called "sons of the flame"....
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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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_shafts_ lit. as mg. the more poetical _sons_.
_reins_ See on Jeremiah 12:2....
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THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER— _The sons of his quiver._ Houbigant. It is
usual in the Hebrew to call the subject, adjunct, accident, effect,
&c. the _son_ of that particular thing. Hence it is that the He...
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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 caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
ARROWS - literally, sons of His quiver (cf. , "The arrows of the
Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit").
V...
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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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3:13 arrows (a-5) Lit. 'sons.'...
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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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ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER] RM 'sons of his quiver,' a poetical expression
for the enemies' taunts (Jeremiah 20:8).
MY REINS] The English equivalent is heart, denoting the seat of the
affections (Jeremiah...
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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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THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER. — Literally, _children._ The other side of
the analogy appears in Psalms 127:5....
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הֵבִיא֙ בְּ כִלְיֹותָ֔י בְּנֵ֖י
אַשְׁפָּתֹֽו׃...
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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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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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He goes on with the same metaphor; he said in the last verse that God
had leveled his bow; he now adds, that his arrows had penetrated into
his reins, that is, into his inward parts. But we must bear...
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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 CAUSED THE ARROWS OF HIS QUIVER,.... Or, "the sons of his
quiver" i; an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra
observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression,
"v...
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Ver. 13. _He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my
reins._] _a_ Heb., The sons of his quiver, by a Hebraism. So Horace...
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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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He hath caused the arrows of His quiver, the darts of affliction, TO
ENTER INTO MY REINS, the vital organs of the body, as we now speak of
the heart....
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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ARROWS:
_ Heb._ sons...
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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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That is, he hath made his judgments to pierce the most inward parts of
the nation; or, he hath mortally wounded me. In the Hebrew it is, _the
daughters of his quiver, _ a way of speaking very usual in...
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Lamentations 3:13 arrows H1121 quiver H827 pierce H935 (H8689) loins
H3629
arrows - Heb. sons, Deuteronomy 32:23
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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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Deuteronomy 32:23; Job 41:28; Job 6:4...