Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
The verb may be imperative or prayer, remember my affliction and trouble, my gall and poison. But mark this: a soul overwhelmed by evils opens the door to despair, and Satan will fill it. The faithful must hold a middle course: rouse yourself to see your afflictions plainly, yet do not dwell so much on them that sorrow swallows you whole.
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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
Whether this is a statement or a prayer, remember my affliction, my misery, the people groaning under judgment have not yet cast off prayer before God. Once more they look up to Him, beseeching that in His mercy He would remember them in their distress and deliver them, for none but He can do it.
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