Homilist Lamentations 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up on my neck: he has made my strength to fall… I. Its sense of OPPRESSION. It feels itself under a "yoke." It is heavy iron a crushing "yoke" is sin It is on the neck, there is no breaking away from it. 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.) Parallel Verses KJV: The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. |
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