“ We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. ”
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...
transgressed . revolted. Hebrew. p asha ' . App-44. Compare Lamentations 1:22 .
The faithful do not here expostulate with God, but on the contrary acknowledge that God’s severity was just. That God then had dealt with them severely, they ascribe to their own sins, This is...
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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...
We have transgressed... — The verses that follow ( Lamentations 3 ;42-47) give the prayer which answers to the call of Lamentations 3:41 . Both pronouns are emphatic: The suppliant has sinned and...
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....
We have transgressed, and have rebelled ,.... Here begins the prayer, the sense of which is directed to, though the words are not dictated; and it begins with confession of sin, as prayer should, es...
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. Ver. 42. We have transgressed and have rebelled. ] We have committed evil and omitted good, and failed in the manner, and are theref...
We have transgressed , &c. Here the prophet shows what will be the effect of a proper searching and trying of our ways; we shall be convinced of our sinfulness and guilt: and he here teaches us...
Complaining to God. B. C. 588. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast no...
The prophet doth not dictate words, but sense to them, teaching them the matter of their prayer; first, by way of confession. Sin is called a transgression , because it is going aside from the way 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...
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 Thessalonians 2:8 ; Psalms 141:2 ; Psalms 143:6-8 ; Psalms 25:1 ; Psalms 28:2 ; Psalms 63:4 ; Psalms 86:4
Thou — Thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our sins.