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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 3
Jeremiah speaking for Judah bewails the calamity, but trusts in the Lord
and prays for deliverance.
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Jeremiah speaking for Judah bewails the calamity and personal afflictions
of the destruction with lessons to be learned—And yet with hope there
is a trust in the Lord and a prayer for deliverance.
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1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7 He hath ahedged me about,
that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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14 I was a aderision to
all my peoplea; and their
song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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14a a derision to all my people
Jeremiah had lived a life as a prophet whom the people had began to mock and
make fun of, 'their song all the day'. Once likely 'renoun' in the day
of Josiah, Jeremiah's lot had become the wearing of stocks in the streets
and the telling of 'tales' of prophecies against the people, for which the
people, beginning with the leadership of the Jews, did mock and deride him
constantly for all his doing.
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17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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22 ¶ It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24 The LORD is my
aportion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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25 The LORD is agood unto
them that bwait for him, to the soul that
cseeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should
both ahope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
LORD.
27 It is good for a man that he
abear the yoke in his byouth.
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28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth his
acheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with
breproach.
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31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have
acompassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he doth not aafflict
willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
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37 ¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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40 Let us asearch and try our
ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us alift up our heart
with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted
us: thou hast aslain, thou hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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46 All our aenemies have opened
their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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48 Mine eye runneth down with
arivers of water for the bdestruction of
the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou adrewest near in the
day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
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58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me,
and their adevice against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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64 ¶ Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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