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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

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:1

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:4

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Made old — All my beauty is gone, and all my strength. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:5

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.Builded — He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:9

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.Enclosed — He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security, by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone.Crooked — Nay, God not only defeated their counsels, but made them fatal and pernicious to them. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:15

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Wormwood — With severe and bitter dispensations. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:16

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.Ashes — Mourners were wont to throw ashes on their heads. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:1

PERSONAL LAMENTATION FOR GRIEVOUS SUFFERINGS, Lamentations 3:1-18. 1. I am the man Jeremiah speaks out of his personal experience, and thus individualizes the common misery. What he writes was literally and exactly true of himself; but it was also a type and a specimen of what was true in the case of many others. But he writes not so much as the representative of the people in general as of those devout and faithful ones who continued to be held together by the bond of a common faith as... read more

Daniel Whedon

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

3. Surely against me This verse is idiomatic and intense. Surely against me hath he turned his hand again and again all the day long. “ His hand is the smiting of God.” (Keil.) read more

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