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1. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill.

They complain of the contempt of their neighbours and the reproach and ignominy they were under (Lamentations 3:45): "Thou hast made us as the off-scouring, or scrapings, of the first floor, which are thrown to the dunghill." 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope. They were acknowledging that He had reached the limits of His patience. Note, The prolonging of troubles is sometimes a temptation, even to praying people, to question whether God be what they have always believed him to be, a prayer-hearing God. He never afflicts us but when we give him cause to do it. 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. טוב, Lamentations 3:26 and Lamentations 3:27, followed by ל dat., means to be good for one, i.e., beneficial. He who can bear contempt and reproach, and not render railing for railing, and bitterness for bitterness, who, when he is filled full with reproach, keeps it to himself, and does not retort it and empty it again upon those who filled him with it, but pours it out before the Lord (as those did, Psalm 123:4, whose souls were exceedingly filled with the contempt of the proud), he shall find that it is good to bear the yoke, that it shall turn to his spiritual advantage. Lamentations 3 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, filling six volumes, provides an exhaustive look at every verse in the Bible. Whatever we are robbed of our portion is safe. They complain of the lamentable destruction that their enemies made of them (Lamentations 3:47): 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 (Lamentations 3:48), of all the daughters of my city, Lamentations 3:51. Their sins were repented of, and yet (Lamentations 3:42), Thou hast not pardoned. He that has seasonably succoured particular saints will not fail the church in general. II. That he was ready to despair of relief and deliverance: "Thou hast not only taken peace from me, but hast removed my soul far off from peace (Lamentations 3:17), so that it is not only not within reach, but no within view. Persecute and destroy them in anger, as they persecute and destroy us in their anger. They wanted vengeance, they were filled with reproach towards him, and they got together and spoke with animosity against him. The Chaldean forces broke in upon them as the breaking forth of waters, which rose so high as to flow over their heads they could not wade, they could not swim, and therefore must unavoidably sink. In Lamentations 3:17 it is a question whether תּזנח is second or third pers.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. 3. Here have three vivid pictures of the prophet’s sufferings.

Note, The Israel of God, though children of light, sometimes walk in darkness. Observe here, 1. "I am chained and as some notorious malefactors are double-fettered, and loaded with irons, so he has made my chain heavy. And we must thus humble ourselves, if so be there may be hope, or (as it is in the original) peradventure there is hope. Thus sometimes God seems to be angry even against the prayers of his people (Psalm 80:4), and their case is deplorable indeed when they are denied not only the benefit of an answer, but the comfort of acceptance. 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, Lamentations 3:7. "Commentary on Lamentations 3:4". For though the Lord might make him endure grief, He will have compassion on him in accordance with the multitude of His lovingkindnesses and mercies, His covenant love. All should be allowed full access to Him, and be given justice when their cases are tried before Him. Had we been dealt with according to our sins, we should have been consumed long ago but we have been dealt with according to God's mercies, and we are bound to acknowledge it to his praise.

Note, Whatever hard things we suffer, we must never entertain any hard thoughts of God, but must still be ready to own that he is both kind and faithful.

This is the result of their searching and trying their ways the more they enquired into them the worse they found them. The more I look upon the desolation of the city and country the more I am grieved. Surely against me is he turned — The course of his providence toward me is quite altered.



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