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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-20

The title of the Ps. 102:1-28 might very fitly be prefixed to this chapter?The prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord; for it is very feelingly and fluently that the complaint is here poured out. Let us observe the particulars of it. The prophet complains, 1. That God is angry. This gives both birth and bitterness to the affliction (Lam. 3:1): I am the man, the remarkable man, that has seen affliction, and has felt it sensibly, by the rod... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:6

He hath set me in dark places ,.... In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dark grave or state of the dead; and hence they are said to be in their graves, Ezekiel 37:12 . Christ was laid in the dark grave literally: as they that be dead of old : that have been long dead, and are forgotten, as if they had never been; see Psalm 88:5 ; or, "as the dead of the world" ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:7

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go out ,.... When in prison, or in the dungeon, or during the siege of Jerusalem; though the phrase may only denote in general the greatness of his troubles, with which he was encompassed, and how inextricable they were; like a hedge about a vineyard, or a wall about a city, which could not easily be got over: he hath made my chain heavy ; his affliction intolerable. It is a metaphor taken from malefactors that have heavy chains put upon their legs,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:7

He hath hedged me about - This also may refer to the lines drawn round the city during the siege. But these and similar expressions in the following verses may be merely metaphorical, to point out their straitened, oppressed, and distressed state. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:6

Verse 6 Here he amplifies what he had before said of poison and trouble; he says that he was placed in darkness, not that he might be there for a little while, but remain there for a long time; he hath made me, he says, to dwell in darkness. But the comparison which follows more clearly explains the Prophet’s meaning, as the dead of ages. The word עולם, oulam, may refer to future or past time. Some say, as the dead for ever, who are perpetually dead. But the Scripture elsewhere calls those the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:7

Verse 7 Here he says, first, that he was held shut up; for גדר, gidar, is to enclose, and גדרה, gidare, means a fence or a mound, or an enclosure of any kind. He then says, that he was shut up as it were by a fence, so that he could not go forth; literally, it is, and I shall not go forth; but the conjunction here is to be taken as denoting the end. He has shut me up, he says, or he has enclosed me, that I might not get out. It then follows, He hath made heavy my fetter. His meaning is, that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-21

MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION ; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION PERSONIFIED (see Introduction). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:6

This verse is verbally reproduced in Psalms 143:3 . In dark places ; i.e. in Hades (comp. Psalms 88:7 ). As they that be dead of old . A strange comparison; for what difference can it make whether the dead are men of the ancient or the modern world? The rendering, however, though perfectly admissible, is less suitable to the context than as they that are forever dead; who have entered "the land from which there is no return" (an Assyrian title of Hades). Comp. "the everlasting... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:6

Dark places. The sufferer feels as though he were in the dark places of the dead, in the everlasting house which no tenant ever quits. I. GOD SOMETIMES SETS HIS PEOPLE IN DARK PLACES . He permits the light of gladness to fade and the vision of truth to be dimmed and the conscious brightness of his presence to be lost, so that the soul is plunged in black depths of sorrow, doubt, and loneliness. Then the dismayed sufferer feels himself lost, well nigh dead. But he is not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:7

My chain ; literally, my brass (comp. 16:21 ; 2 Kings 25:7 ). read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 3:7

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