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. No privilege can free the impenitent sinners from the plague that God meaneth to bring upon them, though they persuade themselves otherwise (Jeremiah 7:4). 2. The ruins of kingdoms and strong cities come to pass only by the immutable decree of God; and not by fortune, man's power, or any other thing (Daniel 4:22; 1 Samuel 15:26, 28). 3. The Lord doth both decree HIS judgments and also determine the measure of them (Daniel 4:29). 4. The dumb and senseless creatures do mourn according to their kind when we are punished in them for our sins (Romans 8:22). 5. The sin of men bringeth strongest things to nothing when God calleth them to an account (Isaiah 13:19, 20). 6. God's hand prevaileth as easily against the strongest and most as the weakest and fewest. (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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