“ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. ”
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...
Let us lift up (u) our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens. (u) That is, both hearts and hands: for else to lift up the hands is but hypocrisy.
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...
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. the heavens. Supply the Ellipsis thus: "the heavens [saying], We have", &c.
To conversion he joins prayer; for we cannot be reconciled to God except he buries our sins; nor can repentance and faith be separated. Moreover, to taste of God’s mercy opens to us the door of...
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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...
With our hands. — Literally, to our hands. There is, as it were, a psychological analysis of prayer. Men can by an act of will, lift up the heart as the centre of affection: this, in its turn, pr...
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....
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands ,.... Lifting up of the hands is a prayer gesture, and is put for prayer itself; see Psalms 141:2 ; but the heart must go along with it, or it is of no av...
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens. Ver. 41. Let us llft up our hearts with our hands. ] Holy hearts, pure hands. Instead of wrangling with God, as Lam 3:39 let...
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...
Let us apply ourselves unto God by prayer, often expressed under this notion in Scripture from that gesture ordinarily used in prayer; and let us not do it in hypocrisy, but joining our hearts with o...
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 3:41 There are two things which often divert men from appealing to God. First, their own efforts on behalf of themselves; and secondly, the appeal to their fellows. But this appeal to...
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...
Confession of Sin and Complaint over the Cruelty of the Enemies
1 Chronicles 15:12 ; 1 Chronicles 15:13 ; 1 Corinthians 11:28 ; 1 Corinthians 11:31 ; 2 Chronicles 30:6 ; 2 Chronicles 30:9 ; 2 Corinthians 13:5 ; Acts 26:20 ; Deuteronomy 4:30 ; Ezekiel 18...