Ezekiel 36:3; Jeremiah 18:18; Psalms 140:3; Psalms 59:12; Psalms 59:7
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...
their musick . their mocking song, as in Lamentations 3:14 .
The Prophet repeats still the same thing, only in other words. He had spoken of the lyings in wait, and the conspiracies and the speeches of hi...
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
I am their musick— The subject of their songs. See Lamentations 3:14 and Houbigant; who renders the three following verses, as do many other ve...
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...
Musick] RV 'song.' 64-66. AV by translating the imperfect tenses of the verbs in this triplet as imperatives, makes the language appear harsher...
(63) Their sitting down, and their rising up... — The two words, as in Deuteronomy 6:7 ; Deuteronomy 11:19 ; Psalms 139:2 ; include the whole da...
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...
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up ,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience...
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick. Ver. 63. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up. ] Or, At their both...
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, at all times, when they sit down and rise up, I am their song. Though probably the words have a special reference to their sitting down at f...
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
Behold their sitting down and their rising up, observing all the conduct and doing of the enemies; I am their music, the object of their derisive s...
I am — At feasts, and at their merry meetings, I am all the subject of their discourse.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.