Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Men wear themselves out in sin because they never look within. Strip back the cover from your ways and search them honestly; this alone stops the useless torment. True examination ends not in despair but in return to God, for when we acknowledge we have strayed from Him, we turn to His mercy and seek a new life.
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No design of man comes to pass unless God ordains it; the Chaldeans said they would destroy Jerusalem, but it happened because God commanded it. Men are tools in God's hands, managing themselves as He pleases, and nothing they contrive succeeds unless His counsel determined it beforehand.
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Commenting on Lamentations 3:37-41
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,.... With wrath and anger, as a cloud; he wrapped up himself in thick darkness, so as not to be seen or come at: sin, when it appears not pardoned, is as a cloud between God and his people; and this causes him to show his anger and displeasure; which is the cloud about him, Or the hiding of his face.