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The Pain of Lost Blessings
Commentators highlight a profound spiritual truth: it is often only in times of affliction that we truly remember and appreciate the value of blessings we once took for granted. John Calvin notes that prosperity can make people spiritually 'inebriated' and ungrateful. Jerusalem's painful memory in exile serves as a powerful warning to cherish God's gifts—both spiritual and material—while we have them, lest we only recognize their worth when they are gone.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 1:7
18th Century
Theologian
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction,
And of her homelessness,
All her pleasant things which have been from the days of ol…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 1:7
19th Century
Bishop
Jerusalem remembered. —Better, remembers. The present is contrasted with the past. Still, the “sorrow’s crown of sorrow i…
John Calvin
On Lamentations 1:7
16th Century
Theologian
He confirms the former verse when he says that Jerusalem remembered her desirable things when she was afflicted by God's hand and reduced …
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John Gill
On Lamentations 1:7
17th Century
Pastor
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries
When carried…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 1:1–11
17th Century
Minister
The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person. At other times, Jerusalem, personified as a distressed woman, or some of the Jews are the speakers.…