Study Desk. III. Read verse in … (It is) חסדי, "the mercies of God," i.e., proofs of His mercy (cf. (a) It is good now in the depth of the soul—in the conscious assurance that it is better to rest in the hardest of God's ways than to wander at will in our own. If so, complaint is at once removed by the second consideration which our text suggests. (22) It is of the Lord’s mercies.—It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to which the mourner attains, being both preceded and followed by words of lamentation. The Lamentations are written in poetry. (Lamentations 3:22). Every morning of those dark days witnessed some new provision of God’s care. This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. v., p. 205; Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. III. Spiritual experience must be looked at as a whole. I. We are aware, of course, that this is disputed. Lamentations 4:2.—A. ... Acts 3:22… II. It is of the Lord's mercies— This is the Lord's mercy, that he hath not entirely consumed me; neither are his companions exhausted. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. We owe it to each other. This self-encouragement begins with Lamentations 3:22, inasmuch as the prophet strengthens his hope by a consideration of the infinite compassion of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. That is the very office of the family toward its young and inexperienced members. II. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. They are granted in an indirect manner, and in the discipline of graces more important than the gifts themselves. There is One who uses this very figure concerning His own Divine office. x., No. 3:39 (or Lam. "[25], This section through Lamentations 3:39 (or Lamentations 3:42) carries an expression of full assurance in God's unfailing mercies; and that such is found in Lamentations is indeed remarkable and carries its own rich consolations. Lamentations 3:22-23 – “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” This is such a comforting Bible verse as it not only declares God’s everlasting love for … There we are before the throne of God by anticipation, that throne before which the man found without the wedding-garment, when questioned why he has it not, is speechless. There is, first, the yoke of home. Matthew 11:29 - Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls . In self-examination each man is his own minister; and Christ, who is above, the only Priest. Aleph. These two arguments we will apply (1) to God's general dealings; (2) to His individual. Say it to thyself a thousand times. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview When you remember that man is a transgressor, not only by imputation, but by every positive and personal working of evil, surely the marvel must be, not that so much of wormwood should drug the cup of human life, but that so much of sweetness should still have been left. Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the LORD and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Since it is human nature to battle against self-worship, we are tempted to focus on the latter half of this verse which seems to promise that God will give us whatever our little hearts desire. CHAPTER (ELEGY) 3 La 3:1-66. Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. God‘s mercies are new every single morning. These psalms trace the upward ascent of our heart to Gods heart, but its not smooth sailing all the way. Lamentations 3 – “Great Is Your Faithfulness” “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. Harrison) It is not enough to be under the rule of others. Burton, Christian Life and Truth, p. 368. But if we attend to the context, we shall see that another sense is more suitable, even that the mercies of God were not consumed, and that his compassion’s had not failed The particle כי,ki, is inserted, but ought to be taken as an affirmative only, surely the mercies of God are not consumed; (183) and then, — surely his compassion’s have not failed. V. The self-examiner is a profitable attendant in the services of the church. God placed him not in a "sleeping hollow" to fatten in idleness; but in a large garden, to dress it and to keep it. There has been plenty of sorrow in every age, and in every land; but such another preacher and author as Jeremiah, with such a heart for sorrow, has never again been born. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. The work of self-examination has this advantage, that it is a real, personal act; and in religion, as has been well-observed, what a man does for himself is of much more avail than what others do or can do for him. 22 It is of the Lord ’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. II. (2) We are living men. Lamentations 1:21-22 and Lamentations 3:59-66 appear to be incongruent with Jeremiah's conviction that the Babylonians were functioning as God's instrument of judgment (Jeremiah 20:4-5). Dante comes next to Jeremiah, and we know that Jeremiah was that great exile’s favourite prophet. Lamentations 4:22.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.. Isaiah 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 27:39 Lamentations 3:8 - Math. (1) Hope: (a) The foundation of hope may be said to lie in desire. Life, when regarded as the seedtime of eternity, must appear to be so enormous in value that its sternest and most aggravated sorrows dwindle away into comparative nothingness. References: Lamentations 3:24.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. I. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. II. That we are yet on this side hell. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people, II. The command to seek the Lord and the command to wait on the Lord have the same general meaning, and the same general promises are given to each. Lamentations 3:28 - Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. Do you not sometimes come from the place of prayer with the guilty consciousness that you have not prayed. There is no greater evil committed by any of us than a practical forgetfulness of the common mercies of life: mercies, which because of their commonness, cease to be regarded as mercies. We forget, that although we did not ourselves elect Adam to act as our representative, we should, almost beyond doubt, have elected him, had it been put to our choice. But realizing the context of Psalm 37:4 will help us better comprehend what it means to … When we think of the future we always see it in a mass; but it will not come in a mass, but in multitudes of little bits. 1291. They are new: (1) because they were forfeited yesterday by our sins; (2) because new light is thrown upon them, and our hearts have been renewed to see them better; (3) because they can be dedicated anew, used for new services and new love; (4) because of the "night of heaviness," which endureth but for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. For there was an infinitely greater probability that Adam, with the fate of millions committed to his keeping, would have watched diligently against the assaults of temptation, than that any lonely individual of his descendants, left to obey for himself and disobey for himself, should have maintained his allegiance and preserved his fidelity. (2) It is good for a man to bear the yoke. Ver. We are come, by God's grace, to a new year. VI. ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’. This sentence was much in the mouth of that famous Maria Aegyptiaca, and should be in all our minds and mouths for a lenitive. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of Christian service. 579; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 325. 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. II. How can a complaint against justice be itself just. Full suddenly he draws out another stop in the organ, a stream of hope and comfort pours upon the ear (Lamentations 3:22-33).—It is as though he had caught the cadence of some angel minstrelsy. Psalm 89:2 ; Psalm 107:43 ; Isaiah 63:7 ), "that we are not utterly consumed," as Luther and similarly our English translators have excellently rendered תּמנוּ. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. That we are yet on this side hell. Because his compassions fail (a) not.] (22) It is of the Lord’s mercies.—It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to which the mourner attains, being both preceded and followed by words of lamentation. Self-examination is a rehearsing of the judgment day, for it is a having the soul up before conscience, and conscience is God's voice in the heart. because his compassions fail not; or, "his tender mercies"F24רחמו "miserationes ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. Lamentations 3:21-23. and so the Septuagint, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have not left me"; and to the same sense the Syriac version is, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have no end", and Aben Ezra's note on the text is almost in the same words, "for there is no end to the mercies of God;'. Great is thy faithfulness. V. We owe this appeal to God's provision for our full reconciliation to Himself. It is good for us all to have to work for our bread. But in this passage they are for once combined; their combination suggesting a certain difference between them and the perfection of devotion which results from their union. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). (2) "Quiet waiting," or patience. It is the Lord who reigns in all circumstances, and He reigns over them. (1) He tells us the goodness of waiting: it is good for a man to wait. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people (Lamentations 3:1-21).—His description of the miseries through which they were passing is very pitiful—the wrinkled skin, the broken bones, the darkness as of the grave, the lofty walls that encompassed them, the penetration of the sharp arrows into their flesh, the derision of the people, the grit of the coarse flour that broke his teeth, the wormwood and the gall of his cup. Generally in the combination of these two terms, each expresses the perfection of all prayer as it is either the active seeking of God or the passive waiting for Him; in other words, what man does and what he must expect God to do in the whole business of devotion. There is also an inherent assurance here that the cry for mercy will be heard. The five chapters form five stanzas of one elegy over Zion's fall. 2:1-12, all the woes are bemoaned as being God's work, and His alone; and Lam. There are times when we get excited about Psalm 23, and say Amen. Though He may have caused grief, yet is His compassion in proportion to the multitude of His mercies. And they were alike in this also, that, just because of their combined strength, and sternness, and sensibility, no man in their day sympathised with them. Verse 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; after all Nehemiah 9:32; Ezekiel 24:13,14; Galatians 3:4 hast punished, etc Heb. One side is very dark and full of sadness, sharply inclined towards despair; the other is brighter than the summer morning, tuneful, sunned with all the lustre of saintly hope. But the home must at last send out its sons and its daughters into a rougher school of experience, and the half-way house on this journey is first the school with its discipline, and then the more special training for a particular profession or trade. (Lamentations 3:22-23) Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. It is not because God had not power enough utterly to have consumed us, nor because we had not guilt enough to have provoked his justice to have put an end to our lives, as well as to the lives of many thousands of our countrymen, but it is merely from the Lord’s free love and pity to us in our miseries. Lamentations 3:22 - חסדי יהוה כי לא־תמנו כי לא־כלו רחמיו׃ - The LORD'S indeed never cease, For His compassions... - Interlinear Study Bible III. Lamentations 3:49 - My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, on StudyLight.org Coffman Commentaries on the Bible "Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission. Each day will have a duty, a trial, a temptation, a strength, a joy. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview III. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of subjection to authority. It differs from desire in this, that desire pursues many things that can never be objects of hope to us. It was true of the prophet, that he died not in prison, or in the dungeon; and of the people of the Jews, who though many of them perished by the sword, famine, and pestilence, yet God did not make a full end of them, according to his gracious promise, Jeremiah 30:11; but left them a seed, a remnant, from whence the Messiah, the mercy promised, should come, and to which it was owing they were not utterly cut off for their sins: nor are any of the Lord's special people ever consumed; their estates may be consumed, and so may their bodies by wasting diseases, and at last by death; but not their souls, not only as to their being, but as to their well being, here and hereafter; though their peace, joy, and comfort, may be gone for a while, through temptation, desertion, and the prevalence of corruption; and they may be in declining circumstances, as to the exercise of grace, yet the principle itself can never be lost; faith, hope, and love, will abide; nor can they eternally perish, or be punished with an everlasting destruction: all which is to be ascribed not to their own strength to preserve themselves, nor to any want of desert in them to be destroyed, or of power in God to consume them; but to his "mercies" and "goodnesses", the multitude of them; for there is an abundance of mercy, grace, and goodness in God, and various are the instances of it; as in the choice of his people to grace and glory; in the covenant of grace, and the blessings of it they are interested in; in redemption by Christ; in regeneration by his Spirit; in the forgiveness of their sins; and in their complete salvation; which are all so many reasons why they are not, and shall not be, consumed. — Ed. 22.We are not consumed — “We,” here, takes the place of I without any marked transition, suggesting, as above intimated, that the prophet in what goes before identifies himself with the people. C. J. Vaughan, Pulpit Analyst, vol. And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me? "This is the focal point of the whole book; it is a central core of hope of restoration for Israel in God's own good time; and there is a symmetry in the book that highlights this central core. There are two things which often divert men from appealing to God. The first thing is to be a Christian; the next thing is to avow it. VI. Click the Bible to visit the new StudyLight.org being developed!! It is a mercy which no money can buy, which no rank can command. We live not upon old mercies, but upon new ones fresh from the Divine hand, fresh from the Divine heart. He gives counsel from the wisdom he has learned, so that the nation could learn from it. (c) There is a third element to be added to make our hope strong—that of imagination. VIII. 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all … Recent Articles. How easy and how common it is to discourse in a querulous and reproachful strain, on the fact of our being made to suffer for a forefather's transgressions, and on the fact of our deriving a polluted nature from guilt in which personally we took not any share. Psalm 23 is a great Psalm to read and be comforted. VII. It is when pain or overwork chases sleep away, when he lies upon his bed and waits for its coming but it comes not, when he begins to dread the nights lest he should have the same wretched experiences again and again—a fear which prepares the way for its own fulfilment—it is then that he begins to learn what is meant by sleep, and what high rank it takes among the common mercies of life. Here is the danger of forms and modes. Self-examination is a private work. We wish it were, but its not. They equip us, they give point and definiteness to new intention, they offer fresh feelings, they take us out of grooves, they stir up in us our immortality. IT is in affliction chiefly that the children of God attain to any considerable eminence in religion. That means that when we run to Him and ask for forgiveness, He is faithful If there was nothing unjust in God's appointing Adam to act as our representative, then there is nothing inconsistent either with the strictest justice or the amplest benevolence in our being accounted to have sinned in Adam. He vindicates the goodness of God in all his dispensations, and the unreasonableness of murmuring under them, 28-39. When dreaded evils assail and threaten to overwhelm, as the waves the barque on the Lake of Galilee, that voice, mightier than the noise of many waters, will reassure, and, finally, as we pass into the gate of eternity, our first utterance will be, ‘O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.’, ‘There is nothing like the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the whole world. 451; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 321. "Because his compassions fail not" (Lamentations 3:22). Chapter 3 The prophet, by enumerating his own severe trials, 1-20, and showing his trust in God, 21, encourages his people to the like resignation and trust in the Divine and never-failing mercy, 22-27. Lamentations 2:15-16 - Math. The waiting habit is as constantly commended to us as the seeking: (1) as the test of real earnestness, and (2) as its stimulant. 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(22) It is of the Lord’s mercies.—It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to which the mourner attains, being both preceded and followed by words of lamentation. The Lamentations are written in poetry. (Lamentations 3:22). Every morning of those dark days witnessed some new provision of God’s care. This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. v., p. 205; Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. III. Spiritual experience must be looked at as a whole. I. We are aware, of course, that this is disputed. Lamentations 4:2.—A. ... Acts 3:22… II. It is of the Lord's mercies— This is the Lord's mercy, that he hath not entirely consumed me; neither are his companions exhausted. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. We owe it to each other. This self-encouragement begins with Lamentations 3:22, inasmuch as the prophet strengthens his hope by a consideration of the infinite compassion of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. That is the very office of the family toward its young and inexperienced members. II. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. They are granted in an indirect manner, and in the discipline of graces more important than the gifts themselves. There is One who uses this very figure concerning His own Divine office. x., No. 3:39 (or Lam. "[25], This section through Lamentations 3:39 (or Lamentations 3:42) carries an expression of full assurance in God's unfailing mercies; and that such is found in Lamentations is indeed remarkable and carries its own rich consolations. Lamentations 3:22-23 – “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” This is such a comforting Bible verse as it not only declares God’s everlasting love for … There we are before the throne of God by anticipation, that throne before which the man found without the wedding-garment, when questioned why he has it not, is speechless. There is, first, the yoke of home. Matthew 11:29 - Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls . In self-examination each man is his own minister; and Christ, who is above, the only Priest. Aleph. These two arguments we will apply (1) to God's general dealings; (2) to His individual. Say it to thyself a thousand times. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview When you remember that man is a transgressor, not only by imputation, but by every positive and personal working of evil, surely the marvel must be, not that so much of wormwood should drug the cup of human life, but that so much of sweetness should still have been left. Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the LORD and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Since it is human nature to battle against self-worship, we are tempted to focus on the latter half of this verse which seems to promise that God will give us whatever our little hearts desire. CHAPTER (ELEGY) 3 La 3:1-66. Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. God‘s mercies are new every single morning. These psalms trace the upward ascent of our heart to Gods heart, but its not smooth sailing all the way. Lamentations 3 – “Great Is Your Faithfulness” “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. Harrison) It is not enough to be under the rule of others. Burton, Christian Life and Truth, p. 368. But if we attend to the context, we shall see that another sense is more suitable, even that the mercies of God were not consumed, and that his compassion’s had not failed The particle כי,ki, is inserted, but ought to be taken as an affirmative only, surely the mercies of God are not consumed; (183) and then, — surely his compassion’s have not failed. V. The self-examiner is a profitable attendant in the services of the church. God placed him not in a "sleeping hollow" to fatten in idleness; but in a large garden, to dress it and to keep it. There has been plenty of sorrow in every age, and in every land; but such another preacher and author as Jeremiah, with such a heart for sorrow, has never again been born. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. The work of self-examination has this advantage, that it is a real, personal act; and in religion, as has been well-observed, what a man does for himself is of much more avail than what others do or can do for him. 22 It is of the Lord ’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. II. (2) We are living men. Lamentations 1:21-22 and Lamentations 3:59-66 appear to be incongruent with Jeremiah's conviction that the Babylonians were functioning as God's instrument of judgment (Jeremiah 20:4-5). Dante comes next to Jeremiah, and we know that Jeremiah was that great exile’s favourite prophet. Lamentations 4:22.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.. Isaiah 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 27:39 Lamentations 3:8 - Math. (1) Hope: (a) The foundation of hope may be said to lie in desire. Life, when regarded as the seedtime of eternity, must appear to be so enormous in value that its sternest and most aggravated sorrows dwindle away into comparative nothingness. References: Lamentations 3:24.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. I. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. II. That we are yet on this side hell. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people, II. The command to seek the Lord and the command to wait on the Lord have the same general meaning, and the same general promises are given to each. Lamentations 3:28 - Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. Do you not sometimes come from the place of prayer with the guilty consciousness that you have not prayed. There is no greater evil committed by any of us than a practical forgetfulness of the common mercies of life: mercies, which because of their commonness, cease to be regarded as mercies. We forget, that although we did not ourselves elect Adam to act as our representative, we should, almost beyond doubt, have elected him, had it been put to our choice. But realizing the context of Psalm 37:4 will help us better comprehend what it means to … When we think of the future we always see it in a mass; but it will not come in a mass, but in multitudes of little bits. 1291. They are new: (1) because they were forfeited yesterday by our sins; (2) because new light is thrown upon them, and our hearts have been renewed to see them better; (3) because they can be dedicated anew, used for new services and new love; (4) because of the "night of heaviness," which endureth but for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. For there was an infinitely greater probability that Adam, with the fate of millions committed to his keeping, would have watched diligently against the assaults of temptation, than that any lonely individual of his descendants, left to obey for himself and disobey for himself, should have maintained his allegiance and preserved his fidelity. (2) It is good for a man to bear the yoke. Ver. We are come, by God's grace, to a new year. VI. ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’. This sentence was much in the mouth of that famous Maria Aegyptiaca, and should be in all our minds and mouths for a lenitive. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of Christian service. 579; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 325. 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. II. How can a complaint against justice be itself just. Full suddenly he draws out another stop in the organ, a stream of hope and comfort pours upon the ear (Lamentations 3:22-33).—It is as though he had caught the cadence of some angel minstrelsy. Psalm 89:2 ; Psalm 107:43 ; Isaiah 63:7 ), "that we are not utterly consumed," as Luther and similarly our English translators have excellently rendered תּמנוּ. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. That we are yet on this side hell. Because his compassions fail (a) not.] (22) It is of the Lord’s mercies.—It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to which the mourner attains, being both preceded and followed by words of lamentation. Self-examination is a rehearsing of the judgment day, for it is a having the soul up before conscience, and conscience is God's voice in the heart. because his compassions fail not; or, "his tender mercies"F24רחמו "miserationes ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. Lamentations 3:21-23. and so the Septuagint, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have not left me"; and to the same sense the Syriac version is, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have no end", and Aben Ezra's note on the text is almost in the same words, "for there is no end to the mercies of God;'. Great is thy faithfulness. V. We owe this appeal to God's provision for our full reconciliation to Himself. It is good for us all to have to work for our bread. But in this passage they are for once combined; their combination suggesting a certain difference between them and the perfection of devotion which results from their union. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). (2) "Quiet waiting," or patience. It is the Lord who reigns in all circumstances, and He reigns over them. (1) He tells us the goodness of waiting: it is good for a man to wait. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people (Lamentations 3:1-21).