Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 3:49
"Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not,without any intermission.Till Jehovah look down,and behold from heaven.Mine eye affecteth my soulbecause of all the daughters of my city.They have chased me sore like a bird,they are mine enemies without cause.They have cut off my life in the dungeon,and have cast a stone upon me.Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.""They are mine enemies without cause" (Lamentations 3:52). Ash and other scholars refer to these words as "a puzzle ... because... read more
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