“ I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. ”
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...
derision. Compare Jeremiah 20:8 . all my People. . special various reading called Sevir (App-34), with some codices, and Syriac, read "all peoples". song . mocking-song. Compare Lamentation...
The Prophet again complains of the reproaches to which God had exposed the Jews. We have said that of all evils the most grievous is reproach, and experience teaches us that sorrow is greatly e...
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. Arrows - literally, sons of His quiver (cf. Job 6:4 , "The arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh u...
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...
I was a derision. — The personal experience of the prophet breaks through the succession of imagery. The arrows that pierced to the quick were the taunts of the mockers who derided him ( Jeremiah 2...
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...
I was a derision to all my people ,.... So Jeremiah was to the people of the Jews, and especially to his townsmen, the men of Anathoth, Jeremiah 20:7 ; but if he represents the body of the people,...
I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day. Ver. 14. I was a derision, to all my people. ] Or, To all peoples. Our Saviour suffered all this and much more for us. And the...
I was a derision to all my people To all the wicked among them, who made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public judgments; and their song all the day Hebrew, נגינתם, their inst...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
OLBHeb; Though some think the prophet speaks this of himself, yet, considering he hath all along spoken in the name of the people, it is not probable, which makes a difficulty, how the people could...
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. — Lamentations 3:14 . The figure is hardly changed. Perhaps a laughing-stock to all my people, their song all the day, may be regarded as the shaft which went to the quick. Je...
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
1 Corinthians 4:9-13 ; Jeremiah 20:7 ; Jeremiah 48:27 ; Job 30:1-9 ; Lamentations 3:63 ; Matthew 27:39-44 ; Nehemiah 4:2-4 ; Psalms 123:3 ; Psalms 123:4 ; Psalms 137:3 ; Psalms 22:6 ; Psa...