John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

Patience is impossible without hope, and hope rests on this alone: God will not reject us forever. The faithful endure because they trust He will at last be merciful, though He pours out fresh signs of His wrath. All our afflictions are temporary; His reconciliation is certain.

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Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Here the clouds disperse and hope returns to save the heart from breaking. The church is like Moses's bush: burning yet unconsumed, persecuted by men but not forsaken by God. Though cast down, it is not destroyed, refined as silver in the furnace but never consumed as dross.

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Commenting on Lamentations 3:21-36

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

God afflicts, but not willingly, not from His heart. Sin forces His hand; He acts with reluctance, not delight. Judgment is His strange work. He does not strike with full strength or ill intent, but in love for the good of those He has made His own.

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