You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
When we cry 'Lord, You have seen,' we do not waste words. Trial makes us imagine God has turned away; flesh tempts us to despair. We must shake off unbelief and feel assured that He sees all their cruelty and wicked counsels against us. This certainty sustains us when reason says He does not.
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Faith and fear wrestled in the Prophet's breast throughout this lament, but faith gets the last word. He found God heard his prayers even from the lowest dungeon; his weeping never hindered his praying. From such depths a man may find a way of access to God in the highest heavens.
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Commenting on Lamentations 3:55-66
Persecute and destroy them in anger,.... As they have persecuted the people of God, do thou persecute them; and never leave pursuing them untie thou hast made a full end of them, as the effect of vindictive wrath and vengeance: from under the heavens of the Lord; which are made by him, and in which he dwells; let them not have the benefit of them...