“ The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. ”
The Lord is my portion - “ My portion is Yahweh,” see Numbers 18:20 ; Psalms 16:5 ff. Therefore will I hope in him - A more full expression of the confidence present in the prophet’s mind i...
The LORD [is] my (l) portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. (l) The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as ( Psalms 16:5 ).
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 Prophet intimates in this verse that we cannot stand firm in adversities, except we be content with God alone and his favor; for as soon as we depart from him, any adversity that may happen...
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is my portion - See on Psalms 119:67 (note).
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. х It is of the Lord's mercies ... we are not consumed ] - ( Malachi 3:6 , "I am the Lord, I change not;...
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...
The Lord. — An inversion of the sentence gives a closer and more emphatic rendering: My portion is Jehovah. The phrase is a reminiscence from Psalms 16:5 ; Psalms 73:26 ; Psalms 142:5 ; Psalm...
THE UNFAILING GOODNESS OF GOD Lamentations 3:22-24 ALTHOUGH the elegist has prepared us for brighter scenes by the more hopeful tone of an intermediate triplet, the transition from the gloom an...
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...
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him....
THE BEST PORTION ‘The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.’ Lamentations 3:24 I. The Lord is the portion of His people. (1) The object of their supreme love. (2) The object of their entire...
The Lord [is] my portion, saith my soul ,.... The prophet, or the church, whom he represents, rises and increases in the exercise of faith; from considering the mercies, compassions, and faithfulnes...
The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Ver. 24. The Lord is my portion. ] And that is enough for me, should I never have more. See Trapp on " Psa 16:5 " That wh...
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul An interest in the favour and love of God, and his presence with me, my heart tells me, is the best inheritance. And, possessing these, I have that which is su...
Words of Comfort to Israel; The Benefit of Afflictions; Comfort to the Afflicted. B. C. 588. ...
God is the portion of his people, and they have chosen him as their portion; he hath declared himself to them as such, and they have accepted him as such. This gives them ground both for patience und...
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. — (ח) Lamentations 3:22 . The hopefulness which had begun to lift a desponding soul points to the ground on which it may become secure. Its hazy outlook is seeming to clear, and...
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
1 Chronicles 5:20 ; 1 Peter 1:21 ; 1 Samuel 30:6 ; Jeremiah 10:16 ; Jeremiah 51:19 ; Job 13:15 ; Lamentations 3:21 ; Psalms 119:57 ; Psalms 130:7 ; Psalms 142:5 ; Psalms 16:5 ; Psalms 31:...