Lamentations 2

Ver. 13, 14. What can equal your calamity? Your breaches are like those made by the sea, great and incurable. Your prophets, of your own choosing, instead of charging your sins faithfully upon you, to bring you to repentance, and so prevent those judgments, preached their own flatteries, which hardened you in your sins, and hastened your ruin. 3

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. II.—Terrible is the issue when God becomes our enemy and fights against us. And correspondent to the counsels of his heart are the judgments of his hand: Justly he debases by his judgments those who had debased themselves by their sins, and mingles the blood of sinners with their sacrifices; Yea, deprives of sabbaths and solemn ordinances those who would not religiously observe them. Grievous sorrows follow upon grievous sinning. And men must either mourn over their sins or over the dreadful effects of them. Alas! what a fearful curse it is to be given up to the delusions of unsent and hypocritical ministers! nor is any thing more destructive and damning. It is highly proper, in trouble, to observe the exact agreement between God’s judgments and his word; and to ease our broken hearts by pouring our complaints into his bosom. He alone can help us! and none ever truly sought him in vain