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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:55-65

We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet's breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Ps. 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comforts himself:? I. His experience of God's goodness even in his affliction. This may refer to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:55

I called upon thy name, O Lord ,.... As in times past, so in the present distress; when all hope was gone, and all help failed, still there was a God to go to, and call upon: out of the low dungeon ; or "dungeon of lownesses" F18 מבור תחתיות "e cisterna infimitatum", Piscator. ; the lowest dungeon, the deepest distress, a man or people could be in; yet then and there it is not too late to call upon the Lord; and there may be hope of deliverance out of such an estate by him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:56

Thou hast heard my voice ,.... Either in times past, when he cried unto him, and was delivered; and this was an encouragement to call upon him again in such extremity, who had shown himself to be a God hearing and answering prayer; hence it follows: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry ; turn not a deaf ear to me, who hast been wont to hear me heretofore; stop not thine ear at my cry now, at my prayer, which he calls his "breathing"; prayer is the breath of a soul regenerated by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:56

Hide not thine ear at my breathing - He dared not even to complain, nor to cry, nor to pray aloud: he was obliged to whisper his prayer to God. It was only a breathing. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:55

Verse 55 We certainly see that the Prophet had an inward conflict, which also all the faithful experience, for the spirit fights against the flesh, as Paul teaches us. (Galatians 5:17.) Though, then, he on the one hand apprehended death, he yet ceased not to flee to God; for faith strengthened his mind so that he did not succumb, but on the contrary he firmly rejected the temptation presented to him. Though, then, he was, according to the flesh, persuaded as to his own ruin, he on the other... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:56

Verse 56 When the Prophet says that God heard, it is the same as though he said, that he had so prayed that God became a witness of his earnestness and solicitude; for many boast in high terms of their earnestness and fervor and constancy in prayer, but their boastings are all empty and vain. But the Prophet summons God as a witness of his crying, as though he had said that he was not so overwhelmed by his adversity, but that he always fled to God. He then says, Close not, etc.; it is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:52-66

THE SPEAKER 'S SUFFERINGS ; AN EARNESTLY BELIEVING PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE . He speaks as a representative of the nation; if we should not rather say that the nation itself, personified, is the speaker. In the first triad some have supposed a reference to the persecution suffered by Jeremiah at the hands of his countrymen. The "dungeon," or rather "pit," will in this case be the "dungeon" ("pit") mentioned in Jeremiah 38:6 . But a "pit" is a figure in the psalms for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:55

I called. Bunsen renders, "Then I called." But there is no connection indicated in the Hebrew between this and the preceding triad. Out of the low dungeon; literally, out of the pit of the lower parts ( of the earth )—a phrase borrowed from Psalms 88:6 (Hebrew, 7). Sheol, or Hades, is signified. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:55

Jeremiah calling out of the dungeon. This is no mere figure for a great extremity, as we are made to feel when we read Jeremiah 38:1-28 , of the prophecies. It was not from amid mere restraint that the prophet cried, but from miry depths, most perilous, painful, and disgusting. Note— I. THE PUTTING INTO THE DUNGEON . God does not stretch forth his hand to prevent his servants from being put into such dreadful circumstances He looks on while they are haled to prison and even... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:55-56

The cry from the dungeon. There seems every reason for believing that, in these words, the prophet is recording his own actual experience. Under the reign of Zedekiah, when the doom of Jerusalem was near at hand, the faithful Jeremiah prophesied to the people, and by his warnings and predictions so offended the princes who were in authority in the city that they cast him into the pit of the prison. By Divine goodness he was delivered from this misery by the agency of the eunuch... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:55-65

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:55

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:56

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:56

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:55

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:56

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:52-66

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:55

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:55

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:55-56

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