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Text -- Lamentations 3:42 (NET)

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3:42 “We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Lam 3:42 - -- Thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our sins.

Thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our sins.

JFB: Lam 3:40-42 - -- Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity.

Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity.

JFB: Lam 3:40-42 - -- As opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23-24).

As opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23-24).

JFB: Lam 3:42 - -- The Babylonian captivity had not yet ended.

The Babylonian captivity had not yet ended.

Calvin: Lam 3:42 - -- The faithful do not here expostulate with God, but on the contrary acknowledge that God’s severity was just. That God then had dealt with them seve...

The faithful do not here expostulate with God, but on the contrary acknowledge that God’s severity was just. That God then had dealt with them severely, they ascribe to their own sins, This is the substance of what is said.

We hence learn that an ingenuous confession ever accompanies repentance, as also Paul teaches us, (2Co 7:11.) For when a sinner is either secure or tries to cover his wickedness, and flatters himself, as we see but a few who willingly humble themselves before God, he contracts the hardness of obstinacy. For this reason the Prophet requires confession; nay, he suggests here the words suitable to be used, when we desire to obtain pardon from God. We have done wickedly, he says, and have been rebellious The pronoun, we, is here emphatical, as though the faithful had taken on themselves the blame of all the evils, which the greater part ever sought to disown. 195

Here then the Prophet shews that there is no other way of being reconciled to God, than by confessing ourselves to be the authors of all our evils; and he also teaches us, that it is an evidence of true repentance, when we do not allege vain pretences as it is commonly done, nor flatter ourselves, but confess that we are guilty. He now shows that guilt ought by no means to be extenuated, so that our confession may be real and complete: but in this respect the world trifle with God. The most wicked are, indeed, ashamed to deny that they are sinners; but as they are forced to make some kind of confession, this they do lightly; and it seems an extorted confession, and is therefore jejune, or at least not complete. But the Prophet here shews that they who seek to be reconciled to God, ought not only in words to acknowledge and confess their guilt, but also ingenuously to open their hearts. Hence he connects perverseness with sin: as though he had said, “We have not sinned simply or in one way, but we have exasperated God himself; and by sinning in many ways and constantly, we have provoked him against us.” He says, in short, that there is then an access open to us to obtain favor, when we do not murmur against God nor contend with him as though he had dealt severely with us, but when we confess that he has been hard and rigid with us, because he had a reason to be so on account of our sins and wickedness. He adds, —

TSK: Lam 3:42 - -- transgressed : Lam 1:18, Lam 5:16; Neh 9:26; Job 33:27, Job 33:28; Jer 3:13; Dan 9:5-14; Luk 15:18, Luk 15:19 thou : 2Ki 24:4; Jer 5:7, Jer 5:8; Eze 2...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Lam 3:40-42 - -- The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them. Lam 3:40 And turn again to the Lord - Or, "and return to Yahweh."The pre...

The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them.

Lam 3:40

And turn again to the Lord - Or, "and return to Yahweh."The prep. (to) in the Hebrew implies not half way, but the whole.

Lam 3:41

Literally, "Let us lift up our heart unto our hands unto God in heaven;"as if the heart first lifted up the hands, and then with them mounted up in prayer to God. In real prayer the outward expression is caused by the emotion stirring within.

Poole: Lam 3:42 - -- The prophet doth not dictate words, but sense to them, teaching them the matter of their prayer; first, by way of confession. Sin is called a trans...

The prophet doth not dictate words, but sense to them, teaching them the matter of their prayer; first, by way of confession. Sin is called a transgression , because it is going aside from the way of God’ s precepts; it is called rebellion , because it is an act contrary to that allegiance and duty which we owe unto God, and the covenant we have made with him. By pardoning here is meant the discharge of the guilty persons from the temporal punishment due for sin (as it is often taken in Scripture); so it signifies, thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our sins.

Haydock: Lam 3:42 - -- Inexorable. Hebrew and Septuagint, "Thou hast not shewn pity." (Haydock)

Inexorable. Hebrew and Septuagint, "Thou hast not shewn pity." (Haydock)

Gill: Lam 3:42 - -- We have transgressed, and have rebelled,.... Here begins the prayer, the sense of which is directed to, though the words are not dictated; and it begi...

