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1. God's people do acknowledge His justice in all His works, yea, even in His punishments laid upon them.

(1) His Word and Spirit hath reformed their judgments, teaching them how to think of His holy majesty in all things.

(2) The consciousness of their own sins causeth them to justify the Lord, and to accuse themselves.

2. It is the duty of God's children to seek the cause of all their evils in themselves.

(1) God is righteous, and layeth nothing upon them but what they justly deserve.

(2) They know their own manifold sins, and their exceeding weakness in well-doing, which they cannot see in any others.

3. Though God punish us oft for other causes, yet the matter that He worketh upon is our sins.

4. We must not lessen our sins, but account them most heinous in our own eyes.

5. It is our duty (especially in religion) neither to go further nor to come shorter than God's revealed will; but attend unto it as the servant's eye doth unto his master's hand (Psalm 123:2).

6. It is rebellion against the Lord Himself to be disobedient unto the voice of His ministers teaching His truth (Luke 10:16).

7. We are constrained in our adversity to acknowledge God's hand in those things which in our prosperity we neglected.

8. When God's people are punished, they are not ashamed but willing to tell all men of it, and to declare their sins to be the cause of it.

(1) Above all things they desire to have the Lord justified in all men's judgments.

(2) They desire that their own example may teach others to serve God better.

9. The manifesting of our punishments unto the world as from God's hand because of our sins can neither dishonour the Lord nor harden others in their wickedness, but is a just occasion of the contrary.

(J. Udall.)

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KJV: The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

WEB: Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.