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The literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the lines arranged in couplets or triplets, each of which begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the third Lament, which consists of sixty-six stanzas instead of twenty-two, each line of each triplet begins with the same letter, so that the entire sixty six verses are required to give the twenty-two letters of the alphabet. Thus verses 1-3 or our version form but three lines of the original, each line beginning with A, etc.
Lam 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
my skin hath he made old
Lam 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
set me in dark places
Lam 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
He hath hedged me about
Lam 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
he shutteth out my prayer
Lam 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
set me as a mark for the arrow
Lam 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
with wormwood
Lam 3:22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
are not consumed
Lam 3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The LORD is my portion
Lam 3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
them that wait for him
Lam 3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
smiteth him
Lam 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
doth not afflict willingly
Lam 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
proceedeth not evil and good
Lam 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
the offscouring
Lam 3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
out of the low dungeon
Lam 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Thou drewest near
Lam 3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
redeemed
Hebrew goel, Redemption (Kinsman type). Scofield Isaiah 59:20, note.
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