Lamentations 3:1 NIV

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 3:1

This chapter contains twenty-two verses: each verse having three lines: each line beginning with the same letter: and so, onward to the end of the alphabet. I am the man. The prophet is representative of the nation, and speaks in the name of the whole. He is also typical and prophetical of Another, Who, in after years, took on Himself and bore the nation's sin. App-85 . The chapter must be read in connection with the Passion Psalms ( Psa 22:69 , Psa 22:88 ). The Figure of speech is ... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 3:1

THE STEADFAST LOVE OF THE LORD NEVER CEASES[1]This chapter begins with the words, "I am the man"; and this writer confidently identifies the prophet Jeremiah as "the man," not merely the man in this chapter, but also the author of the whole book. We are aware, of course, that this is disputed.Most of the current scholars follow the notion that "the man" is, "A typical sufferer who represented many in the nation,"[2] "An individual, but not an historical figure, but anyone who has suffered... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:1

Lamentations 3:1. I am the man that hath seen affliction— The prophet here speaks partly in his own character, and partly in that of his countrymen and fellow-sufferers; and throughout the whole in such a manner as agrees admirably with the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom Jeremiah in his sufferings especially was a type. See Isaiah 53:3. The reader will find most of the expressions in this chapter explained in the book of Job, and the Psalms. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:1

1-3. seen affliction—his own in the dungeon of Malchiah ( :-); that of his countrymen also in the siege. Both were types of that of Christ. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 3:1

Jeremiah claimed to have seen much affliction because Yahweh had struck Jerusalem in His anger (cf. Job 9:34; Job 21:9; Psalms 89:32; Isaiah 10:5)."The two preceding poems ended with sorrowful complaint. This third poem begins with the complaint of a man over grievous personal suffering." [Note: Keil, 2:402-3.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 3:1-18

A. Jeremiah’s sorrows 3:1-18 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 3:1

(1) I am the man.—The lamentation is one of more intense personality. For that very reason it has been the true inheritance of all mourners, however widely different in time, country, circumstance, whose sorrows have approximated to that intensity.The rod of his wrath.—The “wrath” is obviously that of Jehovah (comp. Proverbs 22:8; Isaiah 10:5), but there is something significant in the fact that He is not named. 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