1 Samuel 27:1; Ezekiel 37:11; Job 17:15; Job 6:11; Psalms 116:11; Psalms 31:22
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The...
And I said, My strength and my (g) hope hath perished from the LORD: (g) Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the go...
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...
strength . strength (for endurance). Hebrew. nezah. See notes on Isaiah 40:9 ; Isaiah 40:10 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; Isaiah 40:29 ; Isaiah 40:31 .
This verse shews what I have before reminded you of, that the Prophet does not here speak as though he was divested of every sin, and prescribe...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: And my hope - That first, that last support of the miserable - it is gone! it is peris...
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. He hath ... broken my teeth with gravel - referring to the gr...
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...
Broken my teeth with gravel stones ] i.e. God has forced him to eat bread full of grit. ( Proverbs 20:17 ). He hath covered me with ashes ] or, 'He...
I said, My strength. — The sorrow of the mourner comes to the very verge of despair. There was “no help for him from his God;” even that hope had l...
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...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath the...
And I said, my strength and my hope are perished from the Lord. The former of these words signifies, according to Aben Ezra, "my standing", my subs...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Ver. 18. And I said. ] But not so wisely. I was even almost tumbling into the pit o...
I was a derision to all my people To all the wicked among them, who made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public judgments; and...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
No text from Poole on this verse.
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. — Lamentations 3:18 . This reads like an account of the climax to the trials undergone. I said, as if talking to myself, My...
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
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. His vitality was sapped by his afflictions, and his hope and trust in Jehovah had left...
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: