You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
He adds here a conclusion; for he has hitherto been relating, as I have said, the evils which he suffered, and also the reproaches and unjust oppressions, in order that; he might have God propitious to him; for this is the way of conciliating favor when we are wrongfully dealt with; for it cannot be but that God will sustain our cause.
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
From the lowest pit the Prophet calls on God's name; the perfect tense here means what has already happened and still continues to happen. This pit of the lower regions is the grave itself, the symbol of mortal danger, yet from it the call to God reaches upward to the highest heavens.
AI summary
Commenting on Lamentations 3:55-66