My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand. Sermons
I. THE CONSCIOUSNESS SORROW, DESOLATION, AND SHAME. How extreme is the distress and humiliation here depicted is apparent from the fact that this language has been attributed to our Divine Saviour when hanging upon the cross of Calvary. If a city never endured sorrow like that of Jerusalem, certainly no human being ever experienced agonies so piercing as those which the Captain of our salvation willingly bore for our sake when he gave his life a ransom for many. "All ye that pass by, To the Saviour draw nigh; To you is it nothing that Jesus should die? For sins not his own He died to atone; Was pain or was sorrow like his ever known?" II. THE ADMISSION THAT AFFLICTION IS OF DIVINE APPOINTMENT, THAT IT IS CHASTISEMENT. When Jerusalem came to herself she could not fail to recognize a Divine hand in the miseries which befell her. The scourge was the army of the Chaldeans, but the hand was the righteous and retributive hand of the Eternal. It is too common for those who are in trouble to murmur against Providence, to exclaim against the injustice of providential appointments. Yet true wisdom points out that the path of submission and resignation is the right path. When once the mind is brought to acknowledge, "It is the Lord!" there is a prospect of spiritual improvement. III. THE CRY FOR SYMPATHY. By a striking figure of speech, Jerusalem is presented as calling upon surrounding nations for interest and compassion. "Is it nothing to you? ... Behold, and see!" Human sympathy is welcome in seasons of sorrow, Yet true help and deliverance must be from God, and from God alone, It is better to call upon the Lord than to call upon man; for he is both ready to sympathize and mighty to save. - T. II. Its sense of DEGRADATION. It feels itself held m a miserable vassalage, carnally sold under sin. III. Its sense of RETRIBUTION. It feels that the heavy, degrading yoke is bound by "His hand," the hand of justice: that his transgression is like a chain wreathed by retributive law upon the neck. The guilty conscience awakened feels that God is in all its sufferings, that there is justice in all. (Homilist.) (1) (2) (3) 2. When God meaneth to punish us for our sins, He calleth them all to remembrance. (1) (2) 3. When God meaneth to correct, He will so do it as it cannot be escaped. 4. God giveth strength and courage to men, and taketh it away at His pleasure (Deuteronomy 28:7, 25). 5. The issue of battle is in the hand of God alone (Psalm 44:3). 6. God often delivereth His servants into the hands of the ungodly. (1) (2) 7. God sometimes afflicteth His people so grievously that their state seemeth desperate and irrecoverable in the judgment of flesh and blood. (1) (2) (J. Udall.) People Jacob, JeremiahPlaces Jerusalem, ZionTopics Able, Bound, Caused, Delivered, Fail, Fall, Fastened, Handed, Hands, Impressed, Joined, Kept, Knit, Neck, Power, Rise, Sapped, Sins, Stand, Strength, Stumble, Transgressions, Watch, Withstand, Woven, Wrapped, Wreathed, YokeOutline 1. The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews lamented12. The attention of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case 18. The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated. Dictionary of Bible Themes Lamentations 1:14Library No Sorrow Like Messiah's SorrowIs it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold, and see, if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow! A lthough the Scriptures of the Old Testament, the law of Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophecies (Luke 24:44) , bear an harmonious testimony to MESSIAH ; it is not necessary to suppose that every single passage has an immediate and direct relation to Him. A method of exposition has frequently obtained [frequently been in vogue], of a fanciful and allegorical cast [contrivance], under the pretext … John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1 Epistle vi. To Narses, Patrician . "Come unto Me, all Ye that Labour, and are Wearied," &C. Meditations for one that is Like to Die. Concerning the Sacrament of Baptism Lamentations Links Lamentations 1:14 NIVLamentations 1:14 NLT Lamentations 1:14 ESV Lamentations 1:14 NASB Lamentations 1:14 KJV Lamentations 1:14 Bible Apps Lamentations 1:14 Parallel Lamentations 1:14 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 1:14 Chinese Bible Lamentations 1:14 French Bible Lamentations 1:14 German Bible Lamentations 1:14 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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