They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness. To God in heaven. The streams of mercy acknowledged: We are not consumed. You have slain and not pitied. That God does not approve of them. He has covered me with ashes, as mourners used to be, or (as some read it) he has fed me with ashes. 2. Judge my case. It is no pleasure to God to afflict men. Lamentations chapter 3. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, They complain of the afflictions they are under, not without some reflections upon God, which we are not to imitate, but, under the sharpest trials, must always think and speak highly and kindly of him. a. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. But here it seems to be meant of the yoke of affliction. Like a lawyer pleading for his client, God pleaded the case for his life. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. You have heard their reproach, O LORD, I have even given up all for gone, concluding, My strength and my hope have perished from the Lord (v. 18); I can no longer stay myself upon God as my support, for I do not find that he gives me encouragement to do so; nor can I look for his appearing in my behalf, so as to put an end to my troubles, for the case seems remediless, and even my God inexorable." He has bent his bow, the bow that was ordained against the church's prosecutors, that is bent against her sons, v. 12. For He does not afflict willingly, b. 7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). 1. Through the LORDs mercies we are not consumed: This was one of the things Jeremiah remembered. Lamentations 3:21-23. Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. The walling-up of prisoners within confined spaces so that they died very quickly was a form of torture made popular by the Assyrians., iii. i. 2. Pentateuch 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Its New Testament counterpart (1 Corinthians 4:13) is equally rare, depicting the suffering of the apostles. (Harrison), ii. Though He causes grief, To every mourner we may say, on the authority of God, Fear not! These are the words of a satisfied soul. With this should go the complete submission to God pictured in v. 29 by the Oriental obeisance. We have transgressed and rebelled; That is, Thou wilt give it to them freely, and without reserve; intimating that God felt no longer any bowels of compassion for them. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy If you turn to the life of Whitfield our great and mighty Whitfield in more modern times, what was his character? This was the method David took. Of this, death would deprive him; therefore let not a living man complain. If men injure them by force of arms, God does not approve of that. Mine enemies chased me From this to the end of the chapter the prophet speaks of his own personal sufferings, and especially of those which he endured in the dungeon. (Genesis 18:25). a. For the destruction of the daughter of my people. It is just with God to make those who walk in the crooked paths of sin, crossing God's laws, walk in the crooked paths of affliction, crossing their designs and breaking their measures. Great is Your faithfulness. The Lord approved not. In a magnificent expression of faith in the unfailing mercies of God, the writer looks to the distant future with renewed hope. (Harrison), ii. One might conjecture that the following thought in the Toozek i Teemour was borrowed from this: -. These are the two things which our afflictions should put us upon. I am their taunting song. Silence implies both an acceptance of Gods will and a refusal to complain to men. And to those who thus wait and seek God will be gracious; he will show them his marvellous lovingkindness. And to us who profess Christianity it may be added, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as having died for thee; and thou shalt not perish, but have everlasting life. Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that woe and well-being proceed? Jesus gave his cheek to the one who strikes him as He patiently received the suffering His Father had appointed (Matthew 26:67-68, Luke 22:64). Of this, death would deprive him; therefore let not a living man complain. (Clarke), ii. More is implied than is expressed. To give emphasis, Jeremiah asked the same question in different words. And this is an encouragement to them to hope that he would yet further appear for them: "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, and therefore wilt deliver my feet from falling; thou hast pleaded the causes of my life, and therefore wilt plead my other causes.". He was overwhelmed like a man drowning in a pit (the waters flowed over my head). I have become the ridicule of all my people Note, Whatever hard things we suffer, we must never entertain any hard thoughts of God, but must still be ready to own that he is both kind and faithful. One can scarcely read this description without feeling the toothache. (Clarke), iii. What Does Lamentations 3:32 Mean? Give them sorrow of heart They shall have a callous heart, covered with obstinacy, and thy execration. A sad complaint of God's displeasure and the fruits of it, ver 1-20. In three things the prophet and his pious friends had found God good to them:1. God is an inexhaustible fountain of mercy, the Father of mercies. You drew near on the day I called on You: Jeremiah knew that God responded when he called upon Him. Waters of affliction flowed over my head. He appeals to God's knowledge of the matter of fact, how very spiteful and malicious his enemies were (v. 59): "O Lord! And their whispering against me all the day. They did it by despising him (their reproach), with schemes, with whispering lies, and their taunting song against him. He has filled me with bitterness, a bitter sense of his calamities." Minor Prophets The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh; for great pains must be taken with a troubled spirit to bring it into temper. Here is one word of comfort. 