Lamentations 3:26

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:1-66

Lamentations 3. The Third Lament.— Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lamentations 3:1 forcibly enough: it should read, “ It is I, even I the strong man, who know now, alas, what abasement means.” The chant is artistically more clever than Lamentations 3:1 and Lamentations 3:2, but its heart is not so great. In form it has a cunning device all its own; for the first stanza... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 3:26

Good here either signifies honestum, what becomes men, and is their duty; or utile, what is profitable, and will turn to good account to them. Hoping and waiting differ but as the mother and daughter, hope being the mother of patience and waiting; or as the habit and act, hoping and waiting being ranch the same, flowing from a gracious power and habit given the soul to wait. Quietness is necessary to waiting, for all turbulency and impatience of spirit under sad providences is opposed to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Lamentations 3:25-27

EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (ט) Lamentations 3:25. Such an acceptance suggests more knowledge. Good is Jehovah to them that wait for him, to a soul that seeks him. He is ready to respond to those who feel need of Him and foster longings after Himself.Lamentations 3:26. So when the graciousness of the Lord is perceived, and its proffers yielded to, blessedness is not far off. Good it is both to wait and be silent for the salvation of Jehovah. There is to be no striving, nor crying, nor causing the voice... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:26

Lamentations 3:26 I. The first thing is to understand what is meant by "the salvation of the Lord." The salvation of the Lord here is something else than the first view which a sinful man obtains of pardon and peace, through "the great God our Saviour." It is the salvation which a man needs in any crisis of life, where he suffers under trial or is threatened with it. And, in those trials, hope and quiet waiting do not come at once into their fullest exercise. As long as human means can avail,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Lamentations 3:1-66

Chapter 3In this third lamentation he begins from the depth of depression and despair. He begins with hopelessness, and hopelessness is always the experience behind depression. Depression is the loss of hope, no way out, nothing I can do. Hopelessness leads to depression.I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light ( Lamentations 3:1-2 ).It seems like God has turned against the prophet. "I have seen the wrath of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:1-66

The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistichs formed distinct lines, as in other poetry. The prophet commences with the idea of a prisoner, sitting in darkness, and bound with a chain. As Jeremiah intended this poem to be set to music, it was proper to preserve the rhythm and spirit of poetic composition. Lamentations 3:1 . I am the man... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Lamentations 3:26

Lamentations 3:26 [It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. Ver. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait. ] Heb., Be silent: not with a pythagoric or monastic silence, ut non liceat loqui locis et horis certis, but with a humble submission to God’s holy will, a patient and peaceable behaviour under his hand; waiting for a good use thereof, and a gracious issue in the best time - to frame the heart whereunto, Aurea his... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Lamentations 3:26

good: Psalms 52:9, Psalms 54:6, Psalms 73:28, Psalms 92:1, Galatians 4:18 hope: Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 10:35, 1 Peter 1:13 quietly: Genesis 49:18, Exodus 14:13, 2 Chronicles 20:17, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 119:166, Psalms 119:174, Psalms 130:5, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 30:15 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 8:16 - to do thee Joshua 3:8 - ye shall stand 1 Samuel 27:1 - there is nothing 1 Samuel 28:7 - Seek me 2 Kings 6:33 - wait for the Job 14:14 - all the days Job 17:13 - If I wait Psalms 27:14 -... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:25-27

25-27. Good This teth ( שׂ ) verse has each of its clauses commencing with “good.” The present verse division serves somewhat to conceal the structure Good is Jehovah; Good that man hope and wait; and, Good that he bear the yoke in his youth. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 3:26

26. Hope and quietly wait, etc. More literally, It is good both to wait and be silent =silently wait. Keil renders it: It is good that he should wait, and in silence too, for the help of God. The point is, that he should not only wait, but abstain from murmurings and repinings. This also prepares for the thought of the following verse, for he who has patiently submitted to sufferings in his youth will not readily sink in despair in old age, but will be likely to exercise himself in a... read more

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