Afflicted Anger Attentively Behold Burning Dealt Fallen Fierce Fierceness Inflicted Nothing Pain Pass Passing Rolling Severely Sorrow Suffering Wherewith Wound Wrath
1:12 [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any {n} sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
(n) Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.
1:12 Is it nothing - The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish church.
1:12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were harder to bear, through the sense of guilt. Sorrow for sin must be great sorrow, and must affect the soul. Here we see the evil of sin, and may take warning to flee from the wrath to come. Whatever may be learned from the sufferings of Jerusalem, far more may be learned from the sufferings of Christ. Does he not from the cross speak to every one of us? Does he not say, Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Let all our sorrows lead us to the cross of Christ, lead us to mark his example, and cheerfully to follow him.
Afflicted Anger Dealt Fallen Fierce Inflicted Pain Severely Sorrow Way Wherewith
Afflicted Anger Dealt Fallen Fierce Inflicted Pain Severely Sorrow Way Wherewith
