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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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NEW. fresh.
EVERY MORNING. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for
always and continually....
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There are metrical irregularities in these _vv_. as they stand. We
should probably (with Löhr) read the first, "The Lord's compassion
ceaseth not"; "His love is not spent," and the second, which is no...
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DISCOURSE: 1091
THE VIEWS OF A SAINT IN HIS AFFLICTIONS
Lamentations 3:22. _It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not
consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every
morning: great i...
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II. HIS CONFESSION OF FAITH Lamentations 3:19-39
Since the poet's outlook was bleak he tries the uplook. He calls upon
God to remember his predicament (Lamentations 3:19) because he himself
is not abl...
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It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his
compassions fail not.
[ IT IS OF THE LORD'S MERCIES ... WE ARE NOT CONSUMED ] - (, "I am the
Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons o...
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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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THEY ARE NEW. — The subject of the sentence is found in the
“compassions” of the preceding verse. With the dawn of every day
there dawn also the mercies of Jehovah....
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חֲדָשִׁים֙ לַ † בְּקָרִ֔ים רַבָּ֖ה
אֱמוּנָתֶֽךָ׃...
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THE UNFAILING GOODNESS OF GOD
Lamentations 3:22
ALTHOUGH the elegist has prepared us for brighter scenes by the more
hopeful tone of an intermediate triplet, the transition from the gloom
and bittern...
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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 (k) every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
(k) We feel your benefits daily....
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_New. Novi should be novæ, to agree with miserationes. (Calmet) ---
Chaldean, "new miracles" occur daily. (Haydock) --- God's mercies are
ever fresh. (Worthington)_...
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This...
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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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_‘NEW EVERY MORNING’_
The Lord’s mercies … are new every morning.
Lamentations 3:22
In the classical myths, Tithonus, a son of Laomedon, king of Troy,
was so fair and winsome a youth that Eos, or A...
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This verse confirms what I have said, that the same truth is here
repeated by the Prophet, that God’s mercies were not consumed, nor
had his compassion’s failed. How so? Because they were new, or
rene...
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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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[THEY ARE] NEW EVERY MORNING,.... That is, the tender mercies or
compassions of God are, which prove that they fail not; there are
instances of them every day, not only in a temporal, but in a
spiritu...
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Lamentations 3:23 [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy
faithfulness.
Ver. 23. _They are new every morning._] Yea, every moment. We have
continual experiments.
_ Great is thy faithfulness._] G...
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_This I recall to my mind_, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest
motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind
the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope an...
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They are new every morning, namely, the evidences of His love and
mercy; GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS, the outflow of His compassionate
love in fulfilling His promises. These wonderful facts the sacred
w...
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God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
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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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These compassions of God are renewed day by day, to declare the great
faithfulness of God in fulfilling his many promises made for mercy to
his people....
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Lamentations 3:23 new H2319 morning H1242 Great H7227 faithfulness
H530
new - Psalms 30:5;...
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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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Lamentations 3:22
This is one of those very bright thoughts which lie across this dark
book like an April ray upon a retiring cloud. There is no book in the
Bible which is more characterised by the 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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LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:23 NEW EVERY MORNING. Each day
presents another opportunity to experience God’s grace.
FAITHFULNESS. God’s constant goodness and personal integrity remain
intact no...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ח) Lamentations 3:22. The hopefulness which had begun to lift a
desponding soul points to the ground on which it may become secure.
Its hazy outlook is seeming to clear, and, as in...
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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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Exodus 34:6; Hebrews 10:23; Hebrews 6:18; Isaiah 33:2; Psalms 146:6;...
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Faithfulness — In fulfilling thy promises to thy people....