Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?… 1. The only way of remedy in our greatest miseries is to call upon God in fervent prayer. (1) It declareth that we are humbled and our pride broken, in confessing no power to be in ourselves, and seeking help elsewhere. (2) He is of greatest power, and none else can help us. (3) He will have all the glory of our deliverance (Psalm 50:15). 2. By this vehement kind of speech we learn that in right prayer to God the frame of our words must be according to our affection. 3. The chief reason to move the Lord to pity us is the remembrance of His covenant of mercy in Christ. 4. God's wrath overturneth the course of nature in those against whom it is bent. 5. There is sufficient cause and matter in all the infants of God's people, why God should in His justice destroy them (Psalm 51:5). 6. Cruelty exercised by the hands of the wicked upon children and ministers is a special means to move God to hear us when we pray for them. 7. There is no privilege of peace that can free us from punishment when we sin against the Lord. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? |
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