Lamentations 3:1
I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am the man — It seems, this is spoken in the name of the people, who were before set out under the notion of a woman.... [ Continue Reading ]
Made old — All my beauty is gone, and all my strength.... [ Continue Reading ]
Builded — He hath built forts and batteries against my walls and houses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Enclosed — He has defeated all my methods and counsels for security, by insuperable difficulties like walls of hewn stone. Crooked — Nay, God not only defeated their counsels, but made them fatal and pernicious to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wormwood — With severe and bitter dispensations.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ashes — Mourners were wont to throw ashes on their heads.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wormwood — Wormwood and gall, are often made use of to signify great affliction.... [ Continue Reading ]
This — Which follows, concerning the nature of God, and his good providences.... [ Continue Reading ]
Faithfulness — In fulfilling thy promises to thy people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bear — Quietly and patiently to bear what afflictions God will please to lay upon us. And if God tame us when young, by his word or by his rod, it is an unspeakable advantage.... [ Continue Reading ]
Borne it — That he keep his soul in subjection to God, because God hath humbled him by his rod.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the dust — Both this and the former verses let us know the duty of persons under afflictions.... [ Continue Reading ]
Willingly — Not from his own mere motion without a cause given him from the persons afflicted. Hence judgment is called God's strange work.... [ Continue Reading ]
To subvert — Here are three things mentioned, which God approveth not.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who — Nothing comes to pass in the world, but by the disposal of divine providence. This seems to be spoken in the name of the people of God, arguing themselves into a quiet submission, to their afflictions, from the consideration of the hand of God in them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Evil — Doth not evil or trouble come out of God's mouth from his direction, and providence, as well as good?... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore — The Jews, check themselves in their complaints from the consideration, that nothing had befallen them, but what was the just reward of their sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou — Thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mine eye — The prophet speaks this of himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dungeon — Dungeon seems here to be taken for the lowest condition of misery.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cut off — I am undone, there is no hope for me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heard — In former afflictions. Hide not — Shew me now the same favour.... [ Continue Reading ]
O Lord — Thou hast been wont to take my part against my enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Seen — Thou hast been a witness to all their fury.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am — At feasts, and at their merry meetings, I am all the subject of their discourse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Persecute — Many passages of this nature which we meet with are prophecies, some of them may be both prophecies and prayers.... [ Continue Reading ]