Lamentations 2:11-13 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people… 1. The true ministers of God do take the miseries of the Church to heart in the greatest measure. 2. Our sorrow, humiliation, earnest prayer, and all other means of extraordinary calling upon God, must increase in us, so long as God's heavy hand is upon us. 3. Hearty sorrow for spiritual miseries distempereth the whole body. 4. The sorrows of the soul will easily consume the body. 5. A lively member is grieved with the hurt of the body, or any member thereof. 6. The ministers of Christ should have a tender affection to the members of the Church, as a man hath to his daughter. 7. There is no outward thing so much cause of sorrow, as the miseries laid upon our children in our sight. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. |
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