Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:52-55

"They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon." — Lamentations 3:52-55 (ASV)

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

He said, "I am cut off," yet he called upon the name of the Lord out of the low dungeon into which his enemies had cast him. What a mercy it is that God's servants are often as graciously inconsistent as Jeremiah was just then! They are afraid that the Lord will not hear them, yet they continue to pray to him. They are afraid that they are cast off forever, yet they will still use the privilege of a child of God, and cry to him, though they doubt whether they have a child's right to do so. Go on, beloved, with that blessed inconsistency, and the Lord will bless you in it.