Lamentations 2:4-5 He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary… 1. Where God is angry, there is nothing to be looked for but destruction and ill success in all things. 2. God punisheth sin in His children in this world as severely as ii they were reprobates. (1) To declare that He is not partial, but hateth sin in those whom He most of all loveth. (2) That it may appear what great wrath remaineth for the ungodly (1 Peter 4:17). 3. Though God show all outward signs of enmity against His Church, yet is His love everlasting thereunto. 4. God's anger is never in vain, but effecteth punishment upon them with whom He is angry. 5. God regardeth not the most precious things that are amongst the sons of men, in respect of declaring His justice against sin. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. |
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