Habakkuk 2:3; Lamentations 3:24-29; Psalms 119:81; Psalms 130:7; Psalms 77:7-11
This I recall - Rather, “This will I bring back to my heart, therefore will I hope.” Knowing that God hears the prayer of the contrite, he begins...
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...
mind . heart. hope . expectation.
We see here what I have already stated, that if we struggle against temptations, it will be a sure remedy to us, because our faith will at leng...
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Therefore have I hope— Compare this with the 12th, 13th, and 14th verses of the 20th chapter of Jeremiah.
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ( Jeremiah 9:15 .) Remembering mine affliction ... This gives the rea...
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...
Remembering] RV 'remember,' in the imperative sense ( Lamentations 1:7 ). This I recall ] viz. what just precedes, his affliction.
This I recall to my mind. — Better, This will I recall. The first gleam of hope breaks through the darkness. The sorrow has not been in vain; it...
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...
This I recall to my mind ,.... Not affliction and misery, but the Lord's remembrance of his people; what he had been used to do, and would do again;...
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. Ver. 21. This I recall to my mind. ] This? What? God's infinite mercies, that cape of good hope;...
This I recall to my mind , &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the fol...
Words of Comfort to Israel; The Benefit of Afflictions; Comfort to the Afflicted. B. C....
This, not what was already said, that made them despair, and their souls to bow down; but this, that which followeth, concerning the nature of God, a...
The Prophet Prays His Way Through To Confidence In YHWH ( Lamentations 3:19-39 ). When our souls have reached their lowest point there is only one...
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...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed
This, namely, the fact that his soul is deeply afflicted by the mere remembrance of his sufferings, I recall to my mind, taking it to heart, there...
This — Which follows, concerning the nature of God, and his good providences.
21 This I recallg to my mind, therefore have I hope.