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* The Lord /is/ good to those who wait for Him*
* La 3:1-42* 9~/7~/08 a.m.
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*1wait* \ˈwāt\ vb
[ME, fr.
AF /waiter, guaiter/ to watch over, await, of Gmc origin; akin to OHG /wahta/ watch, OE /w+ccan/ to watch — more at wake] /vt/ 14c
*1* *: *to stay in place in expectation of *: *await 〈/waited/ the result of the advertisement —W.
M. Thackeray〉 〈/wait/ your turn〉
*2* *: *to delay serving (a meal)
*3* *: *to serve as waiter for 〈/wait/ tables〉 /vi/
*1* *a* *: *to remain stationary in readiness or expectation 〈/wait/ for a train〉
*b* *: *to pause for another to catch up — usu.
used with /up/
*2* *a* *: *to look forward expectantly 〈just /waiting/ to see his rival lose〉
*b* *: *to hold back expectantly 〈/waiting/ for a chance to strike〉
*3* *: *to serve at meals — usu.
used in such phrases as /wait on tables/ or /wait on table/
*4* *a* *: *to be ready and available 〈slippers /waiting/ by the bed〉
*b* *: *to remain temporarily neglected or unrealized 〈the chores can /wait/〉 [1]
*/The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope/*
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Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration;[2]
*La 3:1-42*
I am the man /who/ has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
/his own in the dungeon of Malchiah/
2 He has led me and made /me/ walk
/In/ darkness and not /in/ light.
c/alamity & not prosperity/
3 Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.
4 He has aged my flesh and my skin,
And broken my bones.
5 He has besieged me
/mounds, as against a besieged city, so as to allow none to escape/
And surrounded /me/ with bitterness and woe
/hardship or weariness./
6 He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.
7 He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
/literally, “chain of brass/
8 Even when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
/ as not to admit of being broken through.
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He has made my paths crooked.
/thwarted our plans and efforts so that none went right.
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10 He /has been/ to me a bear lying in wait,
/Like/ a lion in ambush.
11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
12 He has bent His bow
And set me up as a target for the arrow.
13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver
/literally, “sons” of His quiver/
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To pierce my loins.
14 I have become the ridicule of all my people—
/Jeremiah herein was a type of Messiah/
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Their taunting song all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth
/with gravel, referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East/
And covered me with ashes.
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten prosperity.
/Not only present, but all hope of future prosperity is removed; so much so, that I am as one who never was prosperous) (“I forgat prosperity”.
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18 And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”
/that is, my hope derived from Him/
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19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
The wormwood and the gall.
/This gives the reason why he gave way to the temptation to despair/
20 My soul still remembers
And sinks within me.
/As often as my soul calls them to remembrance, it is humbled or bowed down in me /
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21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
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/His very weakness gives him hope of God interposing His strength for him /
22 /Through/ the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 /They are/ new every morning;
Great /is/ Your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord /is/ my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”
/To have God for our portion is the one only foundation of hope /
25 The Lord /is/ good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul /who/ seeks Him.
26 /It is/ good that /one/ should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
/that is, to be patiently quiet under afflictions, resting in the will of God /
27 /It is/ good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.
*/yoke/*/—of *the Lord’s disciplinary teaching* (Ps 90:12; 119:71).
Calvin interprets it, *The Lord’s doctrine *(Mt 11:29, 30), which is to be received in a docile spirit.
*The earlier the better; for the old are full of prejudices* (Pr 8:17; Ec 12:1).
Jeremiah himself received the yoke, both of doctrine and chastisement in his youth (Je 1:6, 7).*[3]* /
/(The repetition of “good” at the beginning of each of the three verses heightens the effect.)
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28 Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because /God/ has laid /it/ on him;
/The fruit of true docility and patience.
He does not fight against the yoke (Je 31:18; Ac 9:5), but accommodates himself to it./
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