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title: "Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 105 of 107
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/105/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5, section 105. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/105/"
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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.

## 105. Chapter 3 · 2 of 2

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[¶0] 46 Opened at us their mouth Have all our enemies;

[¶1] 47 Fear and the pit have come to us, Desolation and a breach.

[¶2] 48 Rivers of waters mine eye brings down, For the breach of the daughter of my people.

[¶3] 49 Mine eye flows down and rests not; There will be no intermissions,

[¶4] 50 Until Jehovah looks down, And beholds from heaven.

[¶5] 51 Mine eye grieves my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.

[¶6] 52 Hunting they have hunted me as a sparrow, Who are mine enemies without cause;

[¶7] 53 They have made fast in a pit my life, And cast a stone over me;

[¶8] 54 Flowed have waters over my head; I said, I am cut off.

[¶9] 55 I called on thy name, Jehovah, From the deepest pit:

[¶10] 56 My voice hast thou heard; close not thine ear To my groaning, to my cry.

[¶11] 57 Thou didst draw nigh in the day I cried to thee, Thou didst say, “Fear not.”

[¶12] 58 Thou hast, O Lord, pleaded the cause of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.

[¶13] 59 Thou hast seen, e Jehovah, my oppression; Defend my cause.

[¶14] 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance’s, All their counsels against me.

[¶15] 61 Thou hast heard, O Jehovah, their reproaches, All their counsels against me,-

[¶16] 62 The speeches of those who rose against me, And their words against me daily.

[¶17] 63 Look on their sitting down and their rising up; I am their song.

[¶18] 64 Render to them their reward, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.

[¶19] 65 Give them blindness of heart; Thy curse be on them.

[¶20] 66 Pursue them in wrath, and destroy them From under the heavens of Jehovah.