Teks -- Lamentations 3:53 (NET)

3:53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Lam 3:53 - Dungeon

Dungeon seems here to be taken for the lowest condition of misery.

JFB: Lam 3:52-54 - a bird

Which is destitute of counsel and strength. The allusion seems to be to Pro 1:17 [CALVIN].

JFB: Lam 3:52-54 - without cause

(Psa 69:4; Psa 109:3-4). Type of Messiah (Joh 15:25).

JFB: Lam 3:53 - in . . . dungeon

(Jer 37:16).

JFB: Lam 3:53 - stone

Usually put at the mouth of a dungeon to secure the prisoners (Jos 10:18; Dan 6:17; Mat 27:60).

Calvin: Lam 3:53 - NO PHRASE

He now employs other comparisons. Some improperly confine this to Jeremiah himself, as though he explained here before God the wrongs done to himself: but there is no doubt but that he undertakes the cause of the whole people; and his object was to encourage by his own example the faithful to lament their state so that they might obtain pardon from God.

He then compares himself to a man half-dead, cast into a pit, and there left for lost. Then some improperly interpret the words, “they cast stones;” for stoning was not in the mind of the Prophet; but having said that he was fast bound in a pit or dungeon, he adds that a stone was laid over him, that lie might not come forth, as we know was the case with Daniel. (Dan 6:16.) Daniel was cast into the den of lions, and then a stone was put on the mouth of the den. So also the Prophet says, that he was bound fast in the pit, and not only that, but that a stone was laid over him, that there might be no hope of coming out; and thus the pit was like a grave. Here, then, he means that lie was reduced to the last extremity, because he had not only been taken by his enemies, but had also been cast into a pit. And, as it is well known, it is a metaphorical expression or a similitude. He adds, —

TSK: Lam 3:53 - cut // and

cut : Jer 37:20, Jer 38:6, Jer 38:9

and : Dan 6:17; Mat 27:60,Mat 27:66

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Lam 3:53 - Dungeon

Dungeon seemeth not to be here taken literally, for the lowest and nastiest place in prisons, which probably was the portion but of a few of the Jews; but metaphorically, for the lowest and saddest condition of misery. Their enemies had brought them into the deepest miseries, to the cutting off of their lives; and as men use to roll great stones upon the mouths of dens and pits, where they have shut up persons, to make them sure from escaping out, so their enemies had dealt with them, doing what lay in them to make their condition remediless and desperate.

Haydock: Lam 3:53 - Over me

Over me, as if I were buried. (Haydock) ---

Jeremias was in prison (chap. xxxviii. 6.) when he prayed, ver. 54., and chap. xx. 7. (Calmet)

Gill: Lam 3:53 - They have cut off my life in the dungeon // and cast a stone upon me

They have cut off my life in the dungeon,.... Jarchi interprets it,

"they bound me in the prison.''

Jeremiah was both in a prison and in a dungeon, where he was deprived of the society of men, as if he had been dead; and he was in danger of losing his life; but whether any respect is had to it here is not certain: it seems rather to respect the people of the Jews in captivity, who were deprived of their rights and liberties, and of the comforts of life; and were like dead men in their graves, to whom they are compared, Eze 37:11; but since Jeremiah was not dead, nor did he die in the dungeon, Jarchi's sense seems best, and agrees with what follows; and is confirmed by the version of others, who render it, "they shut up my life in the dungeon" ^q; or himself there:

and cast a stone upon me; to see if he was dead, or to prevent him from rising. The allusion is to the putting of stones at the mouths of dens and dungeons, caves and graves, to keep in those there put: or they stoned me, as the Targum; that is, they endeavoured to do it: or the Jews in captivity were like persons stoned to death, or like dead men covered with a heap of stones; for that Jeremiah was stoned to death there is no reason to believe.