geneva@Lamentations:3:1 @ I [am] the man [that] hath seen (note:)The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he declared the destruction of Jerusalem, as in (Jer_20:1-2).(:note) affliction by the rod of his wrath.
geneva@Lamentations:3:5 @ He hath (note:)He speaks this as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diversity of words.(:note) built against me, and surrounded [me] with gall and labour.
geneva@Lamentations:3:8 @ Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my (note:)This is a great temptation for the godly when they do not see the fruit of their prayers and causes them to think that they are not heard, which thing God uses so that they might pray more earnestly and often.(:note) prayer.
geneva@Lamentations:3:9 @ He hath (note:)And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.(:note) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
geneva@Lamentations:3:15 @ He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (note:)With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense.(:note) wormwood.
geneva@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, My strength and my (note:)Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the victory.(:note) hope hath perished from the LORD:
geneva@Lamentations:3:20 @ My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled (note:)He shows that God thus uses to exercise his, to the intent that by this they may know themselves, and feel his mercies.(:note) in me.
geneva@Lamentations:3:22 @ [It is of] the LORD'S (note:)Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, (Isa_1:9).(:note) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
geneva@Lamentations:3:23 @ [They are] new (note:)We feel your benefits daily.(:note) every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
geneva@Lamentations:3:24 @ The LORD [is] my (note:)The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as (Psa_16:5).(:note) portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
geneva@Lamentations:3:27 @ [It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his (note:)He shows that we can never begin too soon to be exercised under the cross, that when the afflictions grow greater, our patience also by experience may be stronger.(:note) youth.
geneva@Lamentations:3:28 @ He sitteth alone (note:)He murmurs not against God, but is patient.(:note) and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
geneva@Lamentations:3:29 @ He putteth his (note:)He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waits for comfort.(:note) mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
geneva@Lamentations:3:32 @ But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
geneva@Lamentations:3:33 @ For he doth not (note:)He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.(:note) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
geneva@Lamentations:3:36 @ To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord (note:)He does not delight in it.(:note) approveth not.
geneva@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord (note:)He shows that nothing is done without God's providence.(:note) commandeth [it] not?
geneva@Lamentations:3:38 @ Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not (note:)That is, adversity and prosperity, (Amo_3:6).(:note) evil and good?
geneva@Lamentations:3:39 @ Why doth a living (note:)When God afflicts him.(:note) man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
geneva@Lamentations:3:41 @ Let us lift up (note:)That is, both hearts and hands: for else to lift up the hands is but hypocrisy.(:note) our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens.
geneva@Lamentations:3:51 @ My eye (note:)I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people.(:note) affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
geneva@Lamentations:3:53 @ They have cut off my life (note:)Read (Jer_37:16) how he was in the miry dungeon.(:note) in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
geneva@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my (note:)Meaning, the reason his life was in danger.(:note) soul; thou hast redeemed my life.