Lamentations 4

But when they came to consider which child it should be, their hearts so relented and yearned over each one that they resolved rather to all die together. Yes, we read in Lamentations 4:10: The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. But why speak of these ext…

Nor can it be doubted, that this divine intimation, which he received in his individual and private capacity, was intended generally for the confirmation of all the godly. Jesus is called the Lord's Christ, because he was anointed It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader, t…

So long as any splendor of royalty continued in the family of David, the kings were wont to be called χριστοί, anointed. Every reader of the Bible is familiar with the phrase, the Lord's anointed, as applied to David and his successors, (2 Samuel 19:21; Lamentations 4:20.) — Ed.…

Nor do they endeavour to shew that any thing here mentioned to fall out with the cutting off the Messiah, has the least relation to Cyrus or his death. And if because Cyrus is once called the Anointed of the Lord, he must be supposed to be intended in that place, where no one wo…

It's clear that it was near those parts above mentioned. First, from Lamentations 4:2[reconstructed: 1], where the Prophet Jeremiah speaking of Uz, says, Rejoice and be glad O daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. And Jeremiah 25:20, he speaks again of the land of Uz,…

When God shoots into a land the evil arrows of famine, and it becomes exceeding sore, this is one of the most dreadful judgments of all judgments in this world, far beyond plague, or fire, or sword. See how pathetically the famine among the Jews is described by Jeremiah in his L…

That night most of the Londoners had taken their last sleep in their houses; they little thought it would be so when they went into their beds; they did not in the least suspect, when the doors of their ears were unlocked, and the casement of their eyes were opened in the mornin…

(1 Peter 2:23) Who when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. And Jeremiah who mourned so, for sin as he desired his head were waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, that he might both be…

Again, there is no church so safe, (as we do think ourselves now, and as the Palatinate did think themselves) but that yet the Lord can make a sudden change, and bring them down, as well as he could raise these dry bones; and as he has done to others already. This you shall see…

They were trampled upon as the filth of the world; and whereas the offscouring of anything is bad enough, they were looked upon as the offscouring of all things; even to this day; after they had in so many instances approved themselves well, and could not but be made manifest in…

So is this great and wide Sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great Beasts, Psalm 104. 24, 25. And we read, Lamentations 4:3. of Sea-Monsters, which draw out their Breasts to their young. Pliny and Purchas tell incredible stories about them.

Whiteness is the badge of innocency and holiness. It is said of the Nazarites for their typical holiness, they were purer than snow, and whiter than milk (Lamentations 4:7). And the Prophet shows us, that scarlet, red, and crimson, are the colors of sin and guilt, whiteness of i…

2. Their obedience to his precepts: and so whoever will be true to his religion, and live according to his baptismal vow, is set up for a sign of contradiction to be spoken against. It is supposed the mocking by the heathen of the Jews is intended in these words (Lamentations 4:…

When a man is disappointed of the things he looks for, then his eyes are said to fail. So the captive Jews complained (Lamentations 4:17): "As for us, our eyes have yet failed for our vain help: in our watching, we have waited for a nation that could not save us." 1. God may del…

Every true believer is a rich lump of gold before the Lord. Of such persons it is said in Lamentations 4:2, they are the precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold. There are diverse properties in gold, which a good man will have a blessed resemblance of.

He has not his felicity, nor his security in himself, but must have it from abroad; and if he have it, he must have an object that is able to derive it to him, on whom he may rely; else his trust will be vain, and his expectation frustrate. Hence their complaint on this account…

Our sufferings may be lasting, but not everlasting. Affliction is compared to a cup (Lamentations 4:21); the wicked drink of a sea of wrath which has no bottom and will never be emptied, but it is only a cup of martyrdom, and God will say: Let this cup pass away. The rod of the…

In his death, husbands saw the death of their wives, and wives the loss of their husbands, and both the loss of their children. So great and bitter was this lamentation, that it was written in a book of lamentations, and all the singing men and women had turned all their songs i…