He has turned His hand against me: “A metaphor from buffeters, who double their blows, beating their adversaries on both sides, as the smith doth his red hot iron upon the anvil till he hath shaped it.” (Trapp)Ĭ. Many times through the affliction he felt God to be his adversary, not his friend. Surely He has turned His hand against me: Jeremiah did not stay in this dark and desperate place, but he would not deny being there.
#Loins quiver meaning trial
He has led me and made me walk in darkness: “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 because, if the darkness be in the place where God has led us, it is best for us to be in the dark.” (Spurgeon)ī. He recognized the necessity of the suffering, but suffered with the sufferers.” (Morgan) “That which is most impressive in this song is the identification of the prophet with the people and with God. When nations go through times of tragedy and tribulation, the greatest suffering always takes place at the individual level.” (Ryken) “Jeremiah’s personal lament is a reminder that suffering is always personal. It is possible to interpret this chapter as a record of the feelings of Jeremiah himself, or as a personification in an otherwise unknown individual or the nation’s tragic sufferings.” (Harrison) “The sufferings of the people of Judah are described as though one man had experienced them. He and many others had seen affliction, and they knew that it came as God’s discipline ( the rod of His wrath). Yes, this was Jeremiah, but it certainly was not only him. Here he began to write as the voice of an individual sufferer. I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath: In chapters 1 and 2, Jeremiah wrote mainly as Jerusalem personified.
He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out Ī. I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.Īnd surrounded me with bitterness and woe. “In the Hebrew Bible, the first three verses all start with aleph, the second three verses with beth, and so forth.” (Philipp Ryken) A. “The third poem is significantly different in structure from the others, being made up of single lines grouped in threes, and commencing with the same consonant of the Hebrew alphabet.” (R.K. Lamentations 3 – “Great Is Your Faithfulness”
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