“ Give them sorrowm of heart, thy curse unto them. ”
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...
Give them sorrow of heart . Thou wilt suffer them. veiling (or obstinacy) of heart. See Isaiah 6:9 ; Isaiah 6:10 . sorrow . covering, or veiling.
He expresses what the vengeance was to be, even that God would give them up to a reprobate mind; for by מגנת-לב, meganet-leb, he no doubt meant the blindness of the heart, and at the same t...
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Give them sorrow of heart - They shall have a callous heart, covered with obstinacy, and thy execration. The former is their state, the latter their fa...
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Render unto them a recompence - ( Jeremiah 11:20 ; 2 Timothy 4:14 , "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil;...
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...
Sorrow of heart — Literally, covering, with a sense like that of the “veil upon the heart” of 2 Corinthians 3:15 , and so signifying the blindness of obstinacy. The imperatives in both Lamentat...
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....
Give them sorrow of heart ,.... That which will cause sorrow of heart; such judgments and punishments as will be grievous to them. Some have observed a likeness between the word here used and that t...
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Ver. 65. Give them sorrow of heart. ] In place of their mad mirth and sinful music; turn their psalm - as the Vulgate rendereth the word music in th...
Render to them a recompense , &c. See note on Jeremiah 11:20 . The verbs in these verses are not in the imperative mood, but all in the future tense, and certainly should have been so rendered,...
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. B. C. 588. 55 I called upon thy name, O...
The word translated sorrow of heart is found no where else in holy writ, which makes a certain particular explication of it to be difficult, and hath given interpreters a strange liberty in transla...
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
2 Timothy 4:14 ; Jeremiah 11:20 ; Jeremiah 50:29 ; Psalms 28:4 ; Revelation 18:6 ; Revelation 6:10