Lamentations 3:31-36 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:… God is the greatest of Kings and potentates, but yet has nothing of a tyrant in His nature. It is no pastime to Him to view the miseries of the distressed, to hear the cries of the orphans or sighs of the widow. He seems to share in the suffering while He inflicts it, and to feel the very pain of His own blows while they, fall heavy upon the poor sinner. Judgment is called God's "strange work," a work that He has no proneness to, nor finds complacency in. He never lops and prunes us with His judgments, because He delights to see us bare, but because He would make us fruitful. Common humanity never uses the lance to pain and torture, but to restore the patient. But now the care and tenderness of an earthly parent or physician is but a faint shadow and resemblance of that infinite compassion which God bears to His children, even in the midst of His severest usage of them. (R. South.) Parallel Verses KJV: For the Lord will not cast off for ever: |
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