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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 was composed by Jeremiah, and is...
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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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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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Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations
against me; THOU HAST HEARD THEIR REPROACH - their reproachful
language against me.
Verse 62. THE LIPS - the speeches. Verse 63. BE...
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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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THOU HAST HEARD. — The verb governs the “lips_”_ of the next
verse as well as the “reproaches” of this. In the last clause we
note the emphasis of iteration, the natural dwelling on what was
prominent...
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שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ חֶרְפָּתָם֙ יְהוָ֔ה כָּל
־מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם עָלָֽי׃...
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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 see that this is a repetition, but for vengeances he now mentions
_reproaches _And in this way he sought again to turn God to mercy; for
when he brings no aid, he seems to close his eyes and to ren...
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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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THOU HAST HEARD THEIR REPROACH, O LORD,.... Their reproachful words
uttered against the prophet and his people, against God himself; their
spiteful language, their taunts, and scoffs and jeers:
[AND]...
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations
against me;
Ver. 61. _Thou hast heard their reproach._] Their spiteful speeches
and taunting terms have come into thine ears.
_ A...
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_O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong_ Here the prophet adverts to his
present sufferings, and the ill usage he met with, concerning which he
appeals to God; as if he had said, Thou hast seen that I have d...
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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE...
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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 praises...
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Whatever knowledge men get of things done from their eye or ear, thou
hast from thy omnisciency; thou knowest not only their malicious
actions, but words and thoughts....
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Lamentations 3:61 heard H8085 (H8804) reproach H2781 LORD H3068
schemes H4284
Lamentations 3:30, Lamentations 5:1; Psalms 74:18, Psalms 89:50;
Zephaniah 2:8...
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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 w...
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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, experienced God’s faithfulness (vv. Lamentations...
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EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Lamentations 3:59. Trials are not things of the past only. Under their
continuous pressure endurance is sought for in the truth that the eye
and ear of the Lord are ever open for a...
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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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Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 11:20; Lamentations 3:59; Psalms 10:14...