耶利米哀歌 3:21-22 CUNPSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:21

Hope reviving. At length the unmitigated anguish and desolation expressed in the previous parts of this book seem relieved. A ray of light breaks through the dense mass of clouds. Despondency gives place to hope. I. FROM WHAT STATE THIS LANGUAGE BETOKENS A REVULSION , A REACTION . Jeremiah has, not unnaturally, been plunged into distress, dismay, despondency. The terrible calamities which have befallen his nation are sufficient to account for this. Yet, as a child of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:21

How hope rises from the depths of despair. This utterance needs to be contrasted with that in Lamentations 3:18 . There the prophet says that hope is perished. Here he has hope, grounded on a "therefore" and strengthened by a resolved attitude of mind. Thus we are helped to get an explanation of his past depression, or, as we might even call it, despair. We are helped to distinguish between abiding Divine realities and the way in which they are coloured or concealed by our moods. How is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22

It is of the Lord's mercies , etc.; literally, The Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. But the "we" is difficult, especially considering that in Lamentations 3:23 (which is clearly parallel) the subject of the sentence is, not "we," but "the Lord's mercies." Hence it is probable that the reading of the Targum and the Peshite (adopted by Thenius, Ewald, and Bickell) is correct, "The Lord's mercies, verily they cease not" ( tammū for tamnū ) . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22

Sparing compassion. At this point the meditations of the prophet take a turn. He looks away from his own and his fellow countrymen's afflictions and directs his gaze heavenwards. The scene of his vision changes. No longer the calamities of Jerusalem, but the character and the purposes of the Most High, absorb his attention. There is a rainbow which spans even the stormiest sky. Earth may be dark, but there is brightness above. Man may be cruel or miserable, but God has not forgotten to be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-23

The unceasing mercies of God. It would seem, according to the best authorities, that we ought to read the first of these two verses thus: "The Lord's mercies, verily they cease not, surely his compassions fail not." Thus we are assured of the enduring character of God's mercies. How striking is this assurance, coming where it does after monstrous dirges of despair! In the Lamentations we meet with one of the richest confessions of faith in the goodness of God. The black clouds are not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-23

The unfailing compassions of Jehovah. Here indeed is a full retractation of the reckless falsehood recorded in Lamentations 3:18 . He who had hinted that God was a Destroyer, that he delighted, as it were, in reducing his children to despair, is now found glorying in the same God as the great Preserver, the one effectual Guardian of man's existence and peace. I. NOTE THE DESTROYING POWERS THAT BESET HUMAN LIFE . God's mercies are the only guarantee against our being... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-36

RESIGNATION AND HOPEFULNESS . read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:21

This I recall - Rather, “This will I bring back to my heart, therefore will I hope.” Knowing that God hears the prayer of the contrite, he begins again to hope. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:22

Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. In them the riches of God’s grace and mercy are set forth in the brightest colors, but no sooner are they ended than the prophet resumes the language of woe.That we - He is speaking as the representative of all sufferers. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:21-23

Lamentations 3:21-23. This I recall to my mind, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope and comfort. And surely they are such as afford a sufficient ground for trusting in God under the severest trials. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed It is not clear that this is the exact sense of the Hebrew, in which there is nothing for it is of. ... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-36

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:21-23

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