4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old. a. What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. a. Because His compassions fail not. And here are two things with which he comforts himself:, I. Pentateuch 3 I am the one who has seen the afflictions. Who could be preserved in the night, if the Watchman of Israel ever slumbered or slept? Lamentations - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org Then let us not complain; for we have other work to do; instead of repining, we must be repenting; and, as an evidence that God is reconciled to us, we must be endeavouring to reconcile ourselves to his holy will. He takes no delight in our pain and misery: yet, like a tender and intelligent parent, he uses the rod; not to gratify himself, but to profit and save us. (Clarke), ii. We must keep silence under the yoke as those that have borne it upon us, not wilfully pulled it upon our own necks, but patiently submitted to it when God laid it upon us. The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. Each of the first four chapters of Lamentations is an acrostic poem. of These are good times for reflection (sit alone) and listening rather than speaking. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point He is not quarrelsome, nor apt to resent injuries; he suffers long and is kind. That, when we are cast down, yet we are not cast off; the father's correcting his son is not a disinheriting of him. 2 10. Let them be dealt with as they have dealt with us; let thy hand be against them as their hand has been against us. 1. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. Major Prophets We dont live constantly focused on our sins and failings, but there are appropriate times to carefully, deliberately search out and examine our ways. That, bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. Jeremiah had no other place of satisfaction, so he was settled with the portion received, and that portion was the LORD Himself. Lamentations 3 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 10:57 (UTC). Hab 1 13, Wherefore lookest thou upon those that deal treacherously? II. That, when God returns to deal graciously with us, it will not be according to our merits, but according to his mercies, according to the multitude, the abundance, of his mercies. (2.) He has aged my flesh and my skin, of Scripture. Note, While trouble is prolonged, and deliverance is deferred, we must patiently wait for God and his gracious returns to us. It is evident that in the preceding verses there is a bitterness of complaint against the bitterness of adversity, that is not becoming to man when under the chastising hand of God; and, while indulging this feeling, all hope fled. Though the covenant seemed to be broken, they owned that it still continued in full force; and, though Jerusalem be in ruins, the truth of the Lord endures for ever. That God's compassions fail not; they do not really fail, no, not even when in anger he seems to have shut up his tender mercies. These complaints we had before, ch. (Lamentations 3:64-66) Giving vengeance to God. We are apt, in times of calamity, to reflect on other people's ways, and blame them; but our duty is to search and try our own ways, that we may turn from evil to God. 2 15, 16. We must set ourselves to answer God's intention in afflicting us, which is to bring sin to our remembrance, and to bring us home to himself, v. 40. All Rights Reserved. Those curses came upon Jerusalem in Jeremiahs day; now he prayed that those curses come upon their enemies. Let us lift our hearts and hands 5. Lamentations 3 NLT - Hope in the LORD's Faithfulness - BibleGateway i. Oh, no: the Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. (Spurgeon), ii. They were surrounded, hedged, and blocked. 31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever: 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. i. 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Or, "Thou hast covered us up as men that are buried are covered up and forgotten." What! He was so low that life seemed ebbing out, and he groaned. (Spurgeon), ii. 28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. Lamentations is the only biblical book which, for the most part, is arranged in acrostic fashion. O LORD, You have seen how I am wronged; Verse 9. You perceive there is not a word concerning himself or his own pleadings. How great soever his affliction may be, he is still alive; therefore, he may seek and find mercy unto eternal life. Instead of Adonai, seventeen MSS., of Kennicott's, and one ancient of my own, have Yehovah. Lamentations 3 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. This I recall to mind, therefore I have hope: For perhaps the first time in the book, hope is allowed. 