Habakkuk 1:2; Job 19:7; Job 30:20; Lamentations 3:44; Matthew 27:46; Psalms 22:2; Psalms 80:4
Shout - i. e. call for help. Shutteth out - Or, “shutteth in.” God has so closed up the avenues to the place in which he is immured, that his...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (c) prayer. (c) This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their praye...
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...
The Prophet describes here the extremity of all evils, that it availed him nothing to cry and to pray. And yet we know that we are called to do...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Hedged - ( Job 3:23 ; Hosea 2:6 ). Hosea shows that this hedgin...
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 hath made my paths crooked ] in the sense that every avenue of advance is blocked.
He shutteth out my prayer — i.e., stops it so that it does not reach the ear of Jehovah; and it is Jehovah himself who does this.
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...
Also when I cry and shout ,.... Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in...
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. Ver. 8. Also when I cry and shout. ] As poor prisoners use to do for relief and release....
Also when I cry and shout When, under a conviction that, in my present distressed condition, I cannot deliver myself, and that no creature can deli...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
In the condition I am in, I cannot help myself, no creatures can help me, I have no hope but in God. I take the ordinary course in that case, which i...
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
Also when I cry and shout, begging for deliverance, He shutteth out my prayer, this refusal to hear making the afflictions all the harder to bear.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.