Lamentations 3:26

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:24-26

Lamentations 3:24-26. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul An interest in the favour and love of God, and his presence with me, my heart tells me, is the best inheritance. And, possessing these, I have that which is sufficient to balance all my troubles, and make up all my losses. For, while portions on earth are empty and perishing things, God is an all-sufficient and durable portion, a portion for ever. Therefore will I hope in him I will stay myself upon him, and encourage myself in... 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 3:26

quietly wait = wait, and he silent. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:26

26. quietly wait—literally, "be in silence." Compare Lamentations 3:28; Psalms 39:2; Psalms 39:9, that is, to be patiently quiet under afflictions, resting in the will of God (Psalms 37:7). So Aaron (Leviticus 10:2; Leviticus 10:3); and Job (Job 40:4; Job 40:5). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 3:19-40

B. Jeremiah’s hope 3:19-40 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 3:25-26

Those who wait for the Lord and seek Him eventually experience His goodness. Waiting for the Lord’s deliverance silently is a good practice (cf. Psalms 37:9; Hosea 12:6; Zephaniah 3:8; Romans 8:25; Galatians 5:5). 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 3:26

(26) Quietly wait.—Literally, wait in silence: i.e. abstain from murmurs and complaints. 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

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