Lamentations 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. ”

Lamentations 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

In this verse also the Prophet shews how grievously the faithful are disturbed when they feel that God is adverse to them. But he uses the same figure as yesterday, though the word סורר, sur...
Lamentations 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He hath turned aside. — The terror caused by the lion turns the traveller from his path, and there is no other; and then comes the attack by which he is torn in pieces. He hath made me desolate....
Lamentations 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He hath turned aside my ways ,.... Or caused me to depart or go back from the way I was in, and so fall into the hand of the enemy that lay in wait, as before. Jarchi interprets the word of thorns,...
Lamentations 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. Ver. 11. He hath turned aside my ways. ] As Lamentations 3:9 . And pulled me in pieces. ] As a bear or lion do...
Lamentations 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
Lamentations 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The same thing is repeated in other phrases which was before said, viz. that God had pleased by his providence to frustrate all the designs and counsels of the Jews, and miserably to destroy them, as...
Lamentations 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Lamentations 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Lamentations 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 2:40-44 ; Daniel 7:23 ; Hosea 6:1 ; Isaiah 3:26 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ; Jeremiah 32:43 ; Jeremiah 5:6 ; Jeremiah 51:20-22 ; Jeremiah 6:8 ; Jeremiah 9:10 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ; Job 16:12 ; Jo...

Lamentations 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 3:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Lamentations 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge