“ He hath filled me with bitterness,b he hath made me drunken with wormwood. ”
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...
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (f) wormwood. (f) With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense.
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...
Some render the last word “wormwood,” but this word seems not to me to suit the passage, for though wormwood is bitter, yet it is a wholesome herb. I therefore take it in this and like places f...
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. He hath filled me with bitterness - במרורים bimrorim, with bitternesses, bitter upon bitter. He hath made me drunken with wo...
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...
Bitterness. — The Hebrew gives the plural, bitternesses. With these, the sorrows which are as the bitter herbs of life (the same word meets us in Exodus 12:8 , and Numbers 9:11 ), the mourner h...
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 filled me with bitterness ,.... Or "with bitternesses" m; instead of food, bitter herbs; the allusion perhaps is to the bitter herbs eaten at the passover, and signify bitter afflictions, so...
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. Ver. 15. He hath filled me with bitterness. ] Heb., Bitternesses: a alluding, as some think, to that ius seu embamma in...
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...
That is, he hath filled me with severe and bitter dispensations. Wormwood is a bitter herb, but it is also a wholesome herb, and therefore some think that the Hebrew word should rather be translate...
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
Isaiah 51:17-22 ; Jeremiah 23:15 ; Jeremiah 25:15-18 ; Jeremiah 25:27 ; Jeremiah 9:15 ; Job 9:18 ; Lamentations 3:19 ; Psalms 60:3 ; Ruth 1:20
Wormwood — With severe and bitter dispensations.