We have transgressed, and have rebelled,.... Here begins the prayer, the sense of which is directed to, though the words are not dictated; and it begins with confession of sin, as prayer should, especially when in such circumstances as the people of the Jews now were; and with confession of it, as a transgression of the law of God; and as rebellion against him, as every sin is, a breach of his law, a contempt of his authority, and a trampling under foot his legislative power, and an act of hostility against him; and so downright rebellion; every sin being an overt act of that kind; and which is aggravated by the favours before acknowledged to have been received:

thou hast not pardoned; as they apprehended; they had not the discovery and application of pardoning grace and mercy; otherwise pardon of sin with God is past, and includes all sin present and future, as well as past; but temporal afflictions being upon them, they concluded their sins were not pardoned; pardon of sin in Scripture often signifying the removal of such afflictions.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 3:42 The Heb emphasiszes the pronoun “You – you have not forgiven.” Given the contrast with the preceding, it means “For your part,...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Lam 3:1-66 - --1 The prophet bewails his own calamities.22 By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope.37 He acknowledges God's justice.55 He prays for deliverance,...

MHCC: Lam 3:42-54 - --The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued wai...

Matthew Henry: Lam 3:42-54 - -- It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as i...

Keil-Delitzsch: Lam 3:40-42 - -- Confession of sins, and complaint against the cruelty of enemies, as well as over the deep misery into which all the people have sunk. Lam 3:40-42. ...

Constable: Lam 3:1-66 - --III. The prophet's response to divine judgment (the third lament) ch. 3 As mentioned previously, this lament is ...

Constable: Lam 3:41-66 - --C. Jeremiah's prayer 3:41-66 The following section of the lament falls into two parts marked by Jeremiah's use of the plural (vv. 41-47) and singular ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Lamentations (Book Introduction) In the Hebrew Bible these Elegies of Jeremiah, five in number, are placed among the Chetuvim, or "Holy Writings" ("the Psalms," &c., Luk 24:44), betwe...

JFB: Lamentations (Outline) THE SAD CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM, THE HOPE OF RESTORATION, AND THE RETRIBUTION AWAITING IDUMEA FOR JOINING BABYLON AGAINST JUDEA. (Lam. 4:1-22) EPIPHONEM...

TSK: Lamentations 3 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Lam 3:1, The prophet bewails his own calamities; Lam 3:22, By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope; Lam 3:37, He acknowledges God’...

Poole: Lamentations (Book Introduction) LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH THE ARGUMENT This book in Greek, Latin, and English hath its name from the subject matter of it, which is lamentation; s...

Poole: Lamentations 3 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 3 The faithful bewail their misery and contempt, Lam 3:1-21 . They nourish their hope by consideration of the justice, providence, and merc...

MHCC: Lamentations (Book Introduction) It is evident that Jeremiah was the author of the Lamentations which bear his name. The book was not written till after the destruction of Jerusalem b...

MHCC: Lamentations 3 (Chapter Introduction) The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies.

Matthew Henry: Lamentations (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Lamentations of Jeremiah Since what Solomon says, though contrary to the common opinion of the worl...

Matthew Henry: Lamentations 3 (Chapter Introduction) 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, t...

Constable: Lamentations (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Position The English title of this book comes from the Talmud (...

Constable: Lamentations (Outline) Outline I. The destruction and misery of Jerusalem (the first lament) ch. 1 A. An observer's...

Constable: Lamentations Lamentations Bibliography Archer, Gleason L., Jr. A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Revised ed. Chicago: ...

Haydock: Lamentations (Book Introduction) THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS. INTRODUCTION. In these Jeremias laments in a most pathetic manner the miseries of his people, and the destructio...

Gill: Lamentations (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS This book very properly follows the prophecy of Jeremiah, not only because wrote by him, but because of the subject ma...

Gill: Lamentations 3 (Chapter Introduction) 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...

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