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Verse 18. _AND MY HOPE_] That first, that last support of the
miserable-it is gone! it is perished! The sovereign God alone can
revive it....
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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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STRENGTH. strength (for endurance). Hebrew. _nezah._ See notes on
Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 40:29;...
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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 also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me
with ashes. HE HATH ... BROKEN MY TEETH WITH GRAVEL - referring to the
grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the c...
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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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BROKEN MY TEETH WITH GRAVEL STONES] i.e. God has forced him to eat
bread full of grit. (Proverbs 20:17). HE HATH COVERED ME WITH ASHES]
or, 'He made me cower in the ashes.' Such dreadful thoughts abou...
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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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I SAID, MY STRENGTH. — The sorrow of the mourner comes to the very
verge of despair. There was “no help for him from his God;” even
that hope had left him. But, as the sequel shows, this despair was t...
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וָ אֹמַר֙ אָבַ֣ד נִצְחִ֔י וְ
תֹוחַלְתִּ֖י מֵ
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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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And I said, My strength and my (g) hope hath perished from the LORD:
(g) Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair,
as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the v...
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_End. Hebrew, "strength." Septuagint, "victory." (Calmet)_...
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This verse shews what I have before reminded you of, that the Prophet
does not here speak as though he was divested of every sin, and
prescribed a perfect rule for prayer. But, on the contrary, in ord...
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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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AND I SAID, MY STRENGTH AND MY HOPE ARE PERISHED FROM THE LORD. The
former of these words signifies, according to Aben Ezra, "my
standing", my subsistence, my continuance in being, or my perpetuity;
a...
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Ver. 18. _And I said._] But not so wisely. I was even almost tumbling
into the pit of desperation. I was straddling over it, as it were,...
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_I was a derision to all my people_ To all the wicked among them, who
made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public
judgments; _and their song all the day_ Hebrew, נגינתם, their
instr...
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A LAMENT OVER GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS...
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. His
vitality was sapped by his afflictions, and his hope and trust in
Jehovah had left him. Thus even children of the Lord are at times s...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Lamentations 3:18 said H559 (H8799) strength H5331 hope H8431 perished
H6 (H8804) LORD H3068...
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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.—
Lamentations 3:18. This reads like an account of the climax to the
trials undergone. I SAID, as if talking to myself, MY STRENGTH IS
PERISHED, AND MY EXPECTATION FROM JEHOVAH. The f...
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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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1 Samuel 27:1; Ezekiel 37:11; Job 17:15; Job 6:11; Psalms 116:11;...