“ He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. ”
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...
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...
giveth his cheek. Compare Isaiah 50:6 .
Here he mentions another fruit of patience, that the faithful, even when injuries are done to them by the wicked, would yet be calm and resigned. For there are many who submit to God when they...
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth - He has that love that is not provoked. He is not quarrelsome, nor apt to rese...
He giveth his cheek, &c.— He not only humbles himself in the sight of his Maker, but also bears with patience the ill-treatment of men. See Matthew 26:62 . Mark 14:65 .
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 giveth his cheek... — The submission enjoined reaches its highest point — a patience like that of Job 16:10 ; we may add, like that of the Sermon on the Mount ( Matthew 5:39 .) It was harder to...
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 giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him ,.... Either to God that afflicts him, and patiently bears it; see Isaiah 9:13 ; or rather to men. To be smitten on the cheek is always reckoned a very...
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. Ver. 30. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him. ] Humility, the product of affliction sanctified, is still at...
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. ...
According to our Saviour's precept, Matthew 5:39 , he doth not take any private revenge; he is reproached and reviled, but when he is so he revileth not again , 1 Peter 2:23 ; he is filled wit...
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 Corinthians 11:20 ; Isaiah 50:6 ; Job 16:10 ; Luke 6:29 ; Micah 5:1 ; Matthew 26:67 ; Matthew 5:39 ; Psalms 123:3 ; Psalms 69:20 ; Psalms 69:9