Psalms 143:3; Psalms 143:7; Psalms 88:5; Psalms 88:6
Or, “He hath” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i. e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”
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...
set me . made me to dwell. as they, &c. . like the age-long dead.
Here he amplifies what he had before said of poison and trouble; he says that he was placed in darkness, not that he might be there for a littl...
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. My flesh and my skin hath he made old - ( Job 16:8 , "Thou hast filled me wit...
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...
Gall ] bitterest sorrow ( Jeremiah 8:14 ). Travel] RV 'travail,' which is the more modern spelling, in the sense here intended, of painful labour...
He hath set me in dark places. — A verbal reproduction of Psalms 143:3 . The “dark places” are those of hell or Hades. For dead of old read dea...
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 set me in dark places ,.... In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity...
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old. Ver. 6. He hath set me in dark places. ] Dungeons haply, which are a kind of graves,...
Surely against me is he turned The course of his providence toward me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now exercises an aff...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
The prophet compareth their state in Babylon to the state of bodies in the graves, or in some charnel-house, which are places of darkness, full of ro...
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. — (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....
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 set me in dark places, literally, "He caused me to dwell in darkness," as they that be dead of old, those encompassed by the long night of...
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.