“ Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. ”
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...
This mode of speaking was often used by the saints, because God, when it pleased him to look on their miseries, was ever ready to bring them help. Nor were they words without meaning, when the...
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. Thou hast seen - all their imaginations - Every thing is open to the eye of God. Distressed soul! though thou knowest not w...
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. Jeremiah cites God's gracious answers to his prayers, in times past, as an encouragement to his fellow-countrymen t...
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...
All their imaginations... — Same word as the “devices” of Jeremiah 11:19 ; Jeremiah 18:18 , to which the writer obviously refers.
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 seen all their vengeance ,.... The spirit of revenge in them; their wrath and fury, and how they burn with a desire of doing mischief; as well as their revengeful actions, carriage, and be...
Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me. Ver. 60. Thou hast seen all their vengeance. ] See on Lamentations 3:59 . The saints fare the better for their enemies'...
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong Here the prophet adverts to his present sufferings, and the ill usage he met with, concerning which he appeals to God; as if he had said, Thou hast seen that I have...
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. B. C. 588. 55 I called upon thy name, O...
Thou hast been a witness to all their fury and rage, and all their malicious and bloody contrivances against 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. — Lamentations 3:59 . Trials are not things of the past only. Under their continuous pressure endurance is sought for in the truth that the eye and ear of the Lord are ever open...
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
1 Peter 2:23 ; Genesis 31:42 ; Jeremiah 11:19-21 ; Jeremiah 15:10 ; Jeremiah 18:18-23 ; Jeremiah 20:7-10 ; Jeremiah 38:28 ; Psalms 26:1 ; Psalms 35:1 ; Psalms 35:23 ; Psalms 43:1 ; Psalms...
Seen — Thou hast been a witness to all their fury.