Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust on their heads… 1. The wisest of God's servants are at their wit's end, or fall into despair, if they be deprived of their hope, in the promise of God's assistance (Psalm 119:92). 2. Bodily exercises do profit to further lamentations in the day of heaviness, but are no part of God's service in themselves. 3. The extremity of God's judgments do for the time overwhelm God's dearest children in the greatest measure of grief that can be in this life (Psalm 6:3; Psalm 22:1). 4. The most dainty ones are made to stoop when God's hand is heavy upon them for their sins. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. |
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