“ And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: ”
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...
And I said, My strength and my (g) hope hath perished from the LORD: (g) Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the...
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...
strength . strength (for endurance). Hebrew. nezah. See notes on Isaiah 40:9 ; Isaiah 40:10 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; Isaiah 40:29 ; Isaiah 40:31 .
This verse shews what I have before reminded you of, that the Prophet does not here speak as though he was divested of every sin, and prescribed a perfect rule for prayer. But, on the contrary,...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: And my hope - That first, that last support of the miserable - it is gone! it is perished! The sovereign God alone can revive it.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. He hath ... broken my teeth with gravel - referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, 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...
I said, My strength. — The sorrow of the mourner comes to the very verge of despair. There was “no help for him from his God;” even that hope had left him. But, as the sequel shows, this despair wa...
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...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This...
And I said, my strength and my hope are perished from the Lord. The former of these words signifies, according to Aben Ezra, "my standing", my subsistence, my continuance in being, or my perpetuity...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Ver. 18. And I said. ] But not so wisely. I was even almost tumbling into the pit of desperation. I was straddling over it, as it wer...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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 3:18 . This reads like an account of the climax to the trials undergone. I said, as if talking to myself, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jeho...
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 Samuel 27:1 ; Ezekiel 37:11 ; Job 17:15 ; Job 6:11 ; Psalms 116:11 ; Psalms 31:22