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3:31 כ(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever . 3:32 Though he causes us grief , he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness . 3:33 For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people . 3:34 ל(Lamed) To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners , 3:35 to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High , 3:36 to defraud a person in a lawsuit – the Lord does not approve of such things! 3:37 מ(Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it? 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing ? 3:39 Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins ? 3:40 נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways , and let us return to the Lord . 3:41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven : 3:42 “We have blatantly rebelled ; you have not forgiven .” 3:43 ס(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy . 3:44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through . 3:45 You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations . 3:46 פ(Pe) All our enemies have gloated over us; 3:47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction . 3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed . 3:49 ע(Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop ; there will be no break 3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened. 3:51 What my eyes see grieves me– all the suffering of the daughters in my city . 3:52 צ(Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird . 3:53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me. 3:54 The waters closed over my head ; I thought I was about to die . 3:55 ק(Qof) I have called on your name , O Lord , from the deepest pit . 3:56 You heard my plea : “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief !” 3:57 You came near on the day I called to you; you said , “Do not fear !” 3:58 ר(Resh) O Lord , you championed my cause , you redeemed my life . 3:59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord ; pronounce judgment on my behalf! 3:60 You have seen all their vengeance , all their plots against me. 3:61 ש(Sin/Shin) You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me . 3:62 My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long. 3:63 Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs . 3:64 ת(Tav) Pay them back what they deserve , O Lord , according to what they have done . 3:65 Give them a distraught heart ; may your curse be on them ! 3:66 Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven .

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  • Ruth carried out Naomi's instructions exactly, further demonstrating her loyal love to her mother-in-law, and encouraged Boaz to pursue the possibility of marriage (vv. 6-9)."Note that the threshingfloor was a public place an...
  • We can understand why Mordecai reacted to Haman's decree so strongly (v. 1). Undoubtedly he felt personally responsible for this decree (cf. 3:2-5). However we should not interpret Mordecai's actions in verse 1 as a sign of g...
  • It becomes clear in this stanza of the song that the Servant's sufferings were not His own fault, as onlookers thought. They were for the sins of humankind and resulted in our healing. Furthermore, He would not merely suffer ...
  • This book does not identify its writer. The common view that Jeremiah wrote it rests on a preface in the Greek Septuagint, which the Latin Vulgate adopted and elaborated on. The Septuagint version of Lamentations begins, "And...
  • The book consists of five laments (funeral or mourning songs, elegies). All but the third of these describe the Babylonians' destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and its aftermath. Each chapter exhibits its own special qualit...
  • There are two books in the Old Testament that deal primarily with the problem of suffering. Job treats the problem of personalsuffering, and Lamentations deals with the problem of nationalsuffering. Both books present the pro...
  • The church at the beginning of the twenty-first century is very similar to Judah at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. Our times are very similar to Jeremiah's times. We minister in a cultural context that is remarkably ...
  • I. The destruction and misery of Jerusalem (the first lament) ch. 1A. An observer's sorrow over Jerusalem's condition 1:1-11B. Jerusalem's sorrow over her own condition 1:12-22II. The divine punishment of Jerusalem (the secon...
  • Jeremiah first viewed Jerusalem's destruction as an outsider looking in. Verses 1-7 describe the extent of the desolation and verses 8-11 its cause.1:1 Jeremiah bewailed the abandoned city of Jerusalem that had once been so g...
  • As mentioned previously, this lament is an acrostic in triplets; the same succeeding Hebrew consonant begins three verses instead of just one, as in the previous chapters. The verses are about one third as long as most of tho...
  • 3:19 Jeremiah prayed that the Lord would remember his affliction and bitterness (cf. Job 13:15).3:20-21 He himself remembered something that gave him hope.3:22 The prophet remembered that the Lord's loyal love (Heb. hesed) ne...
  • The following section of the lament falls into two parts marked by Jeremiah's use of the plural (vv. 41-47) and singular personal pronouns (vv. 48-66). In the first part he called on the Judahites to confess their sins to God...
  • This poem, like the one in chapter 3, contains verses of only two lines each. It is the only non-acrostic chapter in the book, though like chapters 1, 2, and 4, it consists of 22 verses. The doleful qinahmeter is also absent ...
  • 5:1 Jeremiah called on Yahweh to remember the calamity that had befallen His people and to consider the reproach in which they now lived (cf. 3:34-36). The humbled condition of the Judahites reflected poorly on the Lord becau...
  • 4:1-2 The Lord instructed Ezekiel to construct a model of Jerusalem under siege. He was to build a model of the city using a clay brick (Heb. lebenah) to represent Jerusalem. The Hebrew word for "brick"describes both clay tab...
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