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The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:63

Their sitting down, and their rising up . Elsewhere the phrase is a comprehensive expression for all a man's occupations (comp. Psalms 139:2 ; Isaiah 37:28 ). I am their music; rather, their song; i.e. the subject of their taunting songs, p. in the parallel passage, Job 30:9 ; comas Psalms 69:12 (Hebrew, 13). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:63

The music of the wicked. I. THE PLEASURES OF BAD MEN . Musical tastes are, of course, irrespective of moral character. There are certain original qualities both in eye and ear which remain and demand satisfaction, whatever the moral character may become. If a person of musical tastes becomes a Christian, than his Christianity may be the better for his music, or possibly, if he is not careful, it may become worse. On the other hand, if a person of musical tastes becomes an... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:55-66

A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.Lamentations 3:55Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).Lamentations 3:56Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief.Lamentations 3:58God now appears as the prophet’s next of kin, pleading the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:59-63

Lamentations 3:59-63. 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 God; as if he had said, Thou hast seen that I have done no wrong at all, but that I suffer a great deal. He that knows all things knew, 1st, The malice they had against him; thou hast seen, says he, all their vengeance How they desire to do me a mischief, as if it were by way of reprisal for some great injury I had done... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-66

Grief, repentance and hope (3:1-66)This poem is different in style from the previous two. The poet speaks as if he is the representative of all Judah, describing Judah’s sufferings as if they were his own. And those sufferings are God’s righteous judgment (3:1-3). He is like a starving man ready to die. Indeed, he feels as if he already dwells in the world of the dead (4-6). He is like a man chained and locked inside a stone prison from which there is no way out (7-9).To the writer God seems... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 3:63

their musick = their mocking song, as in Lamentations 3:14 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:62

Lamentations 3:62. The lips, &c.— The words of those that rise up against me, and their daily songs upon me. Houbigant. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:63

Lamentations 3:63. I am their musick— The subject of their songs. See Lam 3:14 and Houbigant; who renders the three following verses, as do many other versions, in the future tense. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The prophet here mingles his lamentations over his own sufferings with those of the people; or he personates the church in general: and some, with good appearance of reason, suppose him herein a type of Christ. 1. He laments over his afflictions as singularly heavy, embittered with a sense of the... read more

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