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How doth (
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The prophet wonders at the great judgment of God ,
seeing Jerusalem ,
which was so strong and so full of people ,
to be now destroyed and desolate .(:
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the city sit desolate , [
that was ]
full of people ! [
how ]
is she become as a widow !
she [
that was ]
great among the nations ,
Who had chief rule over many provinces and countries . [
and ]
princess among the provinces , [
how ]
is she become a slave !
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She weepeth bitterly in the (
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So that she takes no rest .(:
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night ,
and her tears [
are ]
on her cheeks :
among all her Meaning the Egyptians and Assyrians who promised help .
lovers she hath none to comfort [
her ]:
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her ,
they are become her enemies .
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Judah is gone into captivity because (
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For her cruelty toward the poor and oppression of servants , (
Jer_34
:11 ).(:
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of affliction ,
and because of great servitude :
she dwelleth among the nations ,
she findeth no rest :
all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress .
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The ways of Zion do mourn ,
because none come (
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As they used to come up with mirth and joy , (
Psa_42
:4 ).(:
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to the solemn feasts :
all her gates are desolate :
her priests sigh ,
her virgins are afflicted ,
and she [
is ]
in bitterness .
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Her adversaries (
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That is ,
have rule over her , (
Deu_28
:41 ).(:
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are the head ,
her enemies prosper ;
for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions :
her children are gone into captivity before the enemy .
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And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed :
her princes are become (
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As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage .(:
note )
like harts [
that ]
find no pasture ,
and they are gone without strength before the pursuer .
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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old ,
when her people (
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In her misery she considered the great benefits and commodities that she had lost .(:
note )
fell into the hand of the enemy ,
and none helped her :
the adversaries saw her , [
and ]
mocked at her At her religion and serving of God ,
which was the greatest grief to the godly .
sabbaths .
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Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned ,
therefore shee is in derision :
all that honoured her ,
despise her ,
because they haue seene her filthinesse :
yea ,
she sigheth and turneth backeward .
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The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things :
for she hath seen [
that ]
the nations entered into her sanctuary ,
whom (
note :)
God forbids the Ammonites and Moabites to enter into the congregation of the Lord ,
and under them he comprehends all enemies , (
Deu_23
:3 ).(:
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thou didst command [
that ]
they should not enter into thy congregation .
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All her people sigh and seeke their bread :
they haue giuen their pleasant thinges for meate to refresh the soule :
see ,
O Lorde ,
and consider :
for I am become vile .
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Is it ]
nothing to you ,
all ye that pass by ?
behold ,
and see if there is any (
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Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example .(:
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sorrow like my sorrow ,
which hath fallen upon me ,
with which the LORD hath afflicted [
me ]
in the day of his fierce anger .
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From above hath (
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This declares that we should acknowledge God to be the author of all our afflictions to the intent that we might seek him for remedy .(:
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he sent fire into my bones ,
and it prevaileth against them :
he hath spread a net for my feet ,
he hath turned me back :
he hath made me desolate [
and ]
faint all the day .
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The (
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My heavy sins are continually before his eyes as he that ties a thing to his hand for a reminder .(:
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yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand :
they are knit together , [
and ]
come up upon my neck :
he hath made my strength to fall ,
the Lord hath delivered me into [
their ]
hands , [
from whom ]
I am not able to rise .
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The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [
men ]
in the midst of me :
he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men :
the Lord hath trodden the virgin ,
the daughter of Judah , [
as ]
in a (
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He has trodden them underfoot as they tread grapes in the winepress .(:
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winepress .
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For these things I weepe :
mine eye ,
euen mine eye casteth out water ,
because the comforter that should refresh my soule ,
is farre from me :
my children are desolate ,
because the enemie preuailed .
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Zion spreadeth forth her hands , [
and there is ]
none to comfort her :
the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob , [
that ]
his adversaries [
should be ]
around him :
Jerusalem is (
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Who because of her pollution was separate from her husband , (
Lev_15
:19 )
and was abhorred for the time .(:
note )
as a menstruous woman among them .
