Lamentations 3:30; Lamentations 5:1; Psalms 74:18; Psalms 89:50; Zephaniah 2:8
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lamentations 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “ The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6 ....
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...
device . meditation. Hebrew. Higyon. See App-66.
Instead of thoughts, he now mentions lips, or words. The verb הגה, ege means to meditate, when no voice is uttered; but as the noun is co...
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
The lips, &c.— The words of those that rise up against me, and their daily songs upon me. Houbigant.
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; Thou hast heard their reproach - their reproachful language ag...
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...
The lips... The organs of speech are used boldly for the words which they uttered, and so stand parallel with “reproaches” in Lamentations 3:61 .
DE PROFUNDIS Lamentations 3:55-66 As this third elegy-the richest and the most elaborate of the five that constitute the Book of Lamentation...
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...
The lips of those that rose up against me ,.... This is to be connected with the preceding words; and expresses the same thing in different language...
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. Ver. 62. The lips of those that rose up. ] See on Lamentation...
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong Here the prophet adverts to his present sufferings, and the ill usage he met with, concerning which he appeals to G...
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. B. C. 588....
That is, thou hast observed and noted the motions or products of my enemies lips, and their secret devices before they came out of their lips.
The Prophet Looks Back On His Own Experiences And Calls On YHWH To Avenge Him ( Lamentations 3:52-66 ). The chapter commenced with the personal ex...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 3:59 . Trials are not things of the past only. Under their continuous pressure endurance is sought for in the tr...
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...
Prayer for Deliverance
the lips of those that rose up against me, with scornful mockery, and their device against me all the day, as they meditated evil.
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.