Job 16:12; Job 16:13; Job 6:4; Job 7:20; Psalms 38:2; Psalms 7:12; Psalms 7:13
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The...
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 La...
His bow. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia.
Here the Prophet introduces another metaphor, that God had shot him with arrows, as he was made a mark to them. Jeremiah has elsewhere often us...
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow - One might conjecture that the fo...
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion ( Job 10:16 ; 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...
He was ] RV 'He is.' As a bear.. as a lion ] God is even lying in wait to oppose him ( Jeremiah 4:7 ; Jeremiah 5:6 ). Danger follows di...
He hath bent his bow. — (Comp. Job 16:12 .) The figure is changed, but there is a natural sequence of thought. The lion suggests the huntsman. but...
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 th...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which...
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 i...
He hath bent his bow ,.... Which is put for all the instruments, of war; the Chaldeans were archers, and shot their arrows into the city: and set...
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. Ver. 12. He hath bent his bow. ] Lamentations 2:4 . And set me as a mark. ] Which h...
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...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
He hath prepared himself for acts of vindicative justice, and he hath made me the object of it.
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 onl...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ד) Lamentations 3:10 . Difficulties had been embarrassing, but dangers were also added. In the crooked paths the bear and t...
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 i...
The first part of this chapter is one of the saddest in the whole Book of God; yet I expect it has ministered as much consolation as some of the brig...
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....
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...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF...
A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
He hath bent His bow, taking deliberate aim at His target, and set me as a mark for the arrow. Cf Job 16:12 .
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.