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La Biblia Reina-Valera
Lamentaciones 3:14
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- InternationalParallel Translations
He venido a ser objeto de burla de todo mi pueblo, su copla todo el día.
Fui escarnio a todo mi pueblo, canción de ellos todos los días.
He : Fui escarnio a todo mi pueblo, canción de ellos todos los días.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lamentations 3:63, Nehemiah 4:2-4, Job 30:1-9, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 35:15, Psalms 35:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 69:11, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 137:3, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 48:27, Matthew 27:39-44, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13
Reciprocal: Job 30:9 - am I Lamentations 3:45 - as Luke 23:35 - derided
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I was a derision to all my people,.... So Jeremiah was to the people of the Jews, and especially to his townsmen, the men of Anathoth, Jeremiah 20:7; but if he represents the body of the people, others must be intended; for they could not be a derision to themselves. The Targum renders it, to the spoilers of my people; that is, either the wicked among themselves, or the Chaldeans; and Aben Ezra well observes, that "ammi" is put for "ammim", the people; and so is to be understood of all the people round about them, the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, that laughed at their destruction; though some interpret it of the wicked among the Jews, to whom the godly were a derision; or of those who had been formerly subject to the Jews, and so their people, though not now:
[and] their song all the day; beating on their tabrets, and striking their harps, for joy; for the word l used signifies not vocal, but instrumental music; of such usage of the Messiah, see Psalms 69:12.
l × ×’×™× ×ª× a × ×’×Ÿ "pulsare istrumentum musicum".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.
Lamentations 3:11
The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.â€
Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.
Lamentations 3:12
This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.
Lamentations 3:14
Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.
Lamentations 3:15
“He hath†filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.
Lamentations 3:16
Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.
Lamentations 3:17
Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.
Lamentations 3:18
The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.
