Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:47
Desolation - Or, devastation. read more
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Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:48-51
The deep sympathy of the prophet, which pours itself forth in abundant tears over the distress of his people.Lamentations 3:51Or, “Mine eye” causeth pain to my soul, i. e. maketh my soul ache, because of the sad fate of the maidens (Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:18, ...). read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:52
Or, “They who without cause are mine enemies have hunted me sore like a bird.” Probably the prophet is speaking of his personal sorrows. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon - Or, “They destroyed my life in the pit,” i. e. tried to destroy it by casting me into the cistern, and covering the month with a stone. See the margin reference. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression for great mental trouble. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:55-66
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.Lamentations 3:55Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).Lamentations 3:56Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief.Lamentations 3:58God now appears as the prophet’s next of kin, pleading the... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:21-23
Lamentations 3:21-23. This I recall to my mind, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope and comfort. And surely they are such as afford a sufficient ground for trusting in God under the severest trials. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed It is not clear that this is the exact sense of the Hebrew, in which there is nothing for it is of. ... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:24-26
Lamentations 3:24-26. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul An interest in the favour and love of God, and his presence with me, my heart tells me, is the best inheritance. And, possessing these, I have that which is sufficient to balance all my troubles, and make up all my losses. For, while portions on earth are empty and perishing things, God is an all-sufficient and durable portion, a portion for ever. Therefore will I hope in him I will stay myself upon him, and encourage myself in... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:27-30
Lamentations 3:27-30. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth That he be inured betimes to bear those useful restraints which may give him a right sense of the duty which he owes to God, and the obedience he ought to pay to his laws. For the prophet’s expression is very applicable to the yoke of God’s commands; it is good for us to take that yoke upon us in our youth; we cannot begin too soon to be religious; it will make our duty the more acceptable to God, and easy to... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:45
Omit “as.” read more