Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
When we cry 'Lord, You have seen,' we do not waste words. Trial makes us imagine God has turned away; flesh tempts us to despair. We must shake off unbelief and feel assured that He sees all their cruelty and wicked counsels against us. This certainty sustains us when reason says He does not.
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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
The psalmist calls for God to pursue His enemies with the same relentless force they used against His people, and to blot them out entirely from under His heavens. This is vindictive wrath rightly belonging to God alone, not a prayer for mere restraint, but for complete and final destruction of those who have persecuted the faithful.
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