Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
The Prophet describes here the extremity of all evils, that it availed him nothing to cry and to pray. And yet we know that we are called to do this in all our miseries. “The strongest tower is the name of the Lord, to it will the righteous flee and shall be safe.” (Proverbs 18:10.) Again, “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord...
God is angry with His own people, yet it comes as a rod to correct, not a sword to destroy. Walk in darkness though we may, we must not quarrel with affliction, for His anger is just and His chastening, though grievous now, mixed with mercy.
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Commenting on Lamentations 3:1-20
Also when I cry and shout,.... Cry, because of the distress of the enemy within; "shout", or cry aloud for help from others without; as persons in a prison do, to make them hear and pity their case: thus the prophet in his affliction cried aloud to God; was fervent, earnest, and importunate in prayer; and yet not heard: he shutteth out my prayer; shuts...