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title: "Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 104 of 107
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5, section 104. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/104/"
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# Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Jeremiah and Lamentations, volume 5 of 5.

## 104. Chapter 3 · 1 of 2

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[¶0] 1 I am a man who hath seen affliction Through the rod of his indignation’

[¶1] 2 Me hath he led and made to go Into darkness, and not into light.

[¶2] 3 Surely against me is he turned, He turns his hand daily.

[¶3] 4 To grow old hath he made my flesh and my skin, He hath broken my bones.

[¶4] 5 He hath builded against me, And surrounded me with gall and trouble.

[¶5] 6 In darkness hath he made me to lie As the dead for ever.

[¶6] 7 He hath shut me up, that I cannot go forth He hath made heavy my fetter.

[¶7] 8 Even when I cried, and cried aloud, he shut out my prayer.

[¶8] 9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stones, My paths hath he perverted.

[¶9] 10 A bear lying in wait hath he been to me, A lion in his den.

[¶10] 11 My ways hath he perverted, and lie hath torn me, He hath made me a waste.

[¶11] 12 He hath bent his bow, and made me As a mark for the arrow.

[¶12] 13 He hath made to enter into my reins The sons of his quiver.

[¶13] 14 I became a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

[¶14] 15 He hath satiated me with bitterness, He hath filled me with gall.

[¶15] 16 He hath broken with pebbles my teeth, He hath covered me with dust,

[¶16] 17 And far removed from peace is my soul; I have forgotten good.

[¶17] 18 And I said, “Perished hath my strength And my hope from Jehovah;”

[¶18] 19 When I remember my affliction and my trouble, The poison and the gall:

[¶19] 20 Remembering remember does my soul, And it is humbled within me

[¶20] 21 This will I recall to my mind, Therefore will I hope.

[¶21] 22 The mercies of Jehovah! surely they are not consumed; Surely failed not have his compassion’s;

[¶22] 23 Renewed are they in the morning; Great is thy faithfulness.

[¶23] 24 My portion is Jehovah, said my soul, Therefore will I hope in him.

[¶24] 25 Good is Jehovah to him who waits for him, To the soul that seeks him;

[¶25] 26 Good it is to hope and to be silent, As to the salvation of Jehovah;

[¶26] 27 Good it is for a man To bear the yoke in his youth:

[¶27] 28 He will sit apart, and be silent, For he will raise it on himself;

[¶28] 29 He will put in the dust his mouth, If so be that there is hope;

[¶29] 30 He will give to the smiter his cheek, He will be filled with reproaches.

[¶30] 31 For not cast away for ever Will the Lord;

[¶31] 32 For though he causes grief, he will yet show compassion, According to the multitude of his mercies;

[¶32] 33 :For he does not from his heart afflict, Nor cause grief to the children of men.

[¶33] 34 When one tears under his feet All the bound of the earth, —

[¶34] 35 When he perverts man’s judgment Before the face of the Most High, —

[¶35] 36 When he turns a man aside in his causes — The Lord does not regard.

[¶36] 37 Who is this that says, “It was, And God has not commanded it”

[¶37] 38 From the mouth of the Most High Can not good and evil proceed?

[¶38] 39 Why should he weary himself, a living man, And a man in his sins?

[¶39] 40 Let us examine our ways, and search, And turn to Jehovah;

[¶40] 41 Let us lift up our hearts with our hands To God in the heavens.

[¶41] 42 We have sinned, and have been rebellious, Thou hast not spared;

[¶42] 43 Thou hast covered us over in wrath, and pursued us, Thou hast slain and not spared.

[¶43] 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, So that prayer cannot pass through.

[¶44] 45 An offscouring and a refuse hast thou made us In the midst of the nations;