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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
transgressed: Lamentations 1:18, Lamentations 5:16, Nehemiah 9:26, Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Jeremiah 3:13, Daniel 9:5-14, Luke 15:18, Luke 15:19
thou: 2 Kings 24:4, Jeremiah 5:7, Jeremiah 5:8, Ezekiel 24:13, Zechariah 1:5
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 12:12 - when Job 7:21 - why dost Isaiah 44:22 - as a thick Daniel 9:8 - because Zechariah 1:2 - Lord
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The prophet urges men to search out their faults and amend them.
Lamentations 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.
Lamentations 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.
