“ My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbledf in me. ”
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled (h) in me. (h) He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.
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...
My soul. The primitive reading was "Thy soul", which the Sopherim have recorded, and state that they altered it to "My soul" (see App-33), considering it an offensive anthropomorphism. By so do...
The Prophet seems in other words to confirm what he had said, even that the memory of afflictions overwhelmed his soul. For the soul is said to be humbled in or upon man, when he lies down unde...
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. By soul - is humbled in me - It is evident that in the preceding verses there is a bitterness of complaint against the bitterness of ad...
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...
My soul hath... — The verb, as in Lamentations 3:17 , may be either in the second person or the third; the former gives, Thou wilt surely remember that my soul is humbled. Psalms 42:4 supports...
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...
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance ,.... That is, according to our version, affliction and misery, compared to wormwood and gall: but the words, "my soul", are fetched from the next clause, wh...
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. Ver. 20. My soul hath them still in remembrance. ] But it is not good to plod overly much in this case. Such bitter pills should be...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
That is, I cannot forget them, and the thoughts of them sink my spirits.
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...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed
Job 21:6 ; Psalms 146:8 ; Psalms 42:11 ; Psalms 42:5 ; Psalms 42:6 ; Psalms 43:5