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Lamentations
Lamentations
1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction and because
of great servitude. She dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest. All
her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Lamentations
1:16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with
water because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations
2:19 Arise, cry out in the night. In the beginning of the
watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children that
faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations
3:1-5 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely
against me is he turned. He turns his hand against me all the day. My flesh
and my skin has he made old. He hath broken my bones. He has built against
me and compassed me with gall
and travail.
Lamentations
3:6 He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations
3:7 He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out. He has made my chain
heavy.
Lamentations
3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations
3:9-16 He has inclosed my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths
crooked. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret
places. He has turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces. He has made
me desolate. He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. He
has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. I was a derision
to all my people and their song all the day. He has filled me with bitterness
and made me drunken with wormwood.
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones and covered me with ashes.
Lamentations
3:17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations
3:18,19 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD
in remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations
3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope..(*)
Lamentations
3:22 It is of the
LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail
not.
God
sustains us:.Nehemiah
9:19-21.
Lamentations
3:23 They are new
every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations
3:24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore will I hope in
him.
Lamentations
3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait.(original
means to look forward to something, to wait in anticipation
of something, such as, do good and good comes; one way to wait is to take
10 minutes, for
what?).for him, to the soul
that seeks him.
A
reason why it may be necessary to wait.
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man hopes and
quietly waits of the LORD.
Lamentations
3:26 It is good that a man hopes and quietly waits.(original
for 'quietly waits' is 'and be in silence').for
the
salvation.(or 'deliverance';
we need saving from what may be bothering us and that comes from being
in the silence of meditation
where the answer comes in
and through you).of the LORD..(*)
Lamentations
3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Bear
the yoke of inculcating
good habits.
Lamentations
3:28 He sits alone and
keeps silence because he has borne
it upon him.(taken
responsibility).
Lamentations
3:29 He puts his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope.
Feeling
pretty down in the mouth.
Lamentations
3:30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him. He is filled full with
reproach. .(Matthew
5:39)
Lamentations
3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
Lamentations
3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according
to the multitude of his mercies.
Closer
to the original.'Affliction,
grief and sufferings in one's life abundantly
bring the deep love and compassion
and kindness of God';
to balance the sufferings..(example)
Lamentations
3:33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations
3:34-36 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, To
turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, To subvert
a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.
Lamentations
3:37 Who is he that says and it comes to pass, when the Lord commanded
it not?
Nothing,
absolutely nothing, occurs in our world and the entire universe that God
is not aware of and behind (*),
even the evil:.Isaiah
45:7,21,22.
Lamentations
3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?.(the
Creator is responsible
for both)
Lamentations
3:39-41 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment
of his sins?
Lamentations
4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Lamentations
5:1-3 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us. Consider and behold our
reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We are orphans.(original
'fatherless').and fatherless.(original
'have nothing'). Our mothers are as widows.(no
help; no dad, no one else to help care for the family).
Lamentations
5:4 We have drunken our water for money.(Barnes
Notes:.'comes
to us for price'; the rendering
of the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm
of the original; the bitterness of the complaint
lies in this, that it was their own property which they had to buy.{like
today, where the land stolen by those in control, is then sold back to
you when you need it for a house for your family};
Clarke's
Commentary: "They were now so lowly reduced by servitude,
that they were obliged
to pay dearly for those things which formerly were common
and of no price".{crown
land, government land, taken from men and women of the nation}).
Our wood is sold unto us.(our
fuel, our gas, our hydro, etc., all natural resources God gave to all,
now merchandised
for the profit of a few at the expense of the rest of us; a crime against
humanity).
Lamentations
5:5-9 Our necks are under persecution. We labour and have no rest.(Haggai
1:6). We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to
the Assyrians.(or
whomever may be like that today and as those
of old, those in control viewed others as a threat, so they must be
managed according to rules {policies enforced by police, the policy enforcers}
set down by the controlling cabal),
to be satisfied with bread.(we
work hard just to have some sustenance).
Our fathers have sinned.(those
who set up ruinous practices of greed).and
are not.(not
around anymore).and we have
borne their iniquities.(we
continue to suffer with their legacy).
Servants have ruled over us.(as
today, those elected to serve mankind are often, but not always, self-serving
once elected). There is none that does deliver us out of
their hand.(everyone
just goes along with it all because no one cares for tomorrow; look at
the legacy of
debt being left to our grandchildren). We get our bread with
the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Today,
it's at risk to acquire the necessities of living for many having to get
to work with a vehicle needing fixing that they can't all the time afford
to repair and pay fees on so it can be driven on roads; firemen, police
and the like, miners, pilots, truck drivers, welders, steel riggers, window
washers, etc., are at risk in their jobs trying to maintain a sane society
in an unsane world.
Lamentations
5:10-13 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the cities of Judah. Princes
are hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honoured. They
took the young men to grind.(to
work hard).and the children
fell under the wood.(they
couldn't keep up with hard work).
Lamentations
5:14,15 The elders have ceased from the gate.(they
had no joy in sharing their wisdom), the young men from their
musick.(no
heart to be joyful). The joy of our heart is ceased. Our
dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations
5:19 You, O LORD, remain for ever. Your throne from generation to generation.
Lamentations
5:21 Turn you us.(consider
us, turn your attention toward us).unto
you O LORD and we shall be turned.(we
shall be changed). Renew our days as of old.
Original
for 'old' is 'as of the East'; perhaps referring to the renewing of the
Sun on Earth each day..Psalms
80:3; Jeremiah 31:18.
....next
Old Testament book is Ezekiel
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