Its New Testament counterpart (1 Corinthians 4:13) is equally rare, depicting the suffering of the apostles. (Harrison), ii. We must offer up ourselves to God, and our best affections and services, in the flames of devotion, v. 41. This I recall to my mind, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). This verse seems to allude to the Chaldaic prediction, in Jeremiah 10:11. a. How powerful is this word when spoken by the Spirit of the Lord to a disconsolate heart. Is it not from the mouth of the Most High ii. i. By this rod we must expect to see affliction, and, if we be made to see more than ordinary affliction by that rod, we must not quarrel, for we are sure that the anger is just and affliction mild and mixed with mercy. has Jehovah. It is the heart that God looks at in that and every other service; for what will a sacrifice without a heart avail? 3. If God disciplines us when we are young, it is to train us for a fruitful future. We are apt, in times of public calamity, to reflect upon other people's ways, and lay blame upon them; whereas our business is to search and try our own ways. Life in any sense is a sweet mercy, even that which to the afflicted may seem a lifeless life. (Trapp). II. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. God feels breath; and happy is he that can say, In thee I hope, Lord, and after thee I breathe or pant. (Trapp), iii. One can scarcely read this description without feeling the toothache. The sum is, If tribulation work patience, that patience will work experience, and that experience a hope that makes not ashamed. The villages about Jerusalem. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. My affliction and my transgression (so some read it), my trouble and my sin that brought it upon me; this was the wormwood and the gall in the affliction and the misery. What! If you will turn to the lives of any of the saints of God, you will discover that they were the victims of slanders of the grossest kind. Those that blame their lot reproach him that allotted it to them. They look upon the Jewish nation as dead and buried, and imagine that there is not possibility of its resurrection. of Scripture. In the midst of these sad complaints here is one word of comfort, by which it appears that their case was not altogether so bad as they made it, v. 50. i. Luke-Acts 1. No; the very same that caused the grief must bring in the favour, or we are undone. That, whatever sorrow we are in, it is what God has allotted us, and his hand is in it. He has set me as a mark for his arrow, which he aims at, and will be sure to hit, and then the arrows of his quiver enter into my reins, give me a mortal wound, an inward wound, v. 13. That, bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. He hath - brought me into darkness In the sacred writings, darkness is often taken for calamity; light, for prosperity. The Lord is my portion Psalms 119:57. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point It is good for a man to bear Verse 36. 3. 1 Cor 4 13, We are made as the filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things. Let us try our ways, that by them we may try ourselves, for we are to judge of our state not by our faint wishes, but by our steps, not by one particular step, but by our ways, the ends we aim at, the rules we go by, and the agreeableness of the temper of our minds and the tenour of our lives to those ends and those rules. c. He has besieged me: Even as Jerusalem was literally besieged, so Jeremiah (and countless others) felt themselves surrounded by bitterness and woe and slowly strangled by God. They are new every morning Day and night proclaim the mercy and compassion of God. Fear and a snare have come upon us, Verse 29. Some read it, at my gasping. Though He causes grief, By soul - is humbled in me. In His wise judgments God caused grief, but promised to also show compassion, and would do so according to the multitude of His mercies. The nations recognition of itself as offscouring (so most evv) employs a descriptive term sehi, occurring here only in the Hebrew Bible, and in the context denotes anything rejected as unfit for use. i. Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, when the Lord has not commanded it? No; he has more reason to be thankful for life than to complain of any of the burdens and calamities of life. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. it is perished! The Lamentations are the expression of a heart full of love for the earthly people of Jehovah, a people punished for their sins by loosing their kingdom, their land, their city and their sanctuary. The living man should be grateful he still has life, and recognize there is some justice in the punishment of his sins. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 2. Verse Lamentations 3:60. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. Their eyes, which now run down with water, shall still wait upon the Lord their God until he have mercy upon them, Ps 123 2. That God will graciously return to his people with seasonable comforts according to the time that he has afflicted them, v. 31, 32. Verse 22. