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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Lamentations 3

Chapter 3

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

the man

1:12-14 Job 19:21 Psalms 71:20 88:7,15,16 Isaiah 53:3 Jeremiah 15:17,18 Jeremiah 20:14-18 38:6

his wrath

That is, the wrath of God.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

brought

53-55 2:1 Deuteronomy 28:29 Job 18:18 30:26 Isaiah 59:9 Jeremiah 13:16 Amos 5:18-20 Jude 1:6,13

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

2:4-7 Deuteronomy 29:20 Job 31:21 Isaiah 1:25 63:10

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

My flesh

Job 16:8,9 Psalms 31:9,10 32:3 38:2-8 102:3-5

he hath

Psalms 22:14 51:8 Isaiah 38:13 Jeremiah 50:17

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

builded

7-9 Job 19:8

gall

19 Psalms 69:21 Jeremiah 8:14 9:15 23:15

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

in dark

Psalms 88:5,6 143:3,7

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

hedged

9 Job 3:23 19:8 Psalms 88:8 Jeremiah 38:6 Hosea 2:6

made

1:14 5:5 Daniel 9:12

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

44 Job 19:7 30:20 Psalms 22:2 80:4 Habakkuk 1:2 Matthew 27:46

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

made

11 Isaiah 30:28 63:17

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

unto

Job 10:16 Isaiah 38:13 Hosea 5:14 6:1 13:7,8 Amos 5:18-20

in secret

Psalms 10:9 17:12

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

pulled

Job 16:12,13 Psalms 50:22 Jeremiah 5:6 51:20-22 Daniel 2:40-44 7:23 Micah 5:8 Hosea 6:1

he hath made

1:13 Job 16:7 Isaiah 3:26 Jeremiah 6:8 9:10,11 19:8 32:43 Matthew 23:38 Revelation 18:19

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

bent

Job 6:4 7:20 16:12,13 Psalms 7:12,13 38:2

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

arrows

Heb. sons.

Deuteronomy 32:23 Job 6:4 41:28

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

63 Nehemiah 4:2-4 Job 30:1-9 Psalms 22:6,7 35:15,16 44:13 69:11,12 Psalms 79:4 123:3,4 137:3 Jeremiah 20:7 48:27 Matthew 27:39-44 1 Corinthians 4:9-13

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

filled

19 Ruth 1:20 Job 9:18 Psalms 60:3 Isaiah 51:17-22 Jeremiah 9:15 23:15 Jeremiah 25:15-18,27

bitterness

Heb. bitternesses.

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

broken

Job 4:10 Psalms 3:7 58:6

gravel

Proverbs 20:17 Matthew 7:9 Luke 11:11

he hath

Psalms 102:9

covered me with ashes

or, rolled me in the ashes.

Job 2:8 Jeremiah 6:26 Jonah 3:6

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

thou

1:16 Psalms 119:155 Isaiah 38:17 54:10 59:11 Jeremiah 8:15 14:19 16:5 Zechariah 8:10

I forgat

Genesis 41:30 Job 7:7 Jeremiah 20:14-18

prosperity

Heb. good.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

1 Samuel 27:1 Job 6:11 17:15 Psalms 31:22 116:11 Ezekiel 37:11

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Remembering

or, Remember.

Nehemiah 9:32 Job 7:7 Psalms 89:47,50 132:1

the

5,15 Jeremiah 9:15

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

hath

Job 21:6

humbled

Heb. bowed.

Psalms 42:5,6,11 43:5 146:8

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

recall to my mind

Heb. make to return to my heart.

Psalms 77:7-11

therefore

24-29 Psalms 119:81 130:7 Habakkuk 2:3

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

of

Ezra 9:8,9,13-15 Nehemiah 9:31 Psalms 78:38 106:45 Ezekiel 20:8,9,13,14,21 Ezekiel 20:22 Malachi 3:6

because

Psalms 77:8 86:15 Micah 7:18,19 Luke 1:50

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

new

Psalms 30:5 Isaiah 33:2 Zephaniah 3:5

great

Exodus 34:6 Psalms 36:5 89:1,2,33 146:6 Titus 1:2 Hebrews 6:18 10:23

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

my portion

Psalms 16:5 73:26 119:57 142:5 Jeremiah 10:16 51:19

therefore

21 1 Samuel 30:6 1 Chronicles 5:20 Job 13:15 Psalms 31:24 33:18 42:11 43:5 Psalms 62:8 84:12 130:7 Romans 15:12 1 Peter 1:21

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

good

26 Genesis 49:18 Psalms 25:8 27:14 37:7,34 39:7 40:1-5 61:1,5 Psalms 130:5,6 Isaiah 25:9 30:18 40:31 64:4 Micah 7:7,8 Zephaniah 3:8 1 Thessalonians 1:10 James 5:7

to

1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 15:2 19:3 30:19 31:21 Psalms 22:26 27:8 69:32 105:3 Psalms 119:2 Isaiah 26:9 55:6 Hosea 10:12

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

good

Psalms 52:9 54:6 73:28 92:1 Galatians 4:18

hope

Hebrews 3:14 10:35 1 Peter 1:13

quietly

Genesis 49:18 Exodus 14:13 2 Chronicles 20:17 Psalms 37:7,34 119:166,174 130:5 Isaiah 30:7,15

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

bear

Psalms 90:12 94:12 119:71 Ecclesiastes 12:1 Matthew 11:29,30 Hebrews 12:5-12

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

2:10 Psalms 39:9 102:7 Jeremiah 15:17

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

putteth

2 Chronicles 33:12 Job 40:4 42:5,6 Ezekiel 16:63 Romans 3:19

if

Joel 2:14 Jonah 3:9 Zephaniah 2:3 Luke 15:18,19 18:13

He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

his

Job 16:10 Isaiah 50:6 Micah 5:1 Matthew 5:39 26:67 Luke 6:29 2 Corinthians 11:20

filled

Psalms 69:9,20 123:3

For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

1 Samuel 12:22 Psalms 77:7 94:14 103:8-10 Isaiah 54:7-10 57:16 Jeremiah 31:37 Jeremiah 32:40 33:24 Micah 7:18 Romans 11:1-6

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

22 Exodus 2:23 3:7 Judges 10:16 2 Kings 13:23 Psalms 30:5 78:38 103:11 Psalms 106:43-45 Jeremiah 31:20 Hosea 11:8 Luke 15:20

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

afflict

Isaiah 28:21 Ezekiel 18:32 33:11 Hebrews 12:9,10

willingly

Heb. from his heart.

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

crush

Isaiah 51:22,23 Jeremiah 50:17,33,34 51:33-36

all

Psalms 69:33 79:11 102:20 Isaiah 14:17 49:9 Zechariah 9:11,12

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

the Lord

2 Samuel 11:27 Isaiah 59:15 Habakkuk 1:13

approveth

Heb. seeth.

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

saith

Psalms 33:9-11 Proverbs 16:9 19:21 21:30 Isaiah 46:10 Daniel 4:35 Romans 9:15 Ephesians 1:11 James 4:13-15

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Job 2:10 Psalms 75:7 Proverbs 29:26 Isaiah 45:7 Amos 3:6

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

doth

22 Numbers 11:11 Proverbs 19:3 Isaiah 38:17-19

complain

or, murmur. a man.

Genesis 4:5-7,13,14 Leviticus 26:41,43 Numbers 16:41 17:12 Joshua 7:6-13 2 Samuel 6:7,8 2 Kings 3:13 6:32 Ezra 9:13 Job 11:6 Isaiah 51:20 Jonah 2:3,4 Jonah 4:8,9 Micah 7:9 Hebrews 12:5-12 Revelation 16:9

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

search

1 Chronicles 15:12,13 Job 11:13-15 34:31,32 Psalms 4:4 119:59 139:23,24 Ezekiel 18:28 Haggai 1:5-9 1 Corinthians 11:28,31 2 Corinthians 13:5

turn

Deuteronomy 4:30 2 Chronicles 30:6,9 Isaiah 55:7 Hosea 6:1 12:6 14:1-3 Joel 2:12,13 Zechariah 1:3,4 Acts 26:20

