“ Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. ”
Or, “They who without cause are mine enemies have hunted me sore like a bird.” Probably the prophet is speaking of his personal sorrows.
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...
We shall see to the end of the chapter the various complaints, by which the Prophet deplored the miseries of his own nation, that he might at length obtain the mercy of God. He takes here the c...
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Mine enemies chased me - From this to the end of the chapter the prophet speaks of his own personal sufferings, and especially of those which...
Mine enemies chased me— The prophet in this and the following verses describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him, and cast him into the dungeon. See Jeremiah 20:7 ; Jeremiah 37:15 ....
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird - which is destitute of counsel and strength. The allusion seems to be to Proverbs 1:17 (Ca...
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...
Without cause... — The words connect themselves in the Hebrew with “mine enemies” (comp. Psalms 35:7 ; Psalms 35:19 ; Psalms 69:4 ), and it has been inferred from this that Jeremiah speaks not o...
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43-54 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of i...
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....
Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird ,.... That is weak and helpless, fearful and timorous; that flees from place to place when pursued; so it was with the prophet, or rather with the people of t...
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Ver. 52. Mine enemies chased me sore. ] In a most eager and extreme manner, with utmost cruelty and craft. As a bird. ] Beaten from bush...
Mine enemies chased me sore “The prophet in this, and the following verses, describes his own sufferings, when his enemies seized him and put him into the dungeon, Jeremiah 37:16 ; Jeremiah 38:6...
Complaining to God. B. C. 588. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast no...
As boys beat a bird from bush to bush, suffering it to rest no where, so mine enemies, to whom I gave no cause, pursued me.
The Prophet Looks Back On His Own Experiences And Calls On YHWH To Avenge Him ( Lamentations 3:52-66 ). The chapter commenced with the personal experience of the prophet in Lamentations 3:1-18 b...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (צ) Lamentations 3:52 . They have hunted me down like a bird is hunted when pursued with the eagerness of those who are my enemies without cause, and who will not relax ef...
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 Samuel 30:3 ; 1 Samuel 30:4 ; Genesis 44:34 ; Jeremiah 11:22 ; Jeremiah 14:16 ; Jeremiah 14:18 ; Jeremiah 19:9 ; Jeremiah 4:19-21 ; Lamentations 1:18 ; Lamentations 2:21 ; Lamentations 5...