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Patience with People
Commentators like Calvin and Barnes explain that it is often harder to endure suffering inflicted by other people than it is to accept hardship that seems to come directly from God. This verse calls the faithful to a higher form of patience, meekly bearing personal insults and injuries while recognizing God's sovereign hand is still at work.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:28–30
18th Century
Theologian
Translate:
Let him sit alone and keep silence;
For He (God) hath laid the yoke upon him.
Let him place his mouth in the dust;
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:30
19th Century
Bishop
He giveth his cheek ... — The submission required reaches its highest point—a patience like that of Job 16:10; we may add…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:28–33
19th Century
Preacher
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…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:30
16th Century
Theologian
Here he mentions another fruit of patience: that the faithful, even when wronged by the wicked, should still be calm and resigned.
For many …
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:30
17th Century
Pastor
He gives [his] cheek to him that smites him Either to God that afflicts him, and patiently bears it; see ([Reference Isai…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:21–36
17th Century
Minister
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…