And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
I make an interruption to the reading of the Chapter here, only to remark the beauty and gracefulness of the Prophet's observation: that though in the midst of suffering, there is no injustice. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. It is blessed when God condemns us, that we still can and do approve of Him. The just Lord can do no iniquity. Zephaniah 3:20. Ezra, Nehemiah, Job; all the faithful have acknowledged this. Ezra 9:13; Nehemiah 9:33; Job 9:12-21.