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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 3:18-21

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 3:18. This reads like an account of the climax to the trials undergone. I said, as if talking to myself, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah. The future is void of good. I am unable to look for anything from Him. In Jah Jehovah is everlasting strength, but I do not perceive it. I have lost the direction towards Him.This recalling of the name at last seems to turn the current of thought. I must not let go trust in Him. I must tell Him the... 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 3:17

Lam 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. Ver. 17. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace. ] Prosperity and I are twain; we are utterly unacquainted. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:18

Lam 3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Ver. 18. And I said. ] But not so wisely. I was even almost tumbling into the pit of desperation. I was straddling over it, as it were, but God preserved me. My strength and my hope is perished. ] My strength to bear these miseries, and my hope to be ever freed of them. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 3:17

thou: Lamentations 1:16, Psalms 119:155, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 59:11, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 16:5, Zechariah 8:10 I forgat: Genesis 41:30, Job 7:7, Jeremiah 20:14-Job : prosperity: Heb. good Reciprocal: Psalms 77:3 - I complained John 14:1 - not John 14:27 - not read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 3:18

1 Samuel 27:1, Job 6:11, Job 17:15, Psalms 31:22, Psalms 116:11, Ezekiel 37:11 Reciprocal: Job 8:13 - the hypocrite's Job 9:18 - will not Psalms 77:10 - This is Psalms 102:1 - overwhelmed Jeremiah 10:19 - Truly Jeremiah 31:17 - General Lamentations 3:54 - I said Luke 11:10 - General Luke 15:18 - will arise read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:17

17. Hast removed my soul far off from peace Other renderings of this verse have been proposed, but this is to be preferred, and is really beautiful. It is substantially a quotation from Psalms 88:14, and its very quietness and simplicity are pathetic. The tide of the common ruin had borne the complainer far away from the peace and prosperity which Israel had once known. read more