the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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耶利米哀歌 3:66
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Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- FaussetParallel Translations
求你在烈怒中追趕他們，從耶和華管治的普天之下除滅他們。
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Persecute: Lamentations 3:43, Psalms 35:6, Psalms 73:15
under: Deuteronomy 7:24, Deuteronomy 25:19, Deuteronomy 29:20, 2 Kings 14:27, Jeremiah 10:11
heavens: Psalms 8:3, Psalms 115:16, Isaiah 66:1
Reciprocal: Hosea 8:3 - the enemy Colossians 1:23 - under
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Persecute and destroy them in anger,.... As they have persecuted the people of God, do thou persecute them; and never leave pursuing them untie thou hast made a full end of them, as the effect of vindictive wrath and vengeance:
from under the heavens of the Lord; which are made by him, and in which he dwells; let them not have the benefit of them, nor so much as the sight of them; but let them perish from under them, Jeremiah 10:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Lamentations 3:55
Out of the low dungeon - âThe lowest pitâ of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).
Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies âHide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,â i. e. to my cry for relief.
Lamentations 3:58
God now appears as the prophetâs next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.
Lamentations 3:59
Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.
Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61
Imaginations - Or, devices.
Lamentations 3:63
Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.
Musick - Or, song, âthe subject of it.â
Lamentations 3:64-66
The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, âThou shalt render unto them a recompence,â etc.
Lamentations 3:65
Give them sorrow of heart - Or, âThou wilt give themâ blindness âof heart.â
Lamentations 3:66
Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Lamentations 3:66. Persecute and destroy them — Thou wilt pursue them with destruction. These are all declaratory, not imprecatory.
From under the heavens of the Lord. — This verse seems to allude to the Chaldaic prediction, in Jeremiah 10:11. By their conduct they will bring on themselves the curse denounced against their enemies.
The Septuagint and Vulgate seem to have read "From under heaven, O Jehovah:" and the Syriac reads, "Thy heavens, O Jehovah!" None of these makes any material change in the meaning of the words.
It has already been noticed in the introduction, that this chapter contains a triple acrostic, three lines always beginning with the same letter; so that the Hebrew alphabet is thrice repeated in this chapter, twenty-two multiplied by three being equal to sixty-six.