4. To crush under ones feet i. He never afflicts us but when we give him cause to do it. This St. Paul refers to in his account of the sufferings of the apostles. Their enemies had brought them into the deepest miseries. (Poole). c. LORD, You have seen how I am wronged: Jeremiah rested in the confidence that God was a righteous judge, who would see how he was wronged and who would rightly judge his case. It is possible to interpret this chapter as a record of the feelings of Jeremiah himself, or as a personification in an otherwise unknown individual or the nations tragic sufferings. (Harrison), ii. My soul still remembers Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. Here is, I. There are times when the only thing a sufferer can do is wait for God. He doth not ascribe his deliverance in any measure to any man, much less to his own merit; but it is thou. (Spurgeon). We must pray to him, with a believing expectation to receive mercy from him; for that is implied in our lifting up our hands to him (a gesture commonly used in prayer and sometimes put for it, as Ps 141 2, Let the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice); it signifies our requesting mercy from him and our readiness to receive that mercy. b. None of these makes any material change in the meaning of the words. The passage is full of beauty, as it deals with that tender compassion of God which had never been absent even in the work of punishment. (Morgan). We are living men. I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. But, if we accommodate ourselves to him, though we be chastened of the Lord we shall not be condemned with the world. i. Because God has laid it on him; 5. You have heard my voice: Major Prophets You can copy the order of your preferred Bible translations from the Bibles Tab to the Version Picker (this popup) or vice versa. Persecute and destroy them in anger, as they persecute and destroy us in their anger. Thus Ezekiel saw it, in vision, a valley full of dead and dry bones. 3 He has turned his hand against me. a. They are new every morning Day and night proclaim the mercy and compassion of God. As for Wesley I have heard that on one occasion he said that he had been charged with every crime in the calendar, except drunkenness; and when a woman stood up in the crowd and accused him of that, he then said, Blessed God, I have now had all manner of evil spoken against me falsely, for Christs name sake. (Spurgeon). 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. The Lamentations are the expression of a heart full of love for the earthly people of Jehovah, a people punished for their sins by loosing their kingdom, their land, their city and their sanctuary. "Let them be dealt with according to the threatenings: Thy curse unto them; that is, let thy curse come upon them, all the evils that are pronounced in thy word against the enemies of thy people, v. 65. The Old Testament GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible In a season of great suffering or calamity, it may be difficult to remember that God rules over all things if not directly, then in what He allows. Email / username or password was incorrect! Who could exist throughout the day, if there were not a continual superintending Providence? So arrows that issue from a quiver are here termed the sons of the quiver. (3.) Poetical Books Due thoughts of the evil of sin, and of our own sinfulness, will convince us that it is of the Lord's mercies we are not consumed. it was to no purpose; he remembers, upon all occasions, the affliction and the misery, the wormwood and the gall. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. "Lamentations" was derived from a translation of the title as found in the Latin Vulgate (Vg.) 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. The sovereign God alone can revive it. 1. 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Did ever man paint sorrow like this man? That God turns a deaf ear to his prayers (v. 8): "When I cry and shout, as one in earnest, as one that would make him hear, yet he shuts out my prayer and will not suffer it to have access to him." Verse Lamentations 3:65. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. My strength and my hope have perished from the LORD: No wonder Jeremiah and Jerusalem could say this. He is the Most High, whose authority over them they contemn by abusing their authority over their subjects, not considering that he that is higher than the highest regardeth, Eccl 5 8. Verse 27. He had silenced their fears and quieted their spirits (v. 57): "Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou didst graciously assure me of thy presence with me, and give me to see thee nigh unto me, whereas I had thought thee to be at a distance from me." VI. The Old Testament Verse 15. Wisdom Literature i. Historical Books Pauline Epistles The poets mention of the LORD broke the spell of misery that had bound him. (Ellison). Desolation and destruction. The captives in Babylon had all the miseries of the siege in their mind continually and the flames and ruins of Jerusalem still before their eyes, and wept when they remembered Zion; nay, they could never forget Jerusalem, Ps 137 1, 5. The soft, measured breath, or the laboring, gasping breath. Verse 35. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The sufferings of the people of Judah are described as though one man had experienced them. He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; VII. He has made my chain heavy: As the convict sometimes drags about his chain, and has a ball at his foot, so the prophet felt as if God had clogged him with a heavy chain, so that he could not move because of its terrible weight. (Spurgeon). Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, Because there is room for hope. It was an affliction that was misery itself. I have been so inured to sorrow and servitude that I know not what joy and liberty mean. We have little reason to complain of our trouble, for it is our own doing; we may thank ourselves. And what are all our sorrows, compared with those of the Redeemer? They are new every morning; The above verse is quoted in reference to our Lord's passion, by Matthew 26:62. Note, Those who are truly humbled for sin will be glad to obtain a good hope, through grace, upon any terms, though they put their mouth in the dust for it; and those who would have hope must do so, and ascribe it to free grace if they have any encouragements, which may keep their hearts from sinking into the dust when they put their mouth there. Thou saidst, Fear not. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 2. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (v. 1): I am the man, the remarkable man, that has seen affliction, and has felt it sensibly, by the rod of his wrath. You have moved my soul far from peace; Verse 12. A mother listens for the breathing of her babe in the dark. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? Judah has gone into exile, but she does not find any rest there among the nations. They were against him like a fowler is against a bird. 5. From my sighing, from my cry for help.. Lamentations 4 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible Note, It becomes us, when we are in trouble, to justify God, by owning our sins, and laying the load upon ourselves for them. 2. Call sin a transgression, call it a rebellion, and you do not miscall it. According to the multitude of His mercies. III. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. And pursued us; 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. All the prisoners of the earth By the prisoners of the earth, or land, Dr. Blayney understands those insolvent debtors who were put in prison, and there obliged to work out the debt. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. This is the consequence of their hardening their hearts from thy fear. The Jewish state may now be fitly compared to a man wrinkled with age, for which there is no remedy (v. 4): "My flesh and my skin has he made old; they are wasted and withered, and I look like one that is ready to drop into the grave; nay, he has broken my bones, and so disabled me to help myself, v. 15. Note, It is common for base and ill-natured men to run upon, and run down, those that have fallen into the depths of distress from the height of honour. e. Great is Your faithfulness: All this made Jeremiah consider the great faithfulness of God; that He never fails in sending His mercies and compassions. Keep silent: There came a young man to Demosthenes to learn oratory; he talked away at a great rate, and Demosthenes said, I must charge you double fees. Why? he asked. Note, When we draw nigh to God in a way of duty we may by faith see him drawing nigh to us in a way of mercy. Those who in their haste have chidden with God must, in the reflection, chide themselves for it. To make them easy in it, he tells them that it was good for them to bear the yoke of that captivity, and they would find it so if they would but accommodate themselves to their condition, and labour to answer God's ends in laying that heavy yoke upon them. I see nothing but misery; and I feel, in consequence, nothing but pain. Let him sit alone and keep silent, God will plead thy cause, and redeem thy soul. Verse 57. Shall a man complain? All our enemies 5. Theirs is causeless, and therefore fruitless, it shall not come; but thine is just, and shall take effect. 3. Shall a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Or, it may be rendered, "let him give his cheek.". V. That afflictions are really good for us, and, if we bear them aright, will work very much for our good. He is good to all; his tender mercies are over all his works; all his creatures taste of his goodness. iii. David Guzik :: Study Guide for Lamentations 3 The Lord is my portion Psalms 119:57. 3. Lamentations 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, . Poetical Books We must look up to God as a God in the heavens, infinitely above us, and who has an incontestable dominion over us; for the heavens do rule, and are therefore not to be quarrelled with, but submitted to. Destroy them from under the heavens of the Lord; let them have no benefit of the light and influence of the heavens. To be thrown into a mass or bed of perfect dust, where the eyes are blinded by it, the ears stopped, and the mouth and lungs filled at the very first attempt to respire after having been thrown into it-what a horrible idea of suffocation and drowning! He putteth his mouth in the dust Lives in a state of deep humility. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed Being thus humbled, and seeing himself and his sinfulness in a proper point of view, he finds that God, instead of dealing with him in judgment, has dealt with him in mercy; and that though the affliction was excessive, yet it was less than his iniquity deserved. He does not himself crush under his feet the prisoners of the earth, but he regards the cry of the prisoners; nor does he approve of men's doing it; nay, he is much displeased with it. He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; c. And turn back to the LORD: All the self-examination in the world does little good if it does not lead us back to this place. Lamentations 3 - Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible - Bible That they were satisfied that God's gracious regard to them in their miseries would be an effectual redress of all their grievances. Why, he was accused of every crime that even Sodom knew; and perjury stood up and swore that all was true.
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