—His description of the miseries through which they were passing is very pitiful—the wrinkled skin, the broken bones, the darkness as of the grave, the lofty walls that encompassed them, the penetration of the sharp arrows into their flesh, the derision of the people, the grit of the coarse flour that broke his teeth, the wormwood and the gall of his cup. Generally in the combination of these two terms, each expresses the perfection of all prayer as it is either the active seeking of God or the passive waiting for Him; in other words, what man does and what he must expect God to do in the whole business of devotion. There is also an inherent assurance here that the cry for mercy will be heard. The five chapters form five stanzas of one elegy over Zion's fall. 2:1-12, all the woes are bemoaned as being God's work, and His alone; and Lam. There are times when we get excited about Psalm 23, and say Amen. Though He may have caused grief, yet is His compassion in proportion to the multitude of His mercies. And they were alike in this also, that, just because of their combined strength, and sternness, and sensibility, no man in their day sympathised with them. Verse 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; after all Nehemiah 9:32; Ezekiel 24:13,14; Galatians 3:4 hast punished, etc Heb. One side is very dark and full of sadness, sharply inclined towards despair; the other is brighter than the summer morning, tuneful, sunned with all the lustre of saintly hope. But the home must at last send out its sons and its daughters into a rougher school of experience, and the half-way house on this journey is first the school with its discipline, and then the more special training for a particular profession or trade. (Lamentations 3:22-23) Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. It is not because God had not power enough utterly to have consumed us, nor because we had not guilt enough to have provoked his justice to have put an end to our lives, as well as to the lives of many thousands of our countrymen, but it is merely from the Lord’s free love and pity to us in our miseries. Lamentations 3:22 - חסדי יהוה כי לא־תמנו כי לא־כלו רחמיו׃ - The LORD'S indeed never cease, For His compassions... - Interlinear Study Bible III. Lamentations 3:49 - My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, on StudyLight.org Coffman Commentaries on the Bible "Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission. Each day will have a duty, a trial, a temptation, a strength, a joy. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview III. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of subjection to authority. It differs from desire in this, that desire pursues many things that can never be objects of hope to us. It was true of the prophet, that he died not in prison, or in the dungeon; and of the people of the Jews, who though many of them perished by the sword, famine, and pestilence, yet God did not make a full end of them, according to his gracious promise, Jeremiah 30:11; but left them a seed, a remnant, from whence the Messiah, the mercy promised, should come, and to which it was owing they were not utterly cut off for their sins: nor are any of the Lord's special people ever consumed; their estates may be consumed, and so may their bodies by wasting diseases, and at last by death; but not their souls, not only as to their being, but as to their well being, here and hereafter; though their peace, joy, and comfort, may be gone for a while, through temptation, desertion, and the prevalence of corruption; and they may be in declining circumstances, as to the exercise of grace, yet the principle itself can never be lost; faith, hope, and love, will abide; nor can they eternally perish, or be punished with an everlasting destruction: all which is to be ascribed not to their own strength to preserve themselves, nor to any want of desert in them to be destroyed, or of power in God to consume them; but to his "mercies" and "goodnesses", the multitude of them; for there is an abundance of mercy, grace, and goodness in God, and various are the instances of it; as in the choice of his people to grace and glory; in the covenant of grace, and the blessings of it they are interested in; in redemption by Christ; in regeneration by his Spirit; in the forgiveness of their sins; and in their complete salvation; which are all so many reasons why they are not, and shall not be, consumed. — Ed. 22.We are not consumed — “We,” here, takes the place of I without any marked transition, suggesting, as above intimated, that the prophet in what goes before identifies himself with the people. C. J. Vaughan, Pulpit Analyst, vol. And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me? "This is the focal point of the whole book; it is a central core of hope of restoration for Israel in God's own good time; and there is a symmetry in the book that highlights this central core. There are two things which often divert men from appealing to God. The first thing is to be a Christian; the next thing is to avow it. VI. Click the Bible to visit the new StudyLight.org being developed!! It is a mercy which no money can buy, which no rank can command. We live not upon old mercies, but upon new ones fresh from the Divine hand, fresh from the Divine heart. He gives counsel from the wisdom he has learned, so that the nation could learn from it. (c) There is a third element to be added to make our hope strong—that of imagination. VIII. 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all … Recent Articles. How easy and how common it is to discourse in a querulous and reproachful strain, on the fact of our being made to suffer for a forefather's transgressions, and on the fact of our deriving a polluted nature from guilt in which personally we took not any share. Psalm 23 is a great Psalm to read and be comforted. VII. It is when pain or overwork chases sleep away, when he lies upon his bed and waits for its coming but it comes not, when he begins to dread the nights lest he should have the same wretched experiences again and again—a fear which prepares the way for its own fulfilment—it is then that he begins to learn what is meant by sleep, and what high rank it takes among the common mercies of life. Here is the danger of forms and modes. Self-examination is a private work. We wish it were, but its not. They equip us, they give point and definiteness to new intention, they offer fresh feelings, they take us out of grooves, they stir up in us our immortality. IT is in affliction chiefly that the children of God attain to any considerable eminence in religion. That means that when we run to Him and ask for forgiveness, He is faithful If there was nothing unjust in God's appointing Adam to act as our representative, then there is nothing inconsistent either with the strictest justice or the amplest benevolence in our being accounted to have sinned in Adam. He vindicates the goodness of God in all his dispensations, and the unreasonableness of murmuring under them, 28-39. When dreaded evils assail and threaten to overwhelm, as the waves the barque on the Lake of Galilee, that voice, mightier than the noise of many waters, will reassure, and, finally, as we pass into the gate of eternity, our first utterance will be, ‘O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.’, ‘There is nothing like the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the whole world. 451; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 321. "Because his compassions fail not" (Lamentations 3:22). Chapter 3 The prophet, by enumerating his own severe trials, 1-20, and showing his trust in God, 21, encourages his people to the like resignation and trust in the Divine and never-failing mercy, 22-27. Lamentations 2:15-16 - Math. The waiting habit is as constantly commended to us as the seeking: (1) as the test of real earnestness, and (2) as its stimulant. 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The possession of reason should stir us up to daily thanksgiving to Him whose mercies are new to us every morning. I. I. F25 This section through Lam. The year will grow stale, but these will always sustain their vigour and elasticity. viii., No. 15. All communion with God requires this. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth—the yoke of home. Lamentations 2: Reason for God's Wrath III. Throughout the Scriptures the two terms, seeking and waiting, run parallel as describing prayer, earnest and effectual prayer, in all its acts and offices. Hope differs from faith in this, that we believe in many things in regard to which we do not hope. "A man for the punishment of his sins." Themes: Mourning over Jerusalem’s destruction; confession of sin and acknowledgment of God’s justice; hope in God’s future restoration But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (2) The one is needful to raise the other to its full strength. new. And every morning, as we arise, we shall wake to meet new mercies, newer than the dawn. And whatever the woe and bitterness of our portion, wherefore should living men complain? We can only hope for that which is felt to be possible and reasonable. 27:46 Lamentations 3:19 - Math. “In the morning,” that is, after a night of affliction. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed - Being thus humbled, and seeing himself and his sinfulness in a proper point of view, he finds that God, instead of dealing with him in judgment, has dealt with him in mercy; and that though the affliction was excessive, yet it seas less than his iniquity deserved. Lamentations 3:22-23 His Faithfulness Never Ends This is a great verse that we can also apply to parenting. So we must take the night with the morning, if we would have the complete day. 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia: (). Home > Study Desk. III. Read verse in … (It is) חסדי, "the mercies of God," i.e., proofs of His mercy (cf. (a) It is good now in the depth of the soul—in the conscious assurance that it is better to rest in the hardest of God's ways than to wander at will in our own. If so, complaint is at once removed by the second consideration which our text suggests. (22) It is of the Lord’s mercies.—It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to which the mourner attains, being both preceded and followed by words of lamentation. The Lamentations are written in poetry. (Lamentations 3:22). Every morning of those dark days witnessed some new provision of God’s care. This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. v., p. 205; Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. III. Spiritual experience must be looked at as a whole. I. We are aware, of course, that this is disputed. Lamentations 4:2.—A. ... Acts 3:22… II. It is of the Lord's mercies— This is the Lord's mercy, that he hath not entirely consumed me; neither are his companions exhausted. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. We owe it to each other. This self-encouragement begins with Lamentations 3:22, inasmuch as the prophet strengthens his hope by a consideration of the infinite compassion of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. That is the very office of the family toward its young and inexperienced members. II. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. They are granted in an indirect manner, and in the discipline of graces more important than the gifts themselves. There is One who uses this very figure concerning His own Divine office. x., No. 3:39 (or Lam. "[25], This section through Lamentations 3:39 (or Lamentations 3:42) carries an expression of full assurance in God's unfailing mercies; and that such is found in Lamentations is indeed remarkable and carries its own rich consolations. Lamentations 3:22-23 – “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” This is such a comforting Bible verse as it not only declares God’s everlasting love for … There we are before the throne of God by anticipation, that throne before which the man found without the wedding-garment, when questioned why he has it not, is speechless. There is, first, the yoke of home. Matthew 11:29 - Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls . In self-examination each man is his own minister; and Christ, who is above, the only Priest. Aleph. These two arguments we will apply (1) to God's general dealings; (2) to His individual. Say it to thyself a thousand times. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview When you remember that man is a transgressor, not only by imputation, but by every positive and personal working of evil, surely the marvel must be, not that so much of wormwood should drug the cup of human life, but that so much of sweetness should still have been left. Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the LORD and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Since it is human nature to battle against self-worship, we are tempted to focus on the latter half of this verse which seems to promise that God will give us whatever our little hearts desire. CHAPTER (ELEGY) 3 La 3:1-66. Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. God‘s mercies are new every single morning. These psalms trace the upward ascent of our heart to Gods heart, but its not smooth sailing all the way. Lamentations 3 – “Great Is Your Faithfulness” “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. Harrison) It is not enough to be under the rule of others. Burton, Christian Life and Truth, p. 368. But if we attend to the context, we shall see that another sense is more suitable, even that the mercies of God were not consumed, and that his compassion’s had not failed The particle כי,ki, is inserted, but ought to be taken as an affirmative only, surely the mercies of God are not consumed; (183) and then, — surely his compassion’s have not failed. V. The self-examiner is a profitable attendant in the services of the church. God placed him not in a "sleeping hollow" to fatten in idleness; but in a large garden, to dress it and to keep it. There has been plenty of sorrow in every age, and in every land; but such another preacher and author as Jeremiah, with such a heart for sorrow, has never again been born. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. The work of self-examination has this advantage, that it is a real, personal act; and in religion, as has been well-observed, what a man does for himself is of much more avail than what others do or can do for him. 22 It is of the Lord ’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. II. (2) We are living men. Lamentations 1:21-22 and Lamentations 3:59-66 appear to be incongruent with Jeremiah's conviction that the Babylonians were functioning as God's instrument of judgment (Jeremiah 20:4-5). Dante comes next to Jeremiah, and we know that Jeremiah was that great exile’s favourite prophet. Lamentations 4:22.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.. Isaiah 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 27:39 Lamentations 3:8 - Math. (1) Hope: (a) The foundation of hope may be said to lie in desire. Life, when regarded as the seedtime of eternity, must appear to be so enormous in value that its sternest and most aggravated sorrows dwindle away into comparative nothingness. References: Lamentations 3:24.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. I. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. II. That we are yet on this side hell. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people, II. The command to seek the Lord and the command to wait on the Lord have the same general meaning, and the same general promises are given to each. Lamentations 3:28 - Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. Do you not sometimes come from the place of prayer with the guilty consciousness that you have not prayed. There is no greater evil committed by any of us than a practical forgetfulness of the common mercies of life: mercies, which because of their commonness, cease to be regarded as mercies. We forget, that although we did not ourselves elect Adam to act as our representative, we should, almost beyond doubt, have elected him, had it been put to our choice. But realizing the context of Psalm 37:4 will help us better comprehend what it means to … When we think of the future we always see it in a mass; but it will not come in a mass, but in multitudes of little bits. 1291. They are new: (1) because they were forfeited yesterday by our sins; (2) because new light is thrown upon them, and our hearts have been renewed to see them better; (3) because they can be dedicated anew, used for new services and new love; (4) because of the "night of heaviness," which endureth but for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. For there was an infinitely greater probability that Adam, with the fate of millions committed to his keeping, would have watched diligently against the assaults of temptation, than that any lonely individual of his descendants, left to obey for himself and disobey for himself, should have maintained his allegiance and preserved his fidelity. (2) It is good for a man to bear the yoke. Ver. We are come, by God's grace, to a new year. VI. ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’. This sentence was much in the mouth of that famous Maria Aegyptiaca, and should be in all our minds and mouths for a lenitive. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of Christian service. 579; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 325. 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. II. How can a complaint against justice be itself just. Full suddenly he draws out another stop in the organ, a stream of hope and comfort pours upon the ear (Lamentations 3:22-33).—It is as though he had caught the cadence of some angel minstrelsy. Psalm 89:2 ; Psalm 107:43 ; Isaiah 63:7 ), "that we are not utterly consumed," as Luther and similarly our English translators have excellently rendered תּמנוּ. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. That we are yet on this side hell. Because his compassions fail (a) not.] (22) It is of the Lord’s mercies.—It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which form its centre, and that of the whole book, represent the highest point of trust to which the mourner attains, being both preceded and followed by words of lamentation. Self-examination is a rehearsing of the judgment day, for it is a having the soul up before conscience, and conscience is God's voice in the heart. because his compassions fail not; or, "his tender mercies"F24רחמו "miserationes ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. Lamentations 3:21-23. and so the Septuagint, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have not left me"; and to the same sense the Syriac version is, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have no end", and Aben Ezra's note on the text is almost in the same words, "for there is no end to the mercies of God;'. Great is thy faithfulness. V. We owe this appeal to God's provision for our full reconciliation to Himself. It is good for us all to have to work for our bread. But in this passage they are for once combined; their combination suggesting a certain difference between them and the perfection of devotion which results from their union. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). (2) "Quiet waiting," or patience. It is the Lord who reigns in all circumstances, and He reigns over them. (1) He tells us the goodness of waiting: it is good for a man to wait. Speaking for himself, the prophet personifies his people (Lamentations 3:1-21).—His description of the miseries through which they were passing is very pitiful—the wrinkled skin, the broken bones, the darkness as of the grave, the lofty walls that encompassed them, the penetration of the sharp arrows into their flesh, the derision of the people, the grit of the coarse flour that broke his teeth, the wormwood and the gall of his cup. Generally in the combination of these two terms, each expresses the perfection of all prayer as it is either the active seeking of God or the passive waiting for Him; in other words, what man does and what he must expect God to do in the whole business of devotion. There is also an inherent assurance here that the cry for mercy will be heard. The five chapters form five stanzas of one elegy over Zion's fall. 2:1-12, all the woes are bemoaned as being God's work, and His alone; and Lam. There are times when we get excited about Psalm 23, and say Amen. Though He may have caused grief, yet is His compassion in proportion to the multitude of His mercies. And they were alike in this also, that, just because of their combined strength, and sternness, and sensibility, no man in their day