“ Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. ”
Is he turned; he turneth - Or, “surely against me” hath he turned “his hand” again and again “all the day long.”
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...
Now he says that God was an adversary to him; for this is what the verb ישב, isheb, means, he is turned against me. As an enemy, when intending to fight, comes to meet one from the opposi...
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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.
Against me is he turned. — Better, against me He turneth His hand again and again, the first verb being one of frequentative action, and giving that significance to the second.
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...
Surely against me is he turned ,.... As an enemy, who used to be a friend; he has so altered and changed the course of his providence, as if his favour and affections were wholly removed; he has pla...
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day. Ver. 3. Surely against me is he turned. ] Metaphora a colaphizantibus. A metaphor from buffeters, who double their b...
Surely against me is he turned The course of his providence toward me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now exercises an afflicting hand against me, and that not occasionally...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
The course of God's providence toward me is quite altered, his hand, that is, his power, which was wont to be with me, and for me, against my enemies, is now turned against me; nor is it for a moment...
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
Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Isaiah 1:25 ; Isaiah 63:10 ; Job 31:21 ; Lamentations 2:4-7