Lam 1:12-16 | TSK | e4.org | Is it nothing or, It is nothing pass by Heb. pass by the way if The church in distress here magnifies her affliction; and yet no more than there was cause for her groaning was not heavier than her strokes. She appeals to all spectators - see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. This might truly be said of the griefs which were suffered in Jerusalem of old; but Christians are apt to apply these words too sensibly and sensitively to themselves, when they are in trouble, and sometimes more than there is reasonable cause to warrant. All men feel most from their own burden, and cannot be persuaded to reconcile themselves to it; how often do thy cry out in the words we are illustrating! whereas, if their troubles were to be thrown into a common stock with those of others, and then an equal dividend made, share and share alike, rather than approve such an arrangement, each would be ready to say, "Pray give me my own again."

‏ Lamentations 1:12-16

Is it nothing or, It is nothing

pass by Heb. pass by the way

if The church in distress here magnifies her affliction; and yet no more than there was cause for her groaning was not heavier than her strokes. She appeals to all spectators - see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. This might truly be said of the griefs which were suffered in Jerusalem of old; but Christians are apt to apply these words too sensibly and sensitively to themselves, when they are in trouble, and sometimes more than there is reasonable cause to warrant. All men feel most from their own burden, and cannot be persuaded to reconcile themselves to it; how often do thy cry out in the words we are illustrating! whereas, if their troubles were to be thrown into a common stock with those of others, and then an equal dividend made, share and share alike, rather than approve such an arrangement, each would be ready to say, "Pray give me my own again." - Henry. Lam 2:13, Lam 4:6-11; Dan 9:12; Matt 24:21; Luke 21:22-23, Luke 23:28-31

above Lam 2:3-4; Deut 32:21-25; Job 30:30; Ps 22:14, Ps 31:10, Ps 102:3-5; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:16; 2Thess 1:8; Heb 12:29

he hath spread Lam 4:17-20; Job 18:8, Job 19:6; Ps 66:11; Ezek 12:13, Ezek 17:20, Ezek 32:3; Hos 7:12

he hath turned Ps 35:4, Ps 70:2-3, Ps 129:5; Isa 42:17

desolate Lam 1:22, Lam 5:17; Deut 28:65; Jer 4:19-29

yoke Deut 28:48; Prov 5:22; Isa 14:25, Isa 47:6; Jer 27:8, Jer 27:12, Jer 28:14

delivered Jer 25:9, Jer 34:20-21, Jer 37:17, Jer 39:1-9; Ezek 11:9, Ezek 21:31, Ezek 23:28, Ezek 25:4, Ezek 25:7; Hos 5:14

trodden 2Kgs 9:33, 2Kgs 24:14-16, 2Kgs 25:4-7; Ps 119:118; Isa 5:5, Isa 28:18; Jer 50:26 *marg. Dan 3:13; Mic 7:10; Mal 4:3; Luke 21:24; Heb 10:29

crush Lam 3:34; Deut 28:33; Judg 10:8 *marg. Jer 51:34

the virgin etc. or, the winepress of the virgin, etc. Jer 14:17

as in Isa 63:3; Rev 14:19-20, Rev 19:15

I weep Lam 1:2, Lam 1:9, Lam 2:11, Lam 2:18, Lam 3:48-49; Ps 119:136; Jer 9:1, Jer 9:10, Jer 13:17, Jer 14:17; Luke 19:41-44; Rom 9:1-3

relieve Heb. bring back, Hos 9:12

my children Lam 1:5-6, Lam 2:20-22, Lam 4:2-10; Jer 9:21