But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Ver. 14. But Zion said.] The Church hath her vicissitudes of joy and sorrow; mercies and crosses are interwoven; God checkereth his providences white and black; he speckleth his work. as Zec 1:8
The Lord hath forsaken me.] No, never: Non deserit Deus, etiamsi deserere videatur; non deserit etiamsi deserat, a God may withdraw, but not utterly desert his; he may change his dispensation, not his disposition toward them.
My Lord hath forgotten me.] My Lord still, though little enjoyed at present. So Psalms 22:1. Plato could say that a man might believe, and yet not believe. "I believe," saith he in the gospel, "help mine unbelief" - that is, my weak and wavering faith.
a Augustine.