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Lamentations 3:34
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32 Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
33 For aHe does not afflict willingly,
Nor grieve the children of men. 
34 To crush under one’s feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the justice due a man
Before the face of the Most High,
36 Or subvert a man in his cause—
aThe Lord does not approve. 
37 Who is he awho speaks and it comes to pass,
When the Lord has not commanded it? 
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That awoe and well-being proceed? 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Lamentations 3:34-36

This triplet has an infinitive in the beginning of each verse, the governing finite verb being in the end of Lamentations 3:36, "the Lord approveth not," which is to be repeated in each verse. Jeremiah here anticipates and answers the objections which the Jews might start, that it was by His connivance they were "crushed under the feet" of those who "turned aside the right of a man." God approves (literally, "seeth," Habakkuk 1:13; so "behold," "look on," that is, look on with approval) not of such unrighteous acts; and so the Jews may look for deliverance and the punishment of their foes.


 
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