Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Let us search - How are we to get the pardon of our sins? The prophet tells us:
1.Let us examine ourselves.
2."Let us turn again to the Lord."
3."Let us lift up our heart;" let us make fervent prayer and supplication for mercy.
4."Let us lift up our hand;" let us solemnly promise to be his, and bind ourselves in a covenant to be the Lord' s only: so much lifting up the hand to God implies. Or, let us put our heart on our hand, and offer it to God; so some have translated this clause.
5."We have transgressed;" let our confession of sin be fervent and sincere.
6.And to us who profess Christianity it may be added, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as having died for thee; and thou shalt not perish, but have everlasting life.
Lamentations 3:46, Lamentations 3:47, Lamentations 3:48, beginning with phe , should, as to the order of the alphabet, follow Lamentations 3:49, Lamentations 3:50, Lamentations 3:51, which begin with ain , which in its grammatical position precedes the former.
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