“ Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. ”
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...
Here the Prophet tells us that he had experienced the goodness of God, because he had not suffered a repulse when he prayed. And this doctrine is especially useful to us, that is, to call to mi...
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 drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. Fear not - How powerful is this word when spoken by the Spirit of the Lord to a disconsolate heart. To every mourner we...
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...
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 drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee ,.... When persons draw nigh to God in a way of duty, and particularly in this of prayer, and calling on his name; he draws nigh to them in a w...
Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. Ver. 57. Thou drawest near. ] This thou hast done, and this I hope thou yet wilt do. Experience breedeth confidence.
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...
There was a time when I was in distress, and called upon time, and thou didst draw near unto me. God is never far off from any of us, as to his essential presence; nor is it possible that he should,...
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 33:13 ; 2 Chronicles 33:19 ; Isaiah 38:5 ; Job 34:28 ; Psalms 116:1 ; Psalms 116:2 ; Psalms 3:4 ; Psalms 34:6 ; Psalms 55:1 ; Psalms 6:8 ; Psalms 6:9 ; Psalms 66:19 ; Psalms...