“ Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. ”
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lamentations 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “ The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6 . Some consider that Psalms 69 was composed by Jer...
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...
at my breathing. See note on Malachi 3:16 . at my cry. Some codices, with Vulgate, read "and at my cry" (or outcry).
When the Prophet says that God heard, it is the same as though he said, that he had so prayed that God became a witness of his earnestness and solicitude; for many boast in high terms of the...
DISCOURSE: 1095 THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER Lamentations 3:54-57 . Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my...
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Hide not thine ear at my breathing - He dared not even to complain, nor to cry, nor to pray aloud: he was obliged to whisper h...
My breathing— My groaning, or sighing.
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. I called upon thy name ... out of the low dungeon. Thus the spirit resists the flesh, and faith spurns the temptation (Calvin; Psalms...
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...
Thou hast heard... hide not thine... — There is something eminently suggestive in the sequence of the two clauses. The recollection that prayer was answered in the past, prompts its utterance in th...
DE PROFUNDIS Lamentations 3:55-66 As this third elegy-the richest and the most elaborate of the five that constitute the Book of Lamentations-draws to a close it retains its curious characte...
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....
Thou hast heard my voice ,.... Either in times past, when he cried unto him, and was delivered; and this was an encouragement to call upon him again in such extremity, who had shown himself to be a...
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Ver. 56. Thou hast heard my voice. ] Seem a man's case never so desperate, if he can but find a praying heart, God will fin...
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...
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. B. C. 588. 55 I called upon thy name, O...
I in former great afflictions applied myself unto thee, and thou didst hear me; show me now the same favour. Our former experiences of God's goodness to us in hearing our prayers ought to hold up our...
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...
Prayer for Deliverance
2 Chronicles 33:11 ; 2 Chronicles 33:12 ; Acts 16:24-28 ; Jeremiah 38:6 ; Jonah 2:2-4 ; Psalms 116:3 ; Psalms 116:4 ; Psalms 130:1 ; Psalms 130:2 ; Psalms 142:3-7 ; Psalms 18:5 ; Psalms 1...
Heard — In former afflictions. Hide not — Shew me now the same favour.