sympathised with them. Verse 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; after all Nehemiah 9:32; Ezekiel 24:13,14; Galatians 3:4 hast punished, etc Heb. One side is very dark and full of sadness, sharply inclined towards despair; the other is brighter than the summer morning, tuneful, sunned with all the lustre of saintly hope. But the home must at last send out its sons and its daughters into a rougher school of experience, and the half-way house on this journey is first the school with its discipline, and then the more special training for a particular profession or trade. (Lamentations 3:22-23) Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. It is not because God had not power enough utterly to have consumed us, nor because we had not guilt enough to have provoked his justice to have put an end to our lives, as well as to the lives of many thousands of our countrymen, but it is merely from the Lord’s free love and pity to us in our miseries. Lamentations 3:22 - חסדי יהוה כי לא־תמנו כי לא־כלו רחמיו׃ - The LORD'S indeed never cease, For His compassions... - Interlinear Study Bible III. Lamentations 3:49 - My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, on StudyLight.org Coffman Commentaries on the Bible "Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission. Each day will have a duty, a trial, a temptation, a strength, a joy. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview III. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of subjection to authority. It differs from desire in this, that desire pursues many things that can never be objects of hope to us. It was true of the prophet, that he died not in prison, or in the dungeon; and of the people of the Jews, who though many of them perished by the sword, famine, and pestilence, yet God did not make a full end of them, according to his gracious promise, Jeremiah 30:11; but left them a seed, a remnant, from whence the Messiah, the mercy promised, should come, and to which it was owing they were not utterly cut off for their sins: nor are any of the Lord's special people ever consumed; their estates may be consumed, and so may their bodies by wasting diseases, and at last by death; but not their souls, not only as to their being, but as to their well being, here and hereafter; though their peace, joy, and comfort, may be gone for a while, through temptation, desertion, and the prevalence of corruption; and they may be in declining circumstances, as to the exercise of grace, yet the principle itself can never be lost; faith, hope, and love, will abide; nor can they eternally perish, or be punished with an everlasting destruction: all which is to be ascribed not to their own strength to preserve themselves, nor to any want of desert in them to be destroyed, or of power in God to consume them; but to his "mercies" and "goodnesses", the multitude of them; for there is an abundance of mercy, grace, and goodness in God, and various are the instances of it; as in the choice of his people to grace and glory; in the covenant of grace, and the blessings of it they are interested in; in redemption by Christ; in regeneration by his Spirit; in the forgiveness of their sins; and in their complete salvation; which are all so many reasons why they are not, and shall not be, consumed. — Ed. 22.We are not consumed — “We,” here, takes the place of I without any marked transition, suggesting, as above intimated, that the prophet in what goes before identifies himself with the people. C. J. Vaughan, Pulpit Analyst, vol. And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me? "This is the focal point of the whole book; it is a central core of hope of restoration for Israel in God's own good time; and there is a symmetry in the book that highlights this central core. There are two things which often divert men from appealing to God. The first thing is to be a Christian; the next thing is to avow it. VI. Click the Bible to visit the new StudyLight.org being developed!! It is a mercy which no money can buy, which no rank can command. We live not upon old mercies, but upon new ones fresh from the Divine hand, fresh from the Divine heart. He gives counsel from the wisdom he has learned, so that the nation could learn from it. (c) There is a third element to be added to make our hope strong—that of imagination. VIII. 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all … Recent Articles. How easy and how common it is to discourse in a querulous and reproachful strain, on the fact of our being made to suffer for a forefather's transgressions, and on the fact of our deriving a polluted nature from guilt in which personally we took not any share. Psalm 23 is a great Psalm to read and be comforted. VII. It is when pain or overwork chases sleep away, when he lies upon his bed and waits for its coming but it comes not, when he begins to dread the nights lest he should have the same wretched experiences again and again—a fear which prepares the way for its own fulfilment—it is then that he begins to learn what is meant by sleep, and what high rank it takes among the common mercies of life. Here is the danger of forms and modes. Self-examination is a private work. We wish it were, but its not. They equip us, they give point and definiteness to new intention, they offer fresh feelings, they take us out of grooves, they stir up in us our immortality. IT is in affliction chiefly that the children of God attain to any considerable eminence in religion. That means that when we run to Him and ask for forgiveness, He is faithful If there was nothing unjust in God's appointing Adam to act as our representative, then there is nothing inconsistent either with the strictest justice or the amplest benevolence in our being accounted to have sinned in Adam. He vindicates the goodness of God in all his dispensations, and the unreasonableness of murmuring under them, 28-39. When dreaded evils assail and threaten to overwhelm, as the waves the barque on the Lake of Galilee, that voice, mightier than the noise of many waters, will reassure, and, finally, as we pass into the gate of eternity, our first utterance will be, ‘O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.’, ‘There is nothing like the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the whole world. 451; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 321. "Because his compassions fail not" (Lamentations 3:22). Chapter 3 The prophet, by enumerating his own severe trials, 1-20, and showing his trust in God, 21, encourages his people to the like resignation and trust in the Divine and never-failing mercy, 22-27. Lamentations 2:15-16 - Math. The waiting habit is as constantly commended to us as the seeking: (1) as the test of real earnestness, and (2) as its stimulant. 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