“ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ”
That hath seen affliction - i. e. hath experienced, suffered it.
I [am] the man [that] hath seen (a) affliction by the rod of his wrath. (a) The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he decl...
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 Lam...
This chapter contains twenty-two verses: each verse having three lines: each line beginning with the same letter: and so, onward to the end of the alphabet. I am the man. The prophet is representa...
The word, עברה obere, properly means assault, passing over limits; but what is peculiar to man is often in Scripture ascribed to God. Here also he changes the person, for he spoke before of...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. I am the man that hath seen affliction - Either the prophet speaks here of himself, or he is personating his miserable countrymen....
I am the man that hath seen affliction— The prophet here speaks partly in his own character, and partly in that of his countrymen and fellow-sufferers; and throughout the whole in such a manner as...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Lamentations 3:1-66 (AN ELEGY) Lamentations 3:1-66 .-Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions as an example how...
I am the man ] The author is a representative sufferer, an eye-witness, and typical of Christ.
I am the man. — The lamentation is one of more intense personality. For that very reason it has been the true inheritance of all mourners, however widely different in time, country, circumstance, w...
THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1-21 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...
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, r...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. The same subject of lamentation runs through the whole of this Chapter.
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction ,.... Had a much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached and ill used by his own people, and suffering with them in...
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Ver. 1. I am the man. ] Here Jeremiah, in the name and place of all the Jewish people, setteth forth his sufferings very passion...
I am the man that hath seen affliction I myself have suffered affliction in this time of public calamity. He speaks, probably, with a particular regard to the ill treatment he had met with in the d...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 3 The faithful bewail their misery and contempt, Lamentations 3:1-21 . They nourish their hope by consideration of the justice, providence, and mercies of God, Lamentation...
In His Initial Despair The Prophet Bewails His Own Sad Condition ( Lamentations 3:1-18 ). In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of His Name being in Lamentations 3:18...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (א) Lamentations 3:1 . The author writes as if his own person was the object on which all the troubles had been inflicted. I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod o...
The literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the line arranged in couplets or triplet, each of which begins with a letter of the Hebrew al...
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...
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 hemistich...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION ; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath, so Jeremiah writes in setting forth his own experiences as characteristic of the misery which is often the lot of God's children in the...
Isaiah 53:3 ; Jeremiah 15:17 ; Jeremiah 15:18 ; Jeremiah 20:14-18 ; Jeremiah 38:6 ; Job 19:21 ; Lamentations 1:12-14 ; Psalms 71:20 ; Psalms 88:15 ; Psalms 88:16 ; Psalms 88:7
I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman.