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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. See also: Psalms 88:7Psalms 88:15-16Job 19:21He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. See also: Job 30:26Isaiah 59:9Amos 5:18-20Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long. See also: Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 1:25Lamentations 2:4-7He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. See also: Isaiah 38:13Psalms 51:8Psalms 38:2-8He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. See also: Lamentations 3:19Jeremiah 23:15Job 19:8He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead. See also: Psalms 88:5-6Psalms 143:3Psalms 143:7He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy. See also: Job 19:8Job 3:23Jeremiah 38:6Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. See also: Job 30:20Psalms 22:2Job 19:7He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked. See also: Isaiah 63:17Isaiah 30:28Lamentations 3:11He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding. See also: Hosea 13:7-8Hosea 5:14Amos 5:18-20He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. See also: Hosea 6:1Job 16:12-13Lamentations 1:13He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. See also: Psalms 38:2Job 7:20Lamentations 2:4He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. See also: Job 6:4Deuteronomy 32:23Job 41:28I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long. See also: Jeremiah 20:7Lamentations 3:63Psalms 22:6-7He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood. See also: Jeremiah 9:15Job 9:18Ruth 1:20He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes. See also: Proverbs 20:17Jeremiah 6:26Psalms 58:6You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity. See also: Isaiah 59:11Isaiah 54:10Job 7:7I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.” See also: Job 17:151 Samuel 27:1Ezekiel 37:11Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness. See also: Lamentations 3:15Lamentations 3:5Psalms 132:1My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. See also: Psalms 42:5-6Psalms 42:11Job 21:6This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope. See also: Habakkuk 2:3Psalms 130:7Psalms 77:7-11It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. See also: Psalms 86:15Luke 1:50Nehemiah 9:31They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. See also: Hebrews 10:23Psalms 30:5Isaiah 33:2“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.” See also: Psalms 73:26Psalms 16:5Psalms 142:5The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. See also: Micah 7:7-8Isaiah 40:31Psalms 130:5-6It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. See also: Psalms 37:7Psalms 37:34Psalms 130:5It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. See also: Ecclesiastes 12:1Matthew 11:29-30Psalms 119:71Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. See also: Jeremiah 15:17Lamentations 2:10Psalms 39:9Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope. See also: Job 40:4Romans 3:19Luke 15:18-19Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach. See also: Isaiah 50:6Job 16:10Matthew 26:67For the Lord will not cast off forever. See also: Psalms 94:14Psalms 103:8-10Psalms 77:7For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. See also: Psalms 78:38Psalms 30:5Psalms 103:11For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. See also: Ezekiel 33:11Ezekiel 18:32Hebrews 12:9-10To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, See also: Zechariah 9:11-12Isaiah 51:22-23Psalms 102:20to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High, to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve. See also: Isaiah 59:15Habakkuk 1:13Jeremiah 22:3Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it? See also: Psalms 33:9-11Proverbs 16:9Isaiah 46:10Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? See also: Isaiah 45:7Amos 3:6Jeremiah 32:42Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? See also: Proverbs 19:3Micah 7:9Genesis 4:5-7Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. See also: 2 Corinthians 13:5Psalms 139:23-24Joel 2:12-13Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. See also: Psalms 25:1Psalms 28:2Psalms 143:6-8“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned. See also: Jeremiah 5:7-9Luke 15:18-19Nehemiah 9:26“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied. See also: Lamentations 2:21Lamentations 2:17Lamentations 2:1-2You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. See also: Lamentations 3:8Zechariah 7:13Psalms 97:2You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples. See also: 1 Corinthians 4:13Deuteronomy 28:37Lamentations 2:15“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. See also: Psalms 22:6-8Lamentations 2:16Psalms 44:13-14Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.” See also: Isaiah 51:19Isaiah 24:17-18Jeremiah 48:43-44My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. See also: Lamentations 2:11Jeremiah 9:18Jeremiah 9:1My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission, See also: Jeremiah 14:17Psalms 77:2Lamentations 1:16until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven. See also: Isaiah 63:15Psalms 80:14-16Psalms 102:19-20My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. See also: Jeremiah 19:9Luke 19:41-44Lamentations 2:21They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. See also: Psalms 35:19Psalms 35:7Psalms 11:1They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. See also: Jeremiah 38:6Jeremiah 38:9Daniel 6:17Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.” See also: Jonah 2:3-5Ezekiel 37:11Psalms 18:4I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon. See also: Acts 16:24-28Psalms 142:3-7Psalms 40:1-2You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.” See also: Job 34:28Isaiah 38:5Psalms 88:13-14You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.” See also: Isaiah 41:10James 4:8Isaiah 58:9Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life. See also: Psalms 34:22Jeremiah 51:36Psalms 103:4LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. See also: Psalms 43:1Psalms 26:11 Peter 2:23You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me. See also: Jeremiah 11:19-20Psalms 10:14Lamentations 3:59You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me, See also: Psalms 89:50Zephaniah 2:8Lamentations 5:1the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long. See also: Ezekiel 36:3Psalms 140:3Psalms 59:12You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song. See also: Psalms 139:2Lamentations 3:14Job 30:9You will pay them back, LORD, according to the work of their hands. See also: Psalms 28:4Jeremiah 11:202 Timothy 4:14You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. See also: Isaiah 6:10Deuteronomy 2:301 Corinthians 16:22You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. See also: Psalms 8:3Lamentations 3:43Deuteronomy 25:19
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)33 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Lamentations 3:1
Ver. 1. Man. Jeremias had a share in the common misery, (W.) and bewails his own condition, as a figure of Christ. Ps. lxxxvii. 16. Is. liii. 3. C. --- His disciples must expect to suffer. H.
