“ He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. ”
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...
The letters of the alphabet are tripled in this chapter, which I had omitted to mention. In the first two chapters each verse begins with the successive letters of the alphabet, except that in...
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. He hath - brought me into darkness - In the sacred writings, darkness is often taken for calamity, light, for prosperity.
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. I am the man that hath seen affliction - Jeremiah's own affliction in the dungeon of Malchiah ( Jeremiah 38:6 ): that of his...
I am the man ] The author is a representative sufferer, an eye-witness, and typical of Christ.
Into darkness. — The moral darkness of perplexity as well as misery. The cry of the mourner was like that of Ajax (Hom. Il. xvii. 647), “Slay me if thou wilt, but slay me in the light.”
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 led me, and brought [me into] darkness ,.... Which oftentimes signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or another: thus the Jews were brought into the darkness of captivity;...
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light. Ver. 2. He hath led me and brought me into darkness. ] Perstat semper in metaphora a pastoritia, say some, who by rod in the...
I am the man that hath seen affliction I myself have suffered affliction in this time of public calamity. He speaks, probably, with a particular regard to the ill treatment he had met with in the d...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
Darkness in Scripture (metaphorically taken) signifies ignorance, sin, and misery ; and light signifies knowledge , a state of grace, or a state of mirth and jollity; they are both here taken 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. — (א) Lamentations 3:1 . The author writes as if his own person was the object on which all the troubles had been inflicted. I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod o...
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
Amos 5:18-20 ; Deuteronomy 28:29 ; Isaiah 59:9 ; Jeremiah 13:16 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 30:26 ; Jude 1:13 ; Jude 1:6 ; Lamentations 2:1 ; Lamentations 3:53-55