“ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. ”
The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them. Lamentations 3:40 And turn again to the Lord - Or, “and return to Yahweh.” The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way...
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 now shews more clearly what the reproof meant which we shortly explained yesterday: he said that men act absurdly while they weary themselves in their sins; he now adds that they wo...
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. Let us search - How are we to get the pardon of our sins? The prophet tells us: 1. Let us examine ourselves. 2. "Let us turn again to the...
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. Let us - Jeremiah and his fellow-countrymen in their calamity. Search - as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on the...
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...
Let us search... — Warnings against murmurs are followed by counsels which point to a more excellent way. Suffering calls a man to self-scrutiny. We should seek to know the sins which it is meant t...
THE RETURN Lamentations 3:40-42 WHEN prophets, speaking in the name of God, promised the exiles a restoration to their land and the homes of their fathers, it was always understood and often ex...
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....
THROUGH REPENTANCE TO FAITH Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our w...
Let us search and try our ways ,.... stead of murmuring and complaining, let us search for something that may support and comfort, teach and instruct, under afflictive providences; let us search int...
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. Ver. 40. Let us search and try our ways, ] i.e., Make accurate inquiry into them; so shall we soon find ourselves to be a whole newly...
Let us search and try our ways This will be a more reasonable and profitable employment than that of complaining and murmuring against the providence of God. Let us search what our ways have been,...
The Duties of the Afflicted. B. C. 588. 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to...
Seeing God doth not grieve us willingly, nor delight to crush us, though we be his prisoners, and seeing the hand of God is in these things upon us, and that justly, to recompense our iniquities into...
The People Are Called On To Seek YHWH, And They Face Up To The Situation That They Are In Whilst The Prophet Himself Continues To Plead For Them ( Lamentations 3:40-51 ). The prophet now calls on...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (נ) Lamentations 3:40 . The remnant, who were referred to in Lamentations 3:22 , carry out here the suggestion just made, that sighing, not over sufferings but over sins, is...
Lamentations 3:40 The prophet calls his countrymen to a work to which they needed to be exhorted and pressed; and well he might do so, for the work of self-examination is not at all an agreeable w...
We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition.» Well then, be thankful that you are not, and whi...
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...
Let us search and try our ways, in true contrition, to find the reason for God's displeasure, and turn again to the Lord, returning all the way, in sincere repentance.
2 Kings 3:13 ; 2 Kings 6:32 ; 2 Samuel 6:7 ; 2 Samuel 6:8 ; Ezra 9:13 ; Genesis 4:13 ; Genesis 4:14 ; Genesis 4:5-7 ; Hebrews 12:5-12 ; Isaiah 38:17-19 ; Isaiah 51:20 ; Job 11:6 ; Jonah...