↑ 1Lamentations 3:2
Ver. 2. Led, or driven me with the rod. H. --- God employs two. Zac. xi. 7. That of rigour was reserved for this prophet; (C. xxxviii.) none of them suffered more.
↑ 2Lamentations 3:4
Ver. 4. Old and wrinkled, the effect of misery.
↑ 4Lamentations 3:5
Ver. 5. Gall. Sept. "head." Chal. "he hath seized the chief." Job xvi. 13. He speaks in the name of the besieged, who had been threatened with this punishment. v. 19. C. viii. 14. C. --- And labour. Nabuzardan ransacked the city worse than his master, (W.) if the latter was at all present.
H.
↑ 5Lamentations 3:6
Ver. 6. Ever indeed. Eccle. xii. 5. and Ps. xlviii. 12. Jeremias (xxxviii. 6.) was in imminent danger.
↑ 6Lamentations 3:8
Ver. 8. Prayer. God would not allow him to pray for the people. C. vii. 16.
↑ 8Lamentations 3:9
Ver. 9. Stones. There is no passage. Job xix. 8.
↑ 9Lamentations 3:10
Ver. 10. Places. This may refer to the prophet or to the people.
↑ 10Lamentations 3:12
Ver. 12. Arrows. Such places were common where shooting was practised. 1
Kin. xx. 36. Job xvi. 11.
↑ 12Lamentations 3:14
Ver. 14. Song. True prophets were derided on account of impostors, and because of their declarations were unpleasant, &c. C. xvii. 15. Ezec. xii. 22.
↑ 14Lamentations 3:15
Ver. 15. Wormwood, or a bitter poisonous herb. C. ix. 26. Deut. xxix. 18.
↑ 15Lamentations 3:16
Ver. 16. One. Heb. "against a stone." My bread is full of them. Ps. ci. 10. C. ---
He describes his afflictions, as if his teeth had been broken. W.
↑ 16Lamentations 3:18
Ver. 18. End. Heb. "strength." Sept. "victory." C.
↑ 18Lamentations 3:21
Ver. 21. Hope. The remembrance fills him with grief and hope. C. xx. 12. H.
↑ 21Lamentations 3:23
Ver. 23. New. Novi should be novæ, to agree with miserationes. C. --- Chal.
"new miracles"
occur daily. H. --- God's mercies are ever fresh. W.
↑ 23Lamentations 3:27
Ver. 27. Yoke. Afflictions endured for justice sake ensure a blessing. H. --- All may derive great benefit from suffering.
↑ 27Lamentations 3:28
Ver. 28. Himself, with perfect resignation.
↑ 28Lamentations 3:29
Ver. 29. Hope. He does not doubt, but confides with great humility.
↑ 29Lamentations 3:30
Ver. 30. Him. We cannot verify this of the prophet as we can of Christ, (Mat.
xxvi. 62. C.) to whom this particularly refers. W.
↑ 30Lamentations 3:33
Ver. 33. Men. He punishes with regret. Ezec. xviii. 23. Our crimes force him to chastise. v. 36.
C. --- Yet he seeks our advantage. W.
↑ 33Lamentations 3:37
Ver. 37. Commanded. Heb. "said: It cometh to pass," as if by chance. There have always been Epicureans. Ezec. viii. 12. Ps. xciii. 7. C. --- Those who deny Providence speak. v. 30. W.
↑ 37Lamentations 3:39
Ver. 39. Sins? If all happened by inevitable necessity, or according to the laws of Providence, why should any one complain?
↑ 39Lamentations 3:41
Ver. 41. Up. This posture "is the testimony of a soul naturally Christian." Tert.
Apol. --- Our heart must accompany our hands. 1 Tim. ii. 8. C.
↑ 41Lamentations 3:42
Ver. 42. Inexorable. Heb. and Sept. "Thou hast not shewn pity." H.
↑ 42Lamentations 3:43
Ver. 43. Covered thyself, as if not to see our distress.
↑ 43Lamentations 3:44
Ver. 44. Cloud. Is. lix. 2. Eccli. xxxv. 21. These expressions are admirable.
↑ 44Lamentations 3:47
Ver. 47. Prophecy. Many would read, vastatio. Heb. "ruin." Sept. "taking away."
C. --- Prot.
"Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction." The prophets were continually in danger. H. --- The preaching of false prophets has brought these evils upon the people. W.
↑ 47Lamentations 3:51
Ver. 51. Wasted. Lit. "robbed." H. --- I have felt more for my people than they have themselves.
Moral writers often product this text, to shew the dangers of an unguarded glance (C.) at women.
↑ 51Lamentations 3:53
Ver. 53. Over me, as if I were buried. H. --- Jeremias was in prison (C. xxxviii. 6.) when he prayed. v. 54. C. xx. 7. C.
↑ 53Lamentations 3:59
Ver. 59. Judge what they have judged unjustly. W.
↑ 59Lamentations 3:62
Ver. 62. Lips; or language (Gen. xi. 1.) thou knowest. v. 60.
↑ 62Lamentations 3:63
Ver. 63. Up, all their conduct. --- Song. v. 14.
↑ 63Lamentations 3:65
Ver. 65. Buckler, to cover all the body. They shall be surrounded with misery, (Ps. cviii. 29.) while God will protect his servants. Ps. v. 13. C. --- Let sorrow pierce their heart, as thy enemies are treated. W.
↑ 65License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses