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Lamentations 1:22

Lamentations 1:22

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Let all their wickedness come before thee,.... The Targum adds,"in the day of the great judgment;''but it seems to refer to present time, at least to the time fixed by the Lord for their ruin; and which the church imprecates, not from a spirit of revenge, but from a holy zeal for the glory of God; desiring that the wickedness of her enemies might be remembered by the Lord, so as to punish them in righteous judgment for the same:and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions; she owns that what was done to her was for her sins, and therefore could not charge God with injustice; only she desires the same might be done to her enemies, who were equally guilty: some render it, "glean them" ; or rather, "gather them as a vintage"; or as grapes are gathered: "as thou hast gathered me"; as thou hast took me, and cast me into the winepress of thy wrath, and there hast trodden and squeezed me; see La 1:15; so do unto them:for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint; her sighs were many because of her afflictions, and her heart faint because of her sighing.

wml llwe epifullison autoiv, Sept. "vindemia", V. L. Vatablus.

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