“After an enumeration of many penalties (in Chapter 2) the despair of the people is excluded. Such exclusion is divided twofold. First, despair is considered by appeals, second, is the argument for a fidelity that must be acceptable. Third, an assumed faithfulness turns the people to prayer for (divine) mercy. On despa…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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1I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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— Lamentations 3:1 —
2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.