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

lift

Psalms 25:1 86:4 143:6-8

with

Psalms 28:2 63:4 141:2 1 Thessalonians 2:8

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

transgressed

1:18 5:16 Nehemiah 9:26 Job 33:27,28 Jeremiah 3:13 Daniel 9:5-14 Luke 15:18,19

thou

2 Kings 24:4 Jeremiah 5:7,8 Ezekiel 24:13 Zechariah 1:5

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

covered

2:1 Psalms 44:19

persecuted

66 Psalms 83:15

thou hast slain

2:2,17,21 2 Chronicles 36:16,17 Ezekiel 7:9 8:18 9:10

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

covered

Psalms 97:2

that

8 Psalms 80:4 Jeremiah 14:11 15:1 Zechariah 7:13

Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

as

14 2:15 4:14,15 Deuteronomy 28:13,37,44 1 Corinthians 4:13

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

have

2:16 Exodus 11:7 Job 30:9-11 Psalms 22:6-8 44:13,14 79:4,10 Matthew 27:38-45

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Fear

Isaiah 24:17,18 51:19 Jeremiah 48:43,44 Luke 21:35

desolation

1:4,13 2:1-9

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

2:11,18 Psalms 119:136 Jeremiah 4:19 9:1,18 13:17 Romans 9:1-3

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

and

1:16 Psalms 77:2 Jeremiah 14:17

Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

2:20 5:1 Psalms 80:14-16 102:19,20 Isaiah 62:6,7 63:15 64:1 Daniel 9:16-19

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

eye

Genesis 44:34 1 Samuel 30:3,4 Jeremiah 4:19-21 14:18 Luke 19:41-44

mine heart

Heb. my soul. because of all. or, more than all. the daughters.

1:18 2:21 5:11 Jeremiah 11:22 14:16 19:9

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

chased

Jeremiah 37:15,16 38:4-6

without

1 Samuel 24:10-15 25:28,29 26:18-20 Psalms 35:7,19 69:4 109:3 119:161 Jeremiah 37:18 John 15:25

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

cut

Jeremiah 37:20 38:6,9

and

Daniel 6:17 Matthew 27:60,66

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

Waters

Psalms 18:4 69:1,2,15 124:4,5 Jonah 2:3-5

I said

18 Job 17:11-16 Psalms 31:22 Isaiah 38:10-13 Ezekiel 37:11 2 Corinthians 1:8-10

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

2 Chronicles 33:11,12 Psalms 18:5,6 40:1,2 69:13-18 116:3,4 130:1,2 Psalms 142:3-7 Jeremiah 38:6 Jonah 2:2-4 Acts 16:24-28

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

hast

2 Chronicles 33:13,19 Job 34:28 Psalms 3:4 6:8,9 34:6 66:19 116:1,2 Isaiah 38:5

hide

Psalms 55:1 88:13,14 Romans 8:26

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

drewest

Psalms 69:18 145:18 Isaiah 58:9 James 4:8

thou saidst

Isaiah 41:10,14 43:1,2 Jeremiah 1:17 Acts 18:9 27:24 Revelation 1:17 2:10

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

thou hast pleaded

1 Samuel 25:39 Psalms 35:1 Jeremiah 51:36

thou hast redeemed

Genesis 48:16 Psalms 34:22 71:23 103:4

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

thou hast

Jeremiah 11:19-21 15:10 18:18-23 20:7-10 37:1-38

judge

Genesis 31:42 Psalms 9:4 26:1 35:1,23 43:1 1 Peter 2:23

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

59 Psalms 10:14 Jeremiah 11:19,20

Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

30 5:1 Psalms 74:18 89:50 Zephaniah 2:8

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

lips

Psalms 59:7,12 140:3 Ezekiel 36:3

and

Jeremiah 18:18

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

their sitting

Psalms 139:2

I am

14 Job 30:9

Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Psalms 28:4 Jeremiah 11:20 50:29 2 Timothy 4:14 Revelation 6:10 18:6

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

sorrow

or, obstinacy.

Deuteronomy 2:30 Isaiah 6:10

thy

Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Psalms 109:17,18 1 Corinthians 16:22

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

Persecute

43 Psalms 35:6 73:15

under

Deuteronomy 7:24 25:19 29:20 2 Kings 14:27 Jeremiah 10:11

heavens

Psalms 8:3 115:16 Isaiah 66:1