Lamentations 3:1

LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 3 The faithful bewail their misery and contempt, Lamentations 3:1. They nourish their hope by consideration of the justice, providence, and mercies of God, Lamentations 3:22. They stir up themselves to repentance, patience, prayers, and confidence of deliverance for themselves, and Divine vengeance on their enemies, Lamentations 3:39. Some understand this of the prophet, some of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman, a daughter, here of a man. Affliction must here be taken emphatically for eminent degrees of affliction, caused not merely from the power and malice of the enemy, but from the wrath of God, though brought upon them by the Chaldeans, who were to the two tribes the rod of God's wrath, as the Assyrians are called with reference to the ten tribes, Isaiah 10:5.