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哀歌 3:33
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
afflict: Isaiah 28:21, Ezekiel 18:32, Ezekiel 33:11, Hebrews 12:9, Hebrews 12:10
willingly: Heb. from his heart
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 24:25 - So the Lord 2 Chronicles 12:12 - when Job 37:23 - he will Ezekiel 18:23 - I any Hosea 6:1 - he hath torn Hosea 11:8 - How shall I give Luke 7:13 - he John 21:17 - grieved 1 Peter 1:6 - if
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he doth not afflict willingly,.... Or, "from his heart" e; he does afflict; for all afflictions are from God, but they do not come from the mere motion of his heart, or are the effects of his sovereign will and pleasure, as the good things he bestows upon his people do, without any respect to any cause or occasion in them; but sin is the cause and occasion of these, as Jarchi well observes: it is with reluctance the Lord afflicts his people; he is as it were forced to it, speaking after the manner of men; see Hosea 11:8; he does not do it with delight and pleasure; he delights in mercy, but judgment is his strange act; nor does he do it with all his heart and soul, with all his might and strength; he does not stir up all his wrath: for then the spirit would fail before him, and the souls that he has made; and especially he does not do it out of ill will, but in love, and for their good:
nor grieve the children of men: that is, he does not from his heart, or willingly, grieve the children of men, by, afflicting them; which must be understood of those sons of men whom he has loved, and made his sons and heirs; those sons of men that wisdom's delights were with from everlasting, Proverbs 8:31.
e מלבו "ex corde suo", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Reasons for the resignation urged in the previous triplet.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 33. For he doth not afflict willingly — It is no pleasure to God to afflict men. He takes no delight in our pain and misery: yet, like a tender and intelligent parent, he uses the rod; not to gratify himself, but to profit and save us.
