Lamentations 2:6-9 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly… 1. It is the duty of God's people to labour their affections, that they may be rightly touched with the loss of the outward exercises of religion. 2. When God is angry with His people, He will take from them the outward signs of His favour. 3. When God's people grow obstinate in their sins, He spoileth them of all those things wherein they trust. 4. when the Church is spoiled, the commonwealth cannot go free. 5. The wicked could never prevail against the godly, but that God giveth them into their hands. 6. God giveth the wicked (for the sins of His people) occasion to blaspheme His name and to deride His holy ordinances. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. |
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