Lamentations 3:14-21 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.… 1. There is no meditation that is available to further in godliness, but that which is earnest and effectual. (1) Else it moveth not the heart. (2) Nothing else prevaileth with the affections. 2. The heart must be thoroughly touched before we can profit by any action of religion that we take in hand. (1) Every point of religion concerneth principally the heart. (2) God accepteth nothing but that which proceedeth from the heart. 3. When we are thoroughly affected with any part of God's Word, or His works, then do we much consider of it, and cannot easily forget it. (1) Because it hath taken root in the heart, which is the fountain of all serious meditations. (2) It setteth the affections on work, to digest it, unto the end whereunto the heart desireth to bring it. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.WEB: I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
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