The Lord is my portion - “My portion is Yahweh,” see Numbers 18:20; Psalms 16:5 ff.Therefore will I hope in him - A more full expression of the confidence present in the prophet’s mind in Lamentations 3:21, but based now upon God’s faithfulness in showing mercy. read more
Lamentations 3:21-23. This I recall to my mind, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope and comfort. And surely they are such as afford a sufficient ground for trusting in God under the severest trials. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed It is not clear that this is the exact sense of the Hebrew, in which there is nothing for it is of. ... read more
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
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
mercies = lovingkindnesses. because = verily. read more
new = fresh. every morning. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), for always and continually. read more
"It is of Jehovah's lovingkindness that we are not consumed,because his compassions fail not.They are new every morning;great is thy faithfulness.Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul;therefore will I hope in him.Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him,to the soul that seeketh him.It is good that a man should hopeand quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.It is good for the manthat he bear the yoke in his youth.""Because his compassions fail not" (Lamentations 3:22). "Indeed, if any man... read more
Lamentations 3:22. It is of the Lord's mercies— This is the Lord's mercy, that he hath not entirely consumed me; neither are his companions exhausted. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:22
Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. In them the riches of God’s grace and mercy are set forth in the brightest colors, but no sooner are they ended than the prophet resumes the language of woe.That we - He is speaking as the representative of all sufferers. read more