Lamentations 1:19-22 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city… 1. We must not give over, but continue in prayer, though we be not heard in that we entreat for. God hath commanded us to pray without ceasing, and set no time when we shall be heard. 2. God seeth all things; but we must with lamentation lay open our miseries before Him. (1) Mercy is denied to them that hide their sins. (2) Forgiveness is granted upon a free confession. 3. We then pray most earnestly when we feet most sensibly the burden of that we would be rid of, and the want of that we would have. 4. There is no rest or quietness within us, when God presseth us with the weight of our own sins. 5. The godly do always, in the due consideration of their sins, aggravate them against themselves in greatest measure. (1) They see best into their own offences. (2) They measure them by the heavy anger of God, deserved by the same (Luke 18:13). 6. The things that are ordained for our greatest good in this life, do turn to our greatest harm when our sins provoke God's anger to break forth against us. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. |
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