The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 3:34-39

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

These two triads form a transition to the renewed complaints and appeals for help in the following verses. The first triad is probably an amplification of the statement that "the Lord doth not afflict willingly."

This being the ease, the injustice which darkens human life cannot be approved by him.

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