Introduction12345JeremiahEzekiel Introduction to Lamentations The affections of the
remnant to the King and those of the assembly
The Lamentations of
Jeremiah—a touching expression of the interest which
God feels in the afflictions which His people undergo on
account of their sins—will not require much
explanation as to the general meaning of the book. A few
remarks may be useful, to shew the true character of this
book, and its connection with the dealings of God, as
revealed to us elsewhere. The first interesting
point—to which I have already alluded—is that
the affliction of His people does not escape the eye of
God. He is afflicted in their affliction: His Spirit
takes knowledge of it; and, acting in the heart of those
whose mouth He uses, gives expression to the feelings He
has produced there. Thus Christ wept over the
hard-heartedness of Jerusalem, and invited its
inhabitants to do so likewise. And here also His Spirit
not only reproves and reveals things to come; He gives a
form to the grief of those who love what God loves, and
furnishes the expression of it Himself.
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