“ He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. ”
Inclosed - Or, hedged Lamentations 3:7 . Hath, made crooked - Or, “hath” turned aside. A solid wall being built across the main road, Jeremiah turns aside into by-ways, but finds them turned...
He hath (d) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. (d) And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.
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...
crooked . to turn or wind back.
Other metaphors are used. Some think that the Prophet refers to the siege of Jerusalem, but such a view is not suitable. The metaphors correspond with one another, though they are somewhat diff...
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone - He has put insuperable obstacles in my way; and confounded all my projects of deliv...
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Hedged - ( Job 3:23 ; Hosea 2:6 ). Hosea shows that this hedging up for Israel is not for her eternal ruin, but f...
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 inclosed. — Yet another figure of resourceless misery follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner’s way. When he turns aside into by-paths, they are turned and twisted in labyr...
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 enclosed my ways with hewn stone ,.... Not with a hedge of thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and these not rough, and laid loosely together, but hewn and put in order, and we...
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. Ver. 9. He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, ] i.e., Most strongly and closely, so that none can come at me. He...
He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone He hath not only hedged it up with thorns, Hosea 2:6 , but stopped it up with a stone wall which cannot be broken through; so that my paths are made cr...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
Ways in Scripture ordinarily signifies men's courses, and methods of counsels, and actions; if the term be taken in that sense here, it signifieth God's defeating all their methods and counsels tak...
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
Isaiah 30:28 ; Isaiah 63:17 ; Lamentations 3:11
Enclosed — He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security, by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone. Crooked — Nay, God not only defeated their counsels, but made them fatal a...