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James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 3:34

"To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,To turn aside the right of a manbefore the face of the Most High,To subvert a man in his cause,the Lord approveth not.Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,when the Lord commandeth it not?Out of the mouth of the Most Highcometh there not evil and good?Wherefore doth a living man complain,a man for the punishment of his sins?""To crush under foot ... the prisoners" (Lamentations 3:34). "This refers to the harsh cruelties of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:34

Lamentations 3:34. All the prisoners of the earth— All the prisoners of the land. By "the prisoners of the land," I am persuaded are meant the poor insolvent debtors, whom their creditors among the Jews, as well as among other nations, were empowered to cast into prison, and oblige to work out the debt; a power too often exerted with great rigour and inhumanity. See Matthew 18:30; Matthew 18:34. The sufferings of these persons seem to be alluded to Isa 58:3 where the people asking with... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:34

34-36. This triplet has an infinitive in the beginning of each verse, the governing finite verb being in the end of Lamentations 3:36, "the Lord approveth not," which is to be repeated in each verse. Jeremiah here anticipates and answers the objections which the Jews might start, that it was by His connivance they were "crushed under the feet" of those who "turned aside the right of a man." God approves (literally, "seeth," Lamentations 3:36- :; so "behold," "look on," that is, look on with... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 3:34-36

The Lord disapproves of injustice in its many forms and of the brutal oppression of prisoners (cf. Psalms 69:33; Psalms 146:7; Isaiah 42:7; Luke 4:18). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:1-66

Zion’s Hope in God’s MercyThis third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought is sorrow, confession, repentance, prayer. Though consisting of 66 vv. the poem is but a little longer than the others. Three consecutive vv. are built upon each letter of the Heb. alphabet: each triplet is usually closely associated in thought, and consequently grouped together as in the RV.1-18. Zion... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 3:34-36

(34-36) To crush . . .—The triplet of verses forms one sentence dependent upon the final clause, “The Lord approveth not,” literally, doth not look on. By some critics the literal meaning is kept in the form of a question: Doth not the Lord look on this? The fact that the righteous judgment of God is against those who, unlike Him, cause wilful and needless suffering is another ground of hope to the sufferer. The three forms of evil specified are (1) the cruel treatment of prisoners of war, such... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Lamentations 3:1-66

The Shadow of the Cross (For Palm Sunday) Lamentations 3:19 We celebrate Today an event that stands alone in the sacred life of Jesus, the solitary occasion on which He was publicly honoured and escorted into Jerusalem amid popular rejoicings the central Figure in a grand procession of triumph. Palm Sunday is a day of triumph, but still there is something sad even in the triumph, and so we take our text from Lamentations. I. The Shadow of the Cross. The week which opens with a triumph closes... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:25-36

QUIET WAITINGLamentations 3:25-36HAVING struck a rich vein, our author proceeds to work it with energy. Pursuing the ideas that flow out of the great truth of the endless goodness of God, and the immediate inference that He of whom so wonderful a character can be affirmed is Himself the soul’s best possession, the poet enlarges upon their wider relations. He must adjust his views of the whole world to the new situation that is thus opening out before him. All things are new in the light of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Lamentations 3:1-66

CHAPTER 3 The Prophet’s Suffering and Distress This chapter is intensely personal. None but Jeremiah could have written these wonderful expressions of sorrow, the sorrows of the people of God into which he entered so fully, in such a way that they become his own. He shared all their afflictions, bore them himself and then was hated by them. It was the Spirit of Christ who created these feelings in the heart of the prophet. In reading these words of deep distress and the words of faith and... read more

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