“ He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. ”
Translate: Let him sit alone and keep silence; For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him. Let him place his mouth in the dust; Perchance there is hope. Let him offer his cheek to him...
He sitteth alone (n) and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. (n) He murmurs not against God, but is patient.
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...
Here he shews the fruit of teachableness; for when God deals severely with his children, they yet do not rebel, but even then they willingly submit to his authority. For whence comes it that so...
DISCOURSE: 1093 THE BENEFIT OF EARLY AFFLICTIONS Lamentations 3:27-29 . It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it u...
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He sitteth alone - He has learned that necessary lesson of independence, that shows him how he is to serve himself; to give...
Because he hath borne it upon him— When he shall take up his yoke. Houbigant.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He ... keepeth silence - the fruit of true docility and patience. He does not fight against the yoke, "as a bullock un...
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...
He sitteth alone... — Better, Let him sit alone, and keep silence when He (Jehovah) hath laid it (the yoke) upon him; and so in the next verses, Let him put his mouth... Let him give his che...
QUIET WAITING Lamentations 3:25-36 HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy. Pursuing the ideas that flow out of the great truth of the endless goodness of God, and...
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....
He sitteth alone ,.... Retires from the world, and the men of it, who takes upon him the yoke of Christ; though he is not alone, but God, Father, Son, and Spirit, are with him; and he is with the sa...
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. Ver. 28. He sitteth alone. ] Sessio solitaria, as being much in meditation, according to that counsel of the preacher...
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth That he be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedienc...
Words of Comfort to Israel; The Benefit of Afflictions; Comfort to the Afflicted. B. C. 588. ...
Our English Annotations supplying that , makes the connexion clear, It is good for a man that he sit alone , Jeremiah 15:17 ; not doing what he doth to be seen of men, but sitting alone, and whe...
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. — (י) Lamentations 3:28 . A yoke is not of itself beneficial; it must be borne along with desires and efforts to reach to its purpose. “Since it is good for man that he should l...
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
Jeremiah 15:17 ; Lamentations 2:10 ; Psalms 102:7 ; Psalms 39:9
Borne it — That he keep his soul in subjection to God, because God hath humbled him by his rod.