“ He hath caused the arrowsa of his quiver to enter into my reins. ”
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. 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...
arrows . sons. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. As "sparks" are called "sons of the flame".
He goes on with the same metaphor; he said in the last verse that God had leveled his bow; he now adds, that his arrows had penetrated into his reins, that is, into his inward parts. But we mus...
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. The arrows of his quiver - בני אשפתו beney ashpatho, "The sons of his quiver." The issue or effect; the subject, adjunct, or accident,...
The arrows of his quiver— The sons of his quiver. Houbigant. It is usual in the Hebrew to call the subject, adjunct, accident, effect, &c. the son of that particular thing. Hence it is that...
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...
The arrows of his quiver. — Literally, children. The other side of the analogy appears in Psalms 127:5 .
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 hath caused the arrows of his quiver ,.... Or, "the sons of his quiver" i; an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression,...
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. Ver. 13. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ] a Heb., The sons of his quiver, by a Hebraism. So Horac...
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 made his judgments to pierce the most inward parts of the nation; or, he hath mortally wounded me. In the Hebrew it is, the daughters of his quiver, a way of speaking very usual i...
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
Deuteronomy 32:23 ; Job 41:28 ; Job 6:4