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Lamentations 3

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Verse 1

3:1 I [am] the man [that] hath seen {a} affliction by the rod of his wrath.

(a) The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he declared the destruction of Jerusalem, as in Jeremiah 20:1-2 .

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Verse 5

3:5 He hath {b} built against me, and surrounded [me] with gall and labour.

(b) He speaks this as one that felt God’s heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diversity of words.

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Verse 8

3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my {c} prayer.

(c) This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not heard, which thing God uses so that they might pray more earnestly and often.

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Verse 9

3:9 He hath {d} inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

(d) And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.

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Verse 10

3:10 {e} He [was] to me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

(e) He has no pity on me.

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Verse 15

3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with {f} wormwood.

(f) With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense.

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Verse 18

3:18 And I said, My strength and my {g} hope hath perished from the LORD:

(g) Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the victory.

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Verse 20

3:20 My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled {h} in me.

(h) He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.

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Verse 22

3:22 [It is of] the LORD’S {i} mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

(i) Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, Isaiah 1:9 .

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Verse 23

3:23 [They are] new {k} every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.

(k) We feel your benefits daily.

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Verse 24

3:24 The LORD [is] my {l} portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

(l) The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as Psalms 16:5 .

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Verse 27

3:27 [It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his {m} youth.

(m) He shows that we can never begin too soon to be exercised under the cross, that when the afflictions grow greater, our patience also by experience may be stronger.

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Verse 28

3:28 He sitteth alone {n} and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.

(n) He murmurs not against God, but is patient.

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Verse 29

3:29 He putteth his {o} mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.

(o) He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waits for comfort.

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Verse 33

3:33 For he doth not {p} afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

(p) He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.

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Verse 36

3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord {q} approveth not.

(q) He does not delight in it.

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Verse 37

3:37 Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord {r} commandeth [it] not?

(r) He shows that nothing is done without God’s providence.

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Verse 38

3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not {s} evil and good?

(s) That is, adversity and prosperity, Amos 3:6 .

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Verse 39

3:39 Why doth a living {t} man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

(t) When God afflicts him.

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Verse 41

3:41 Let us lift up {u} our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens.

(u) That is, both hearts and hands: for else to lift up the hands is but hypocrisy.

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Verse 51

3:51 My eye {x} affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

(x) I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people.

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Verse 53

3:53 They have cut off my life {y} in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

(y) Read Jeremiah 37:16 how he was in the miry dungeon.

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Verse 58

3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my {z} soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

(z) Meaning, the reason his life was in danger.

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Bibliographical Information
Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on Lamentations 3". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/gsb/lamentations-3.html. 1599-1645.

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