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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Lamentations 3 This chapter is a complaint and lamentation like the former, and on the same subject, only the prophet mixes his own afflictions and distresses with the public calamities; or else he represents the church in her complaints; and some have thought him to be a type of Christ throughout the whole; to whom various things...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction,.... Had a much experience of it, especially ever since he had been a prophet; being reproached and ill used by his own people, and suffering with them in their calamities; particularly, as Jarchi observes, his affliction was greater than the other prophets, who indeed prophesied of the destruction of the...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long verse, this is in short, another kind of metre; that was in single alphabets, this is in a treble one. Here is, I. A sad complaint of God's displeasure and the fruits of it, ver. 1-20. II. Words of comfort to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. It is a mistake that most souls make when in trouble, to suppose that no others ever felt as they do. John Bunyan describes Christian as being very much comforted by hearing someone quoting Scripture as he went through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, for then he perceived that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. This seems to be the hardest part of our lot,-that God should lead us into darkness: “He hath led me, and brought me into darkness.” Yet dear brethren, that is, on the other hand, the sweetest thing about our trial;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Some of us recollect when we used to go into our own room, and shut the door, and read such a chapter as this, and say, “Here is a description of my true condition.” We were once broken in pieces, torn asunder, through...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness,.... Which oftentimes signifies distress, calamity, and affliction, of one sort or another: thus the Jews were brought into the darkness of captivity; Jeremiah to the darkness of a dungeon, to which there may be an allusion; and Christ his antitype was under the hidings of God's face; and at the same...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. A Hebrew method of saying that it was a thick darkness without any light, either star-light or moon-light. You who have passed through this state of conviction know what it means;--no comfort from ordinances, no comfort from God’s Word, no comfort from your daily mercies. Every...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely against me is he turned,.... As an enemy, who used to be a friend; he has so altered and changed the course of his providence, as if his favour and affections were wholly removed; he has planted his artillery against me, and made me the butt of his arrows: or, "only against me"; so Jarchi; as if he was the only person, or the Jews the only...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. As if, when a man is about to strike, he smites not with his open hand but turns his hand, so the prophet says God did with him. He felt that he was being smitten with the heaviest blows that God seemed able to give.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin, hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. “I am like a besieged city that has strong forts built all round it to shut it in on all sides.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones. Conviction of sin seems to dry up the very sap of our life till we become withered with age. Worse than the agony of a broken bone is the pain of a broken heart. When the Holy Spirit convinces of sin, believe...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My flesh and my skin hath he made old,.... His flesh with blows, and his skin with smiting, as the Targum; his flesh was so emaciated, and his skin so withered and wrinkled, that he looked like an old man; as our Lord, when little more than thirty years of age, what with his sorrows and troubles, looked like one about fifty: he hath broken my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. As men through excessive grief sometimes appear to grow prematurely aged, so the prophet says he had done through grief. He felt as if his bones were broken. The sore vexations of his spirit had dashed the solid pillars of the house of Manhood from their place.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath builded against me,.... Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was: and compassed [me] with gall and travail; or "weariness" (e); the same with gall and wormwood, Lamentations 3:19; as Jarchi observes. The sense is, he was surrounded with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. That is to say, as the besiegers erected a mound against a city, and threw up earthworks, so, the prophet says, God seemed to have thrown up earthworks from which he might fire off the great guns of the law against him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath builded against me, — “As if he deliberately built walls to stop up my way, and erected castles from which to attack my soul, ‘He hath builded against me,’” — Lam_3:5. And compassed me with gall and travail. “He has shut me up in a circle of bitterness.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He hath set me in dark places,.... In the dark house of the prison, as the Targum; in the dark dungeon where the prophet was put; or the captivity in which the Jews were, and which was like the dark grave or state of the dead; and hence they are said to be in their graves, Ezekiel 37:12. Christ was laid in the dark grave literally: as [they that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. As though he had to live in a tomb, where neither life nor light could come to him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. He hath hedged me about, that I can not get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Ah, dear friends, it is easy for some people to read such a passage as this, but there are others who have read it with aching brows and eyes red with weeping; and often, I doubt not, as they have read the...