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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 3:1 - 3:1
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Lam 3:1-66. 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; hence the change from singular to plural (Lam 3:22, Lam 3:40-47). The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter.
Aleph
seen affliction - his own in the dungeon of Malchiah (Jer 38:6); that of his countrymen also in the siege. Both were types of that of Christ.