Let us commence our service this
afternoon by singing together hymn number 712 to the dune Pemberton,
389. Come hither ye that fame would
know the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Come see a scene of matchless
woe and tell me what it all can mean. Hymn 712, tune Pemberton
389. ? And would love thee dearly ?
? In the last thousand years ? ? You of Tennessee ? ? Of Magisport
? to be one in all. For I cannot, I'm sceptical