Reasons for the resignation urged in the previous triplet.

He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him. He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there may be hope. He gives his ch…

We saw in the last Lecture that the best and only true remedy for sorrows is when the faithful are convinced that they are chastised only by the pa…

But though he cause grief
As he sometimes does in his own people; by convincing them of sin, and producing in them g…

Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that th…

Here he shows the divine mercy regarding the relaxation of punishment.

First, he presents the release from punishments: the Lord will …