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Verse 34. _TO CRUSH UNDER HIS FEET_] He can neither gain credit nor
pleasure in trampling upon those who are already _bound_, and in
suffering; such he knows to be the state of man here below. From wh...
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Neither does God approve of wanton cruelty inflicted by one man on
another. Three examples are given: the treatment of prisoners of war;
the procuring an unjust sentence before a legal tribunal acting...
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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 wh...
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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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See intr. note....
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ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE EARTH— _All the prisoners of the land._ By
"the prisoners of the land," I am persuaded are meant the poor
insolvent debtors, whom their creditors among the Jews, as well as
am...
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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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To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, TO CRUSH ...
TO TURN ASIDE ... TO SUBVERT. This triplet has an infinitive in the
beginning of each verse, the governing finite verb being in th...
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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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(34-36) TO CRUSH... — The triplet of verses forms one sentence
dependent upon the final clause, “The Lord approveth not,”
literally, _doth not look on._ By some critics the literal meaning is
kept in...
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לְ דַכֵּא֙ תַּ֣חַת רַגְלָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל
אֲסִ֥ירֵי אָֽרֶץ׃...
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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 imm...
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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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Many interpreters think that these three verses are connected with the
previous doctrine, and show the connection thus, — that God does not
see, that is, does not know what it is to pervert the good c...
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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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TO CRUSH UNDER HIS FEET ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE EARTH. These words,
with what follow in Lamentations 3:35; either depend upon the
preceding, and are to be connected with them, "he doth not afflict",...
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_To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,_
Ver. 34. _To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,_]
_i.e., _ All those that are in misery, to lay more load upon them, and
so...
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_To crush under his feet_, &c. In these verses certain acts of
tyranny, malice, and injustice are specified, in the practice of which
men are prone to indulge themselves one toward another, but which...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Lamentations 3:34 crush H1792 (H8763) feet H7272 prisoners H615 earth
H776
crush - Isaiah 51:22-23; Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:33-34, Jeremiah
51:33-36
all - Psalms 69:33,...
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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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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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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, experienced God’s faithfulness (vv. Lamentations...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
(ל) Lamentations 3:34. The Lord does not afflict willingly, yet He is
not indifferent to the injustice of man to man. All the details of
human procedure are regarded by Him, and he...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 3:1
MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH
THAT OF THE NATION; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION PERSONIFIED (see
Introduction).
LAMENTATIONS 3:1
SEEN...
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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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Isaiah 14:17; Isaiah 49:9; Isaiah 51:22; Isaiah 51:23; Jeremiah 50:17;
Jeremiah 50:33; Jeremiah 50:34; Jeremiah 51:33; Psalms 102:20;...