The practice of self-examination will more assuredly soften and humanise the character in regard of the social intercourses of life; making him who is diligent in such practice gentle and merciful toward his fellow-creatures. W. Conder, Christian World Pulpit, vol. 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. This is one of those very bright thoughts which lie across this dark book like an April ray upon a retiring cloud. 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. The first clause may be explained in two ways: The view commonly taken is, that it ought to be ascribed to God’s mercy that the faithful have not been often consumed. S. Martin, Westminster Chapel Pulpit, 1st series, No. "A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful." To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of Christian service. Lamentations 3:22-23 English Standard Version (ESV) 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; [] his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. V. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of a public Christian profession. If, indeed, any sinner be kept out of hell, it is because God's compassion faileth not. I. But it is not a joyful and pleasant thing to consider closely our own way, and see how we have behaved ourselves towards our good and gracious Father who is on high. Test drive it and tell us about your experience. Each day will have a duty, a trial, a temptation, a strength, a joy. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. And like the ps… Tons more resources, better tools, NIV84 and easier navigation. 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. That means that when we run to Him and ask for forgiveness, He is faithful 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) (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview [1] Lamentations, from Thru The Bible Radio with Dr. J. Vernon McGee ©, with free downloads Notes & Outlines (PDF), Complete 5-Year Study (MP3) The Book of Lamentations is composed of five chapters, and each chapter is an elegy, almost a funeral dirge. 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). 1812. 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. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (b) We shall find how good it is in the enhancement of every blessing for which we have to wait. If God had not a blessing in store for us, how is it that we are captives, and not slain as many others were during the siege? Aleph. III. World History Map Bible Atlas Celestine Prophecy Bible Online Bible Mapping Religious Education Jesus Loves You Gods Plan Jesus Is Lord. 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. It is good for a man to bear in his youth the yoke of self-restraint. Without repentance we shall perish, and repentance absolutely requires and supposes a careful review of the actions of our life, and that at stated and oft-recurring periods, so that the actions may be remembered and not slip through, from the length of time through which the review extends and the difficulty of recalling its performances. While man has life, he may win Christ. The title, “Lamentations,” was derived from a translation of the title as found in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Septuagint, and conveys the idea of “loud cries.” The entire book is poetic. Lamentations 3:22-23 English Standard Version Update 22 () The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; [] () his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning; () great is your faithfulness. Hence a very useful doctrine is elicited — that God succors his own people, lest they should wholly perish. This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. 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. VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENTARY with Dr. Grant C. Richison exposes the mind of God to the mind of man by expounding individual books of God’s Word verse-by-verse.. Each study expounds a passage, forms a principle out of that passage, and shows how to apply that principle to your life. CHAPTER (ELEGY) 3 La 3:1-66. VII. 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. Woe to that home which lays no yoke upon its inmates. Commend me to the man who has been through deep waters, through very dark places, through treacherous, serpent-haunted roads, and who has yet come out with a cheerful heart, mellow, chastened, subdued, and who speaks tenderly of the mercy of God through it all. "[27] This section is not merely the heart of this chapter, it is also the heart of Lamentations. There hath nothing befallen thee save the just recompense of thy misdoing. I. 22. Blessings, being as it were suspended or withheld during the night, are again renewed in the morning. We owe it to ourselves to make this appeal to God. What To Preach--And When: Build Your Preaching Calendar By SermonCentral on January 6, 2021 Are We More Invested In Bringing People To Church Or Jesus? He vindicates the goodness of God in all his dispensations, and the unreasonableness of murmuring under them, 28-39. ... Acts 3:22… Hope differs from faith in this, that we believe in many things in regard to which we do not hope. I. "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. 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. Here is the danger of forms and modes. (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. 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. If the rendering be made literal, “in the mornings,” the meaning is the same; they follow the previous nights of trouble. II. 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. Entry for 'Mercy' - One of 6 Bible concordances freely available, this timeless classic, with over 3,700 entries, is THE concordance guide for serious students LAMENTATIONS 3 THE STEADFAST LOVE OF THE LORD NEVER CEASES F1 This chapter begins with the words, "I am the man"; and this writer confidently identifies the prophet Jeremiah as "the man," not merely the man in this chapter, but also the author of the whole book. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 22 It is of the Lord ’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. The second thing is to consider what is meant by these exercises of the soul towards God's salvation, "to hope and quietly to wait." Click the Bible for the all new StudyLight.org!! Do you not sometimes come from the place of prayer with the guilty consciousness that you have not prayed. This sentence was much in the mouth of that famous Maria Aegyptiaca, and should be in all our minds and mouths for a lenitive. We are come, by God's grace, to a new year. A living man! God placed him not in a "sleeping hollow" to fatten in idleness; but in a large garden, to dress it and to keep it. Lamentations 3:22-23 Today's Mercies for Today's Troubles; KAY DAIGLE. 2020 is a year that many of us bade a cheerful farewell to. It is of the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed.] Psalms 103:10; Lamentations 3:22,39,40; … 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. As long as human means can avail, it is a man's duty, trusting to Divine help, to employ them. Taking the opening of the chapter along with the text, we seem to find a good deal of inconsistency—and, in fact, positive contradiction. Lamentations 4:17 suggests that the author was expecting help from the Egyptians, a perspective which Jeremiah strongly opposed ( Jeremiah 37:5-10 ). In them the riches of God‘s grace and mercy are set forth in the brightest colors, but no sooner are they ended than the prophet resumes the language of woe. Study the Bible online. (1) He tells us the goodness of waiting: it is good for a man to wait. 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. In self-examination each man is his own minister; and Christ, who is above, the only Priest. I. ‘The wormwood and the gall … the Lord’s mercies.’. Say it to thyself a thousand times. Article by Brent Parker. And he afterwards adds, —. References: Lamentations 3:27.—Preacher's Monthly, vol. 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. There is no book in the Bible which is more characterised by the illuminations of sorrow. We must plead for them, and yet learn in waiting the reason why they are withheld. They made all men’s causes of suffering and sorrow their own, till all men hated them and put a price on their heads.’. 579; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 325. Every morning of those dark days witnessed some new provision of God’s care. Lamentations 3:27-30. That we are yet on this side hell. 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. (2) The one is needful to raise the other to its full strength. How can a complaint against justice be itself just. Lamentations 3:28 - Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. Lamentations 3:22-23 The Freedom of Forgiveness - Part 2 (See also Part 1) Lamentations 3:22-23 What to Do When You Don’t Feel Thankful; WOODROW KROLL. I. We live not upon old mercies, but upon new ones fresh from the Divine hand, fresh from the Divine heart. There are, with all of us, desires and tendencies which we have sternly to resist, and the denying of which is part of the training by which we are fitted for a noble and useful life. Great is thy faithfulness. 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;'. u Read more Share Copy Show footnotes A service . VI. 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. (Lamentations 5:19-22) Overview (Praise to the God of All Comfort. This is one of those very bright thoughts which lie across this dark book like an April ray upon a retiring cloud. Jarchi observes, that "tamnu" is as "tammu"; the "nun" being inserted, according to Aben Ezra, instead of doubling the letter "mem"; and the former makes the sense to be this, in connection with the Lamentations 3:21; "this I recall to mind the mercies of the Lord, that they are not consumed"; to which agrees the Targum, "the goodnesses, of the Lord, for they cease not;'. W. B. Pope, Sermons, Addresses, and Charges, p. 155. (1) Our text represents affliction as a punishment, not of this sin, or of that sin, but generally for the punishment of man's sins. 480. Even before the fall, man had his physical work assigned to him. 22.The mercies of Jehovah, verily they have no end, As our confessions and petitions ascend to God, as we search and try our ways and turn again to Him, we shall become conscious that He is drawing near (Lamentations 3:57).—‘Thou saidst, Fear not.’ How often God will utter those words as the years pass! This, then, is the first thing for us to do, if we would strengthen hope, to see that its objects are right and good—that is, accordant with the Divine will and beneficial for us; we may learn this by consulting God's word and our own thoughtful experience. V. The combination of seeking and waiting forms in its highest perfection the devotional state of the soul in which both the seeking and the waiting go beyond their former meanings, and blend into the habit rather than the act of communion with God. 27:46 Lamentations 3:19 - Math. We see a mountain, it will come in grains of sand. It is good for a man to become a decided Christian in early life. They were before the year; they were before all years; they will outlive the year. Or, Are not spent, wasted, but, as the oil in the cruse, as the spring ever runneth, the sun ever shineth, &c. This should ever shine in our hearts as the sun doth in the firmament. — Ed. Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. This I recall to my mind, &c.— Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope and comfort. C. J. Vaughan, Pulpit Analyst, vol. C. P. Eden, Oxford Lent Sermons, 1859, p. 241. on StudyLight… More resources, better tools and easier navigation Test drive it and tell us about your experience. The law is not against such things. hast withheld beneath our iniquities. Themes: Mourning over Jerusalem’s destruction; confession of sin and acknowledgment of God’s justice; hope in God’s future restoration We wish it were, but its not. III. A determination to go, yet a willingness to stand still—that is the mystery of true waiting. J. Thain Davidson, Forewarned—Forearmed, p. 19. The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus took away a normalcy that many of us had previously taken for granted, caused serious financial and socio-economic disruption, and challenged our hope for the future. Jeremiah was brought to understand two things about the government of God: (1) that it was tender; (2) that it was minute. 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. VI. 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. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. because his compassions fail not; or, "his tender mercies"F24רחמו "miserationes ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. Our Creator intended us for labour, not for indolence. Such is the comfort still of all those who know the Lord; it is the song in the night: “The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I … These psalms trace the upward ascent of our heart to Gods heart, but its not smooth sailing all the way. There is, first, the yoke of home. Hold to that, soul, in spite of all appearances, and dare to believe that the Lord is good. So we must take the night with the morning, if we would have the complete day.

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