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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 3:59-66

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 3:59. Trials are not things of the past only. Under their continuous pressure endurance is sought for in the truth that the eye and ear of the Lord are ever open for all sights and sounds. Thou, O Jehovah, hast seen my wrong, that which is done to me, and that sight forms a plea for the righteous sentence of Him who sitteth on the throne judging right.Lamentations 3:60. There was the keenest of vengeance in the treatment to which the Lord’s servant was subjected,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-66

Chapter 3In this third lamentation he begins from the depth of depression and despair. He begins with hopelessness, and hopelessness is always the experience behind depression. Depression is the loss of hope, no way out, nothing I can do. Hopelessness leads to depression.I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light ( Lamentations 3:1-2 ).It seems like God has turned against the prophet. "I have seen the wrath of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:1-66

The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistichs formed distinct lines, as in other poetry. The prophet commences with the idea of a prisoner, sitting in darkness, and bound with a chain. As Jeremiah intended this poem to be set to music, it was proper to preserve the rhythm and spirit of poetic composition. Lamentations 3:1 . I am the man... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:60

Lam 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me. Ver. 60. Thou hast seen all their vengeance. ] See on Lamentations 3:59 . The saints fare the better for their enemies’ spite and cruelty; and they may very well plead and present it to God in prayer. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 3:60

Lamentations 3:59, Psalms 10:14, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20 read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.Seen — Thou hast been a witness to all their fury. read more

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