Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old… 1. In the time of affliction we do better consider of the blessings that our prosperity yielded unto us, than when we enjoyed them. 2. The time of adversity is fit, wherein we may best recount the prosperity that in former times we have enjoyed. 3. God often maketh an men adversaries to His children, that they may learn to rest on Him alone. 4. The enemies of religion do inquire into the decay of God's Church, and rejoice at it. 5. It is a certain note of an enemy to religion, to mock and deride the exercises of the same. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. |
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