Teks -- Lamentations 3:66 (NET)

3:66 Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven.

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Wesley: Lam 3:66 - Persecute

Many passages of this nature which we meet with are prophecies, some of them may be both prophecies and prayers.

JFB: Lam 3:64-66

(Jer 11:20; 2Ti 4:14).

JFB: Lam 3:66 - from under . . . heavens of . . . Lord

Destroy them so that it may be seen everywhere under heaven that thou sittest above as Judge of the world.

Clarke: Lam 3:66 - Persecute and destroy them

Persecute and destroy them - Thou wilt pursue them with destruction. These are all declaratory, not imprecatory

Clarke: Lam 3:66 - From under the heavens of the Lord

From under the heavens of the Lord - This verse seems to allude to the Chaldaic prediction, in Jer 10:11. By their conduct they will bring on themselves the curse denounced against their enemies

The Septuagint and Vulgate seem to have read "From under heaven, O Jehovah:"and the Syriac reads, "Thy heavens, O Jehovah!"None of these makes any material change in the meaning of the words

It has already been noticed in the introduction, that this chapter contains a triple acrostic, three lines always beginning with the same letter; so that the Hebrew alphabet is thrice repeated in this chapter, twenty-two multiplied by three being equal to sixty-six.

Calvin: Lam 3:66 - NO PHRASE

He first asks God to persecute them in wrath, that is, to be implacable to them; for persecution is, when God not only chastises the wicked for a short time, but when he adds evils to evils, and accumulates them until they perish. He then adds, and prays God to destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah This phrase is emphatical; and they extenuate the weightiness of the sentence, who thus render it, “that God himself would destroy the ungodly from the earth.” For the Prophet does not without a design mention the heavens of Jehovah, as though he had said, that though God is hidden from us while we sojourn in the world, he yet dwells in heaven, for heaven is often called the throne of God, —

“The heaven is my throne.” (Isa 66:1.)

“O God, who dwellest in the sanctuary.”
(Psa 22:4; Psa 77:14.)

By God’s sanctuary is often meant heaven. For this reason, then, the Prophet asked here that the ungodly should be destroyed from under the heaven of Jehovah, that is, that their destruction might testify that he sits in heaven, and is the judge of the world, and that things are not in such a confusion, but that the ungodly must at length render an account before the celestial judge, whom they have yet long neglected. This is the end of the chapter.

Defender: Lam 3:66 - Persecute and destroy them

In these closing verses of his longest lamentation, the prophet in effect composes an imprecatory psalm, calling on God to take vengeance on his enemies, for his enemies were really God's enemies, and vengeance belongs to God."

TSK: Lam 3:66 - Persecute // under // heavens

Persecute : Lam 3:43; Psa 35:6, Psa 73:15

under : Deu 7:24, Deu 25:19, Deu 29:20; 2Ki 14:27; Jer 10:11

heavens : Psa 8:3, Psa 115:16; Isa 66:1

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Poole: Lam 3:66

Bring them to a temporal ruin and destruction. How far such petitions are lawful we have before showed, in our notes on Psa 69:22-24 , &c.; Psa 119:6-10 , &c.; Jer 11:20 15:15 : see also Lam 1:22 . It is hard to interpret all passages of this nature which we meet with as prophecies, though some of them are so, and others may be both prophecies and prayers.

Gill: Lam 3:66 - Persecute and destroy them in anger // from under the heavens of the Lord

Persecute and destroy them in anger,.... As they have persecuted the people of God, do thou persecute them; and never leave pursuing them untie thou hast made a full end of them, as the effect of vindictive wrath and vengeance:

from under the heavens of the Lord; which are made by him, and in which he dwells; let them not have the benefit of them, nor so much as the sight of them; but let them perish from under them, Jer 10:11.