“ He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. ”
Or, “He hath” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i. e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”
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...
set me . made me to dwell. as they, &c. . like the age-long dead.
Here he amplifies what he had before said of poison and trouble; he says that he was placed in darkness, not that he might be there for a little while, but remain there for a long time; he hath...
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. My flesh and my skin hath he made old - ( Job 16:8 , "Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my...
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...
He hath set me in dark places. — A verbal reproduction of Psalms 143:3 . The “dark places” are those of hell or Hades. For dead of old read dead eternally or dead for ever, the adverb lookin...
THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1-21 WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as...
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...
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all th...
He hath set me in dark places ,.... In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dar...
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old. Ver. 6. He hath set me in dark places. ] Dungeons haply, which are a kind of graves, and where poor prisoners lie as forgotten. The Pe...
Surely against me is he turned The course of his providence toward me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now exercises an afflicting hand against me, and that not occasionally...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
The prophet compareth their state in Babylon to the state of bodies in the graves, or in some charnel-house, which are places of darkness, full of rottenness and dead men's bones. Such was the state...
In His Initial Despair The Prophet Bewails His Own Sad Condition ( Lamentations 3:1-18 ). In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of His Name being in Lamentations 3:18...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ב) Lamentations 3:4 . Details as to how the writer suffered. My flesh and my skin he has worn out, he has broken my bones. Bodily exhaustion and racking pains consume the v...
I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read...
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...
A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Psalms 143:3 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 88:5 ; Psalms 88:6