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. It is just with God to make those who walk in the crooked paths of sin, crossing God's laws, walk in the crooked paths of affliction, crossing their designs and breaking their measures. "Let them be dealt with according to the threatenings: Thy curse unto them; that is, let thy curse come upon them, all the evils that are pronounced in thy word against the enemies of thy people, v. 65. Those curses came upon Jerusalem in Jeremiahs day; now he prayed that those curses come upon their enemies. 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. God's compassions fail not; of this we have fresh instances every morning. How great soever his affliction may be, he is still alive; therefore, he may seek and find mercy unto eternal life. That, whatever men's lot is, it is God that orders it: Out of the mouth of the Most High do not evil and good proceed? The wormwood and the gall. Others have been consumed round about us, and we ourselves have been in the consuming, and yet we are not consumed; we are out of the grave; we are out of hell. That, when God does cause grief, it is for wise and holy ends, and he takes not delight in our calamities, v. 33. He has led me and made me walk 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Yet. a. Note, All the events of divine Providence are the products of a divine counsel; whatever is done God has the directing of it, and the works of his hands agree with the words of his mouth; he speaks, and it is done, so easily, so effectually are all his purposes fulfilled. Lamentations 3:3 "Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day." The course of God's providence toward me is quite altered, his hand, that is, his power, which was accustomed to being with me, and for me, against my enemies, is now turned against me. Where there was a way open it is now quite made up: He has compassed me on ever side with gall and travel; I vex, and fret, and tire myself, to find a way of escape, but can find none, v. 7. When we are in affliction, 1. But, if we accommodate ourselves to him, though we be chastened of the Lord we shall not be condemned with the world. The sufferers in the captivity must submit to the will of God in all their sufferings. Luke-Acts though thou knowest not what thy enemies meditate against thee; yet he who loves thee does, and will infallibly defeat all their plots, and save thee. Do not fear: How powerful is this word when spoken by the Spirit of the Lord to a disconsolate heart. 1. That though he makes use of men as his hand, or rather instruments in his hand, for the correcting of his people, yet he is far from being pleased with the injustice of their proceedings and the wrong they do them, v. 34-36. He does indeed afflict, and grieve the children of men; all their grievances and afflictions are from him. English Standard Version. Verse 52. Of this, death would deprive him; therefore let not a living man complain. (Clarke), ii. From my sighing, my cry for help: He dared not even to complain, nor to cry, nor to pray aloud: he was obliged to whisper his prayer to God. We are men, and not angels, and therefore cannot expect to be free from troubles as they are; we are not inhabitants of that world where there is no sorrow, but this where there is nothing but sorrow. Shall a man complain? 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. i. Note, It is common for base and ill-natured men to run upon, and run down, those that have fallen into the depths of distress from the height of honour. That he is not able to discern any way of escape or deliverance (v. 5): "He has built against me, as forts and batteries are built against a besieged city. Repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands: God had repaid Jerusalem and Judah for all their sin and disobedience. What hope is there of either peace or prosperity? Minor Prophets 2023 Christianity.com. ( Lamentations 3:1-21) "I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2. The Whole Bible God has access to the spirit, and can so embitter that as thereby to embitter all the enjoyments; as, when the stomach is foul, whatever is eaten sours in it: "He has made me drunk with wormwood, so intoxicated me with the sense of my afflictions that I know not what to say or do. He has bent His bow That is, Thou wilt give it to them freely, and without reserve; intimating that God felt no longer any bowels of compassion for them. The prophet therefore considers them on the utmost verge of final reprobation: another plunge, and they are lost for ever. Give them despondence of heart" (so others read it); "let them be driven to despair, and give themselves up for gone." 2. Lamentations 3 - I am the man who has seen affliction by - Bible Gateway They complain of the lamentable destruction that their enemies made of them (v. 47): Fear and a snare have come upon us; the enemies have not only terrified us with those alarms, but prevailed against us by their stratagems, and surprised us with the ambushes they laid for us; and then follows nothing but desolation and destruction, the destruction of the daughter of my people (v. 48), of all the daughters of my city, v. 51. Though God was righteous, they were unrighteous. It is no pleasure to God to afflict men. d. He shuts out my prayer: When things are right with our relationship with God, He is our refuge and defense in affliction.

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