Jeremiah 15:17; Lamentations 2:10; Psalms 102:7; Psalms 39:9
Translate: Let him sit alone and keep silence; For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him. Let him place his mouth in the dust; Perchance...
He sitteth alone (n) and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. (n) He murmurs not against God, but is patient.
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...
Here he shews the fruit of teachableness; for when God deals severely with his children, they yet do not rebel, but even then they willingly su...
DISCOURSE: 1093 THE BENEFIT OF EARLY AFFLICTIONS Lamentations 3:27-29 . It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alon...
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He sitteth alone - He has learned that necessary lesson of independence, t...
Because he hath borne it upon him— When he shall take up his yoke. Houbigant.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He ... keepeth silence - the fruit of true docility and patience. He...
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 sitteth alone... — Better, Let him sit alone, and keep silence when He (Jehovah) hath laid it (the yoke) upon him; and so in the next vers...
QUIET WAITING Lamentations 3:25-36 HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy. Pursuing the ideas that flow out of t...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which...
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 the...
He sitteth alone ,.... Retires from the world, and the men of it, who takes upon him the yoke of Christ; though he is not alone, but God, Father, So...
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. Ver. 28. He sitteth alone. ] Sessio solitaria, as being much in med...
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth That he be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a right sense...
Words of Comfort to Israel; The Benefit of Afflictions; Comfort to the Afflicted. B. C....
Our English Annotations supplying that , makes the connexion clear, It is good for a man that he sit alone , Jeremiah 15:17 ; not doing what he...
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. — (י) Lamentations 3:28 . A yoke is not of itself beneficial; it must be borne along with desires and efforts to reach to its p...
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
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, practicing patience in a solitude which enables him to value the divine chastisements, because He hath borne i...
Borne it — That he keep his soul in subjection to God, because God hath humbled him by his rod.
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.