Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:21
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.This — Which follows, concerning the nature of God, and his good providences. read more
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.This — Which follows, concerning the nature of God, and his good providences. read more
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.Faithfulness — In fulfilling thy promises to thy people. read more
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
2. Darkness Calamity. Light Prosperity. read more
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
4. Flesh and… skin… made old The verb means to wear out by rubbing. Flesh, skin, and bones make up the whole body; the softer and the firmer parts. read more
5. Hath builded against me As besiegers enclose a city. Gall and travail A most extraordinary combination surely, but not unlike Jeremiah. “Gall” is the name of a bitter plant which has come to be synonymous with keen suffering, and so it seems to be used here co-ordinate with “travail.” read more
6. Dark places Literally, in darkness; that is, in sheol. Dead of old Literally, dead of eternity; namely, those who shall never return to life. read more
7. Chain Literally, brass. The figure is that of a prisoner shut up in an enclosure and loaded with heavy fetters. read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Wormwood — Wormwood and gall, are often made use of to signify great affliction. read more