“ He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. ”
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 m...
(e) He [was] to me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places. (e) He has no pity on me.
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...
as. lion. See note on Psalms 22:16 .
Harsh is the complaint when Jeremiah compares God to a. bear and a lion. But we have said that the apprehension of God’s wrath so terrified the faithful, that they could not sufficiently expres...
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion ( Job 10:16 ; thus fulfilling the threat, "I will be unto them as...
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...
As a bear... as a lion. — The figure found in Hosea 13:8 ; Amos 5:19 , is specially characteristic of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 4:7 ; Jeremiah 5:6 ; Jeremiah 49:19 ; Jeremiah 50:44 ). We are reminde...
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. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all th...
He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait ,.... For its prey, which seizes on it at once, and tears it in pieces; such were the Chaldeans to the Jews by divine permission: [and as] a lion in secr...
He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places. Ver. 10. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait. ] So that if I do but offer to stir, or seek to make escape, I am in...
He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone He hath not only hedged it up with thorns, Hosea 2:6 , but stopped it up with a stone wall which cannot be broken through; so that my paths are made cr...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
That is, he hath taken all advantages against me to destroy me.
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. — (ד) Lamentations 3:10 . Difficulties had been embarrassing, but dangers were also added. In the crooked paths the bear and the lion lurked, and he is there, like them, lyin...
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...
A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Amos 5:18-20 ; Hosea 13:7 ; Hosea 13:8 ; Hosea 5:14 ; Hosea 6:1 ; Isaiah 38:13 ; Job 10:16 ; Psalms 10:9 ; Psalms 17:12