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Grief with a Purpose
Commentators explain that when God causes grief, it is not because He enjoys it. Rather, like a loving father, He uses affliction for a gracious purpose. This chastisement is meant to produce repentance, humility, and to wean believers from the world, ultimately working for their good.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:31–33
18th Century
Theologian
Reasons for the resignation urged in the previous triplet.
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…
John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:32
16th Century
Theologian
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…
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John Gill
On Lamentations 3:32
17th Century
Pastor
But though he cause grief
As he sometimes does in his own people; by convincing them of sin, and producing in them g…
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…