Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head - A figurative expression for great mental trouble. read more
Lamentations 3:1-66 Esv
Albert Barnes
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 3:1-2
Lamentations 3:1-2. I am the man that hath seen affliction I myself have suffered affliction in this time of public calamity. He speaks, probably, with a particular regard to the ill treatment he had met with in the discharge of his prophetical office. Some indeed suppose that he speaks in this and the subsequent verses, to Lamentations 3:21, in the character of the people, but so many passages manifestly refer to his own personal troubles, that such an interpretation seems very improbable.... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:3-7
Lamentations 3:3-7. Surely against me is he turned The course of his providence toward me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now exercises an afflicting hand against me, and that not occasionally, or for a short time, but continually, all the day. The phrase, He turneth his hand against me, is equivalent to that which occurs Isaiah 1:25, I will turn thy hand upon thee, where see the note. My flesh, &c., hath he made old Hebrew, בלה , hath wasted, caused... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:8
Lamentations 3:8. Also when I cry and shout When, under a conviction that, in my present distressed condition, I cannot deliver myself, and that no creature can deliver me, I make application to God in prayer for deliverance, and am serious, fervent, and importunate in my addresses to him; he shutteth out my prayer Refuses to hearken to it, or give me any ease or relief; Hebrew, שׂתם , the same as סתם , he hath obstructed my prayer; “hath barred my prayer from approaching him.” Blaney.... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:9-13
Lamentations 3:9-13 . He hath enclosed my way with hewn stone He hath not only hedged it up with thorns, Hosea 2:6, but stopped it up with a stone wall which cannot be broken through; so that my paths are made crooked That is, I traverse to and fro, to the right hand and to the left, to try to get forward, but I am still turned back. Observe, reader, if we walk in the crooked ways of sin, crossing or swerving from God’s laws, it is just with God to make us walk in the crooked paths of... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:14-19
Lamentations 3:14-19. I was a derision to all my people To all the wicked among them, who made themselves merry with the prophet’s griefs and the public judgments; and their song all the day Hebrew, נגינתם , their instrument of music. The word, says Blaney, “is commonly rendered their song; but I rather think it means a subject upon which they played, as upon a musical instrument, for their diversion.” He hath filled me with bitterness A bitter sense of these calamities. God has... 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
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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