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The Lorde is righteous :
for I haue rebelled against his commandement :
heare ,
I pray you ,
all people ,
and behold my sorowe :
my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie .
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I called for my lovers , [
but ]
they deceived me :
my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city ,
while they (
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That is ,
they died for hunger .(:
note )
sought their food to relieve their souls .
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Behold ,
O Lorde ,
howe I am troubled :
my bowels swell :
mine heart is turned within me ,
for I am ful of heauinesse :
the sword spoyleth abroad ,
as death doeth at home .
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They haue heard that I mourne ,
but there is none to comfort mee :
all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble ,
and are glad ,
that thou hast done it :
thou wilt bring the day ,
that thou hast pronounced ,
and they shalbe like vnto me .
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How hath the Lord (
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That is ,
brought her from prosperity to adversity .(:
note )
covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger , [
and ]
cast down from Has given her a most sore fall .
heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel ,
and remembered not his Alluding to the temple ,
or to the ark of the covenant ,
which was called the footstool of the Lord ,
because they would not set their minds so low ,
but lift up their heart toward the heavens .
footstool in the day of his anger !
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The Lord hath destroyed al the habitations of Iaakob , &
amp ;
not spared :
he hath throwen downe in his wrath ye strong holds of the daughter of Iudah :
he hath cast the downe to ye ground :
he hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof .
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He hath cut off in [
his ]
fierce anger all the (
note :)
Meaning the glory and strength ,
as in (
1Sa_2
:1 ).(:
note )
horn of Israel :
he hath drawn back his That is ,
his comfort which he was wont to send us ,
when our enemies oppressed us .
right hand from before the enemy ,
and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire , [
which ]
devoureth on every side .
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He (
note :)
Showing that there is no remedy but destruction where God is the enemy .(:
note )
hath bent his bow like an enemy :
he stood with his right hand as an adversary ,
and slew all [
that were ]
pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion :
he poured out his fury like fire .
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The Lord was as an enemie :
he hath deuoured Israel ,
and consumed all his palaces :
hee hath destroyed his strong holdes ,
and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah lamentation and mourning .
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For hee hath destroyed his Tabernacle ,
as a garden ,
hee hath destroyed his Congregation :
the Lorde hath caused the feastes and Sabbathes to bee forgotten in Zion ,
and hath despised in the indignation of his wrath the King and the Priest .
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The Lord hath cast off his altar ,
he hath abhorred his sanctuary ,
he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces ;
they have made a (
note :)
As the people were accustomed to praising God to the solemn feasts with a loud voice ,
so now the enemies blaspheme him with shouting and cry .(:
note )
noise in the house of the LORD ,
as in the day of a solemn feast .
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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion :
he hath stretched out a line ,
he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying :
therefore he made the rampart (
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This is a figurative speech as that was ,
when he said the ways lamented , (
Lam_1
:4 )
meaning that this sorrow was so great that the insensible things had their part of it .(:
note )
and the wall to lament ;
they languished together .
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Her gates are sunke to the grounde :
he hath destroyed and broken her barres :
her King and her princes are among the Gentiles :
the Lawe is no more ,
neither can her Prophets receiue any vision from the Lord .
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The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde ,
and keepe silence :
they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades :
they haue girded them selues with sackecloth :
the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground .
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Mine eyes doe saile with teares :
my bowels swell :
my liuer is powred vpon the earth ,
for the destructio of the daughter of my people ,
because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie .
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They haue sayd to their mothers ,
Where is bread and drinke ?
when they swooned as the wounded in the streetes of the citie ,
and whe they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome .
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Thy prophets have (
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Because the false prophets called themselves seers ,
as the others were called ,
therefore he shows that they saw amiss because they did not reprove the people '
s faults ,
but flattered them in their sins ,
which was the cause of their destruction .(:
note )
seen vain and foolish things for thee :
and they have not revealed thy iniquity ,
to turn away thy captivity ;
but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment .
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All that passe by the way ,
clap their hands at thee :
they hisse and wagge their head vpon the daughter Ierusalem ,
saying ,
Is this the citie that men call ,
The perfection of beautie ,
and the ioye of the whole earth ?
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All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee :
they hisse and gnashe the teeth ,
saying ,
Let vs deuoure it :
certainely this is the day that we looked for :
we haue founde and seene it .
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The Lorde hath done that which he had purposed :
he hath fulfilled his worde that he had determined of old time :
he hath throwen downe ,
and not spared :
hee hath caused thine enemie to reioyce ouer thee ,
and set vp the horne of thine aduersaries .
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Their heart cryed vnto the Lord ,
O wall of the daughter Zion ,
let teares runne downe like a riuer ,
day and night :
take thee no rest ,
neither let the apple of thine eye cease .
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Arise ,
cry in the night :
in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord :
lift vp thine handes towarde him for the life of thy yong children ,
that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streetes .
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Beholde ,
O Lord ,
and consider to whome thou hast done thus :
shall the women eate their fruite ,
and children of a spanne long ?
shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord ?
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The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes :
my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde :
thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath :
thou hast killed and not spared .
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Thou hast called as in a solemne daye my terrours rounde about ,
so that in the day of the Lordes wrath none escaped nor remained :
those that I haue nourished and brought vp ,
hath mine enemie consumed .
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I [
am ]
the man [
that ]
hath seen (
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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 .
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He hath ledde mee ,
and brought me into darkenes ,
but not to light .
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Surely he is turned against me :
he turneth his hand against me all the day .
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My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde ,
and he hath broken my bones .
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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 .
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He hath set me in darke places ,
as they that be dead for euer .
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He hath hedged about mee ,
that I cannot get out :
he hath made my chaines heauy .
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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 .(:
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prayer .
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He hath (
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And keeps me in hold as a prisoner .(:
note )
inclosed my ways with hewn stone ,
he hath made my paths crooked .
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He hath stopped my wayes ,
and pulled me in pieces :
he hath made me desolate .
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He hath bent his bow &
amp ;
made me a marke for the arrow .
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Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines .
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I was a derision to all my people ,
and their song all the day .
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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 .
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He hath also broken my teeth with stones ,
and hath couered me with ashes .
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Thus my soule was farre off from peace :
I forgate prosperitie ,
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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 :
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Remembring mine affliction , &
amp ;
my mourning ,
the wormewood and the gall .
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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 .
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I consider this in mine heart :
therefore haue I hope .
* [
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 .
* [
They are ]
new (
note :)
We feel your benefits daily .(:
note )
every morning :
great [
is ]
thy faithfulness .
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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 .
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The Lord is good vnto them ,
that trust in him ,
and to the soule that seeketh him .
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It is good both to trust ,
and to waite for the saluation of the Lord .
* [
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 .
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He sitteth alone (
note :)
He murmurs not against God ,
but is patient .(:
note )
and keepeth silence ,
because he hath borne [
it ]
upon him .
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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 .
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Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him :
he is filled full with reproches .
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For the Lord will not forsake for euer .
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But though he sende affliction ,
yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies .
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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 .
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In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth ,
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In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high ,
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To subvert a man in his cause ,
the Lord (
note :)
He does not delight in it .(:
note )
approveth not .
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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 ?
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not (
note :)
That is ,
adversity and prosperity , (
Amo_3
:6 ).(:
note )
evil and good ?
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Why doth a living (
note :)
When God afflicts him .(:
note )
man complain ,
a man for the punishment of his sins ?
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Let vs search and try our wayes ,
and turne againe to the Lord .
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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 .
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We haue sinned ,
and haue rebelled ,
therefore thou hast not spared .
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Thou hast couered vs with wrath ,
and persecuted vs :
thou hast slaine and not spared .
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Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude ,
that our prayer should not passe through .
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Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people .
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All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs .
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Feare ,
and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction .
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Mine eye casteth out riuers of water ,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people .
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Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not ,
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Till the Lorde looke downe ,
and beholde from heauen .
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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 .
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Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde ,
without cause .
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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 .
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Waters flowed ouer mine head ,
then thought I ,
I am destroyed .
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I called vpon thy Name ,
O Lorde ,
out of the lowe dungeon .
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Thou hast heard my voyce :
stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry .
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Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee :
thou saydest ,
Feare not .
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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 .
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O Lorde ,
thou hast seene my wrong ,
iudge thou my cause .
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Thou hast seene all their vengeance ,
and all their deuises against me .
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Thou hast heard their reproch ,
O Lord ,
and all their imaginations against me :
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The lippes also of those that rose against me ,
and their whispering against me continually .
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Behold ,
their sitting downe and their rising vp ,
how I am their song .
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Giue them a recompence ,
O Lord ,
according to the worke of their handes .
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Giue them sorow of heart ,
euen thy curse to them .
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Persecute with wrath &
amp ;
destroy them from vnder the heauen ,
O Lord .
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How is the (
note :)
By the gold he means the princes ,
as by the stones he understands the priests .(:
note )
gold become dim ! [
how ]
is the most fine gold changed !
the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street .
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The precious sons of Zion ,
comparable to fine gold ,
how are they esteemed as earthen (
note :)
Which are of small value and have no honour .(:
note )
pitchers ,
the work of the hands of the potter !
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Even the sea monsters (
note :)
Though the dragons are cruel ,
yet they pity their young ,
and nourish them ,
which Jerusalem does not do .(:
note )
draw out the breast ,
they nurse their young ones :
the daughter of my people [
is become ]
cruel ,
like the The women forsake their children as the ostrich does her eggs , (
Job_39
:17 ).
ostriches in the wilderness .
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The tongue of the sucking childe cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst :
the yong children aske bread ,
but no man breaketh it vnto them .
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They that did feede delicately ,
perish in the streetes :
they that were brought vp in skarlet ,
embrace the dongue .
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For the iniquitie of the daughter of my people is become greater then the sinne of Sodom ,
that was destroyed as in a moment , &
amp ;
none pitched campes against her .
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Her Nazarites were purer then the snowe , &
amp ;
whiter then ye milke :
they were more ruddie in bodie ,
then the redde precious stones ;
they were like polished saphir .
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Their (
note :)
They who were before most in God '
s favour are now in greatest abomination to him .(:
note )
visage is blacker than a coal ;
they are not known in the streets :
their skin cleaveth to their bones ;
it is withered ,
it is become like a stick .
* [
They that are ]
slain with the sword are better than [
they that are ]
slain with hunger :
for these pine away ,
stricken through for [
lack of ]
the (
note :)
For lack of food they pine away and consume .(:
note )
fruits of the field .
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The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children ,
which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people .
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The Lord hath accomplished his indignation :
he hath powred out his fierce wrath ,
he hath kindled a fire in Zion ,
which hath deuoured the foundations thereof .
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The Kings of the earth ,
and all the inhabitants of the world would not haue beleeued that the aduersarie and the enemie should haue entred into the gates of Ierusalem :
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For the sins of her prophets , [
and ]
the iniquities of her priests ,
that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of (
note :)
He means that these things are come to pass therefore ,
contrary to all men '
s expectations .(:
note )
her ,
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They have wandered [
as ]
blind [
men ] (
note :)
Some refer this to the blind men who as they went ,
stumbled on the blood ,
of which the city was full .(:
note )
in the streets ,
they have polluted themselves with blood ,
so that Meaning the heathen who came to destroy them could not abide them .
men could not touch their garments .
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But they cried vnto them ,
Depart ,
ye polluted ,
depart ,
depart ,
touch not :
therefore they fled away ,
and wandered :
they haue sayd among the heathen ,
They shal no more dwell there .
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The anger of the LORD hath divided them ;
he will no longer regard them : (
note :)
That is ,
the enemies .(:
note )
they respected not the persons of the priests ,
they favoured not the elders .
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As for us ,
our eyes as yet failed for our vain help :
in our watching we have watched for (
note :)
He shows two principal causes for their destruction :
their cruelty and their vain confidence in man :
for they trusted in the help of the Egyptians .(:
note )
a nation [
that ]
could not save [
us ].
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They hunt our steppes that we cannot goe in our streetes :
our ende is neere ,
our dayes are fulfilled ,
for our ende is come .
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Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen :
they pursued vs vpon the mountaines ,
and layed waite for vs in the wildernes .
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The (
note :)
Our king Josiah ,
in whom stood our hope of God '
s favour and on whom depended our state and life was slain ,
whom he calls anointed ,
because he was a figure of Christ .(:
note )
breath of our nostrils ,
the anointed of the LORD ,
was taken in their pits ,
of whom we said ,
Under his shadow we shall live among the nations .
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Rejoice and be glad , (
note :)
This is spoken by derision .(:
note )
O daughter of Edom ,
that dwellest in the land of Uz ;
the cup also shall pass through to thee :
thou shalt be drunk ,
and shalt make thyself naked .
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The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished ,
O daughter of Zion ;
he (
note :)
He comforts the Church because after seventy years their sorrows will have an end while the wicked would be tormented for ever .(:
note )
will no more carry thee away into captivity :
he will visit thy iniquity ,
O daughter of Edom ;
he will disclose thy sins .
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Remember ,
O LORD ,
what is come upon us : (
note :)
This prayer as is thought ,
was made when some of the people were carried away captive ,
others such as the poorest remained ,
and some went into Egypt and other places for comfort ,
though it seems that the prophet foreseeing their miseries to come ,
thus prayed .(:
note )
consider ,
and behold our reproach .
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Our inheritance is turned to the strangers ,
our houses to the aliants .
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We are fatherles ,
euen without father ,
and our mothers are as widowes .
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We have drank our (
note :)
Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage .(:
note )
water for money ;
our wood is sold to us .
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Our neckes are vnder persecution :
we are wearie ,
and haue no rest .
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We have given the (
note :)
We are joined in league and amity with them ,
or have submitted ourselves to them .(:
note )
hand [
to ]
the Egyptians , [
and to ]
the Assyrians ,
to be satisfied with bread .
*
Our fathers have sinned , [
and are ]
not ;
and we have borne (
note :)
As our fathers have been punished for their sins :
so we that are guilty of the same sins are punished .(:
note )
their iniquities .
*
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs ,
none would deliuer vs out of their hands .
*
We procured our bread with [
the peril of ]
our lives because of the sword (
note :)
Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food .(:
note )
of the wilderness .
*
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine .
*
They defiled the women in Zion ,
and the maydes in the cities of Iudah .
*
Princes were hung up by (
note :)
That is ,
by the enemies hand .(:
note )
their hand :
the faces of elders were not honoured .
*
They took the young men to grind ,
and the children fell under (
note :)
Their slavery was so great ,
that they were not able to abide it .(:
note )
the wood .
*
The elders have ceased from the (
note :)
There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth .(:
note )
gate ,
the young men from their music .
*
The ioy of our heart is gone ,
our daunce is turned into mourning .
*
The crowne of our head is fallen :
wo nowe vnto vs ,
that we haue sinned .
*
For this our heart is faint ;
for these [
things ]
our (
note :)
With weeping .(:
note )
eyes are dim .
*
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate :
the foxes runne vpon it .
*
Thou ,
O LORD ,
remainest for (
note :)
And therefore your covenant and mercies can never fail .(:
note )
ever ;
thy throne from generation to generation .
*
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer ,
and forsake vs so long time ?
*
*
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs :
thou art exceedingly angry against vs .
*
Tell ye the (
note :)
The city of Sion .
This is a Hebrew idiom ,
common in the Lamentations of Jeremiah .(:
note )
daughter of Sion ,
Behold ,
thy King cometh unto thee ,
meek ,
and sitting upon an ass ,
and a colt the foal of an ass .