Albert Barnes Commentary Lamentations 3
Albert Barnes Commentary
Lamentations 3
Albert Barnes Commentary
Lamentations 3
"I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath." — Lamentations 3:1 (ASV)
That hath seen affliction - that is, has experienced, suffered it.
"Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day." — Lamentations 3:3 (ASV)
Is he turned; he turneth - Or, surely against me has he turned his hand again and again all the day long.
"My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones." — Lamentations 3:4 (ASV)
Made old - Or, wasted: his strength slowly wasted as he pined away in sorrow.
He hath broken my bones - This clause completes the representation of the sufferer’s physical agonies. Here the idea is that of acute pain.
"He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail." — Lamentations 3:5 (ASV)
He hath builded ... - The metaphor is taken from the operations in a siege.
Gall and travail - Or “travail;” that is, bitterness and weariness (through toil).
"He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead." — Lamentations 3:6 (ASV)
Or, “He has” made me to dwell “in darkness,” i.e. in Sheol or Hades, “as those” forever “dead.”
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