“ Rememberinge mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ”
Remembering - Or, as in the margin. It is a prayer to Yahweh. My misery - Or, “my” homelessness ( Lamentations 1:7 note).
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...
Remembering . Remember.
The verb may be considered as an imperative; it is an infinitive mood, but it is often taken in Hebrew as an imperative. Thus, many deem it a prayer, Remember my affliction and my trouble, th...
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ( Jeremiah 9:15 .) Remembering mine affliction ... This gives the reason why he gave way to the temptation to despair i...
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...
Remembering. — The verb, which is rendered by the Authorised version as a gerundial infinitive, is better taken as an imperative, Remember mine affliction; the prayer being addressed to Jehovah....
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...
SHADOW AND SUNSHINE ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’ Lamentations 3:19 ; Lamentations 3:22 I. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people ( Lamentations 3:1-...
Remembering mine affliction and my misery ,.... The miserable affliction of him and his people; the remembrance of which, and poring upon it continually, caused the despondency before expressed: tho...
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Ver. 19. Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall, ] i.e., The bitterness that was in it, but o...
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...
If, according to our translation, we read Remembering, or While I remember , these two verses contain but one sentence; in tire former part the prophet in the name of this people expresseth their...
The Prophet Prays His Way Through To Confidence In YHWH ( Lamentations 3:19-39 ). When our souls have reached their lowest point there is only one thing to do, and that is to cast ourselves on God...
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...
Remembering, or, "Remember," mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall, the sufferings about which he has just complained so bitterly.
Jeremiah 9:15 ; Job 7:7 ; Lamentations 3:15 ; Lamentations 3:5 ; Nehemiah 9:32 ; Psalms 132:1 ; Psalms 89:47 ; Psalms 89:50
Wormwood — Wormwood and gall, are often made use of to signify great affliction.