1. The wisest of God’s servants are at their wit’s end, or fall into despair, if they be deprived of their hope, in the promise of God’s assistance (Psa_119:92).
2. Bodily exercises do profit to further lamentations in the day of heaviness, but are no part of God’s service in themselves.
3. The extremity of God’s judgments do for the time overwhelm God’s dearest children in the greatest measure of grief that can be in this life (Psa_6:3; Psa_22:1).
4. The most dainty ones are made to stoop when God’s hand is heavy upon them for their sins. (J. Udall.)
