Lamentations 3:22-24 ASV

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:1-66

Lamentations 3. The Third Lament.— Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lamentations 3:1 forcibly enough: it should read, “ It is I, even I the strong man, who know now, alas, what abasement means.” The chant is artistically more clever than Lamentations 3:1 and Lamentations 3:2, but its heart is not so great. In form it has a cunning device all its own; for the first stanza... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:22

Mercy is nothing else but love flowing freely from any to persons in misery, and differs from compassion only in the freeness of the emanation. It is not because God had not power enough utterly to have consumed us, nor because we had not guilt enough to have provoked his justice to have put an end to our lives, as well as to the lives of many thousands of our countrymen, but it is merely from the Lord’s free love and pity to us in our miseries. If God had not a blessing in store for us, how is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:23

These compassions of God are renewed day by day, to declare the great faithfulness of God in fulfilling his many promises made for mercy to his people. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:24

God is the portion of his people, and they have chosen him as their portion; he hath declared himself to them as such, and they have accepted him as such. This gives them ground both for patience under his providences, and also of expectation of good from him in their lowest and meanest state. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-24

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ח) Lamentations 3:22. The hopefulness which had begun to lift a desponding soul points to the ground on which it may become secure. Its hazy outlook is seeming to clear, and, as in all true ideas of human relationship to God, that which is felt as a privilege for the individual is regarded to be a privilege for all souls also who seek the Lord. One voices the confession of the remnant of Israel thus: Jehovah’s mercies, not in one form, but in many forms they affect men, and,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-23

Lamentations 3:22-23 This is one of those very bright thoughts which lie across this dark book like an April ray upon a retiring cloud. There is no book in the Bible which is more characterised by the illuminations of sorrow. I. We are come, by God's grace, to a new year. We may be very thankful that there are these periods and epochs in life these foldings down of pages we have read and openings of the new leaves of another chapter. They equip us, they give point and definiteness to new... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Lamentations 3:22-23

DISCOURSE: 1091THE VIEWS OF A SAINT IN HIS AFFLICTIONSLamentations 3:22-23. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.IT is in affliction chiefly that the children of God attain to any considerable eminence in religion. By trouble, they are led to realize their principles; and to seek at the fountain-head those consolations which the broken cisterns of this world are no longer able to supply. If... 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 3:22

Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Ver. 22. It is of the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed.] That we are yet on this side hell. This sentence was much in the mouth of that famous Maria Aegyptiaca, and should be in all our minds and mouths for a lenitive. Because his compassions fail a not.] Or, Are not spent, wasted, but, as the oil in the cruse, as the spring ever runneth, the sun ever shineth, &c. This should... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:1-66

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:24

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-24

Sermon Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:22-23

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Lamentations 3:22-23

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-66

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

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:22

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