“ He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. ”
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 putteth his (o) mouth in the dust; if there may be hope. (o) He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waits for comfort.
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...
He. See note on Lamentations 1:12 .
He continues the same subject; for he describes to us men so subdued to obedience that they are ready to bear whatever God may lay on them. He then says that the sitting and the silence of whic...
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 putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. He putteth his mouth in the dust - Lives in a state of deep humility. If so be there may be hope - Because there is room for hope.
He putteth his mouth in the dust— "He prostrates himself even to the ground in token of the deepest humiliation." See Isaiah 29:4 . 1 Corinthians 14:25 .
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 putteth his mouth in the dust... — The outward image is that of the prostration of an Eastern subject before a king: his very face laid in the dust, so that he cannot speak.
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 putteth his mouth in the dust ,.... Of self-abhorrence; sensible of his own vileness and nothingness, his unworthiness, and the unprofitableness of all his duties; ascribing the whole of his salv...
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. Ver. 29. He putteth his mouth in the dust. ] He lieth low at God's feet: putting himself into the hands of justice, yet in hope of mer...
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. ...
OLBHeb; If that may be supplied, or when , (as Pagnine translateth yb Lamentations 3:28 , the connexion of these words with the former is very fair and easy, for then those words, Lamentatio...
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
2 Chronicles 33:12 ; Ezekiel 16:63 ; Job 40:4 ; Job 42:5 ; Job 42:6 ; Joel 2:14 ; Jonah 3:9 ; Luke 15:18 ; Luke 15:19 ; Luke 18:13 ; Romans 3:19 ; Zephaniah 2:3
In the dust — Both this and the former verses let us know the duty of persons under afflictions.