“ Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. ”
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...
He first asks God to persecute them in wrath, that is, to be implacable to them; for persecution is, when God not only chastises the wicked for a short time, but when he adds evils to evils,...
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. Persecute and destroy them - Thou wilt pursue them with destruction. These are all declaratory, not imprecatory. From under th...
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...
From under the heavens of the Lord. — The phrase is exceptional, but it is obviously equivalent to the whole world, considered as God’s kingdom.
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....
Persecute and destroy them in anger ,.... As they have persecuted the people of God, do thou persecute them; and never leave pursuing them untie thou hast made a full end of them, as the effect of v...
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. Ver. 66. Persecute and destroy them in anger. ] Since they are thine and our implacable and irreformable enemies, be thou, L...
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...
Bring them to a temporal ruin and destruction. How far such petitions are lawful we have before showed, in our notes on Psalms 69:22-24 , &c.; Psalms 119:6-10 , &c.; Jeremiah 11:20 ,...
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 Corinthians 16:22 ; Deuteronomy 2:30 ; Deuteronomy 27:15-26 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Psalms 109:17 ; Psalms 109:18
Persecute — Many passages of this nature which we meet with are prophecies, some of them may be both prophecies and prayers.