Lamentations 3:55-56 I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.… 1. The experience of God's former favour is a notable provocation to cause us still to trust in Him again in our necessities (Psalm 4:1). (1) It argueth that we are engrafted unto Christ, and therefore shall be loved unto the end, seeing God changeth not. (2) God is always ready to show mercy and to forgive; and therefore He will do it one time as well as another. 2. The prayer of the godly ought to come from the heart, and to be with greatest fervency that may be. (1) God will not be dallied with, but looketh to the inward affection. (2) We must groan under the burden of that we would be rid of, and long for that we desire, before God will hear us. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.WEB: I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. |
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