It is good for a man to bear They look upon the Jewish nation as dead and buried, and imagine that there is not possibility of its resurrection. Verse 9. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible A man's heart devises his way; he projects and purposes; he says that he will do so and so (Jam 4 13); but the Lord directs his steps far otherwise than he designed them, and what he contrived and expected does not come to pass, unless it be what God's hand and his counsel had determined before to be done, Prov 16 9; Jer 10 23. When we are sedate and quiet under our afflictions, when we sit alone and keep silence, do not run to and fro into all companies with our complaints, aggravating our calamities, and quarrelling with the disposals of Providence concerning us, but retire into privacy, that we may in a day of adversity consider, sit alone, that we may converse with God and commune with our own hearts, silencing all discontented distrustful thoughts, and laying our hand upon our mouth, as Aaron, who, under a very severe trial, held his peace. Or, it may be rendered, "let him give his cheek.". Those who in their haste have chidden with God must, in the reflection, chide themselves for it. The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter. But when do we bear the yoke so that it is really good for us to bear it in our youth? Without interruption, 2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; 3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. Our lives are frail and forfeited, and yet we are alive; now the living, the living, they should praise, and not complain (Isa 38 19); while there is life there is hope, and therefore, instead of complaining that things are bad, we should encourage ourselves with the hope that they will be better. That he bear the yoke in his youth. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Lamentations Chapter 3 If, indeed, any sinner be kept out of hell, it is because God's compassion faileth not. That God turns a deaf ear to his prayers (v. 8): "When I cry and shout, as one in earnest, as one that would make him hear, yet he shuts out my prayer and will not suffer it to have access to him." (Lamentations 3:1-9) The man afflicted by the LORD. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. Verse 36. God feels breath; and happy is he that can say, In thee I hope, Lord, and after thee I breathe or pant. (Trapp), iii. That is, Thou wilt give it to them freely, and without reserve; intimating that God felt no longer any bowels of compassion for them. Even in their catastrophe, God was faithful. "As they deserve (v. 64): Render to them a recompence according to the work of their hands. I. The prophet complains, 1. His sense is that they should patiently receive the suffering and reproach God had appointed for them. That he is as one sorely afflicted both in body and mind. 1. "Do I well to be angry? Verse 34. Earlier in this chapter, Jeremiah felt God was his adversary (Lamentations 3:1-18).

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