Isaiah 30:28; Isaiah 63:17; Lamentations 3:11
Inclosed - Or, hedged Lamentations 3:7 . Hath, made crooked - Or, “hath” turned aside. A solid wall being built across the main road, Jeremi...
He hath (d) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. (d) And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.
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...
crooked . to turn or wind back.
Other metaphors are used. Some think that the Prophet refers to the siege of Jerusalem, but such a view is not suitable. The metaphors correspo...
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone - He has put insuperable obstacles...
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 hath inclosed. — Yet another figure of resourceless misery follows. A massive wall of stone runs across the mourner’s way. When he turns aside i...
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 enclosed my ways with hewn stone ,.... Not with a hedge of thorns, or mud walls, but with a fence of stones; and these not rough, and laid l...
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. Ver. 9. He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, ] i.e., Most strongl...
He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone He hath not only hedged it up with thorns, Hosea 2:6 , but stopped it up with a stone wall which cannot...
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
Ways in Scripture ordinarily signifies men's courses, and methods of counsels, and actions; if the term be taken in that sense here, it signifieth...
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 enclosed my ways with hewn stone, with a strong wall, placing insurmountable obstacles in his way; He hath made my paths crooked, so that h...
Enclosed — He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security, by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone. Crooked — Nay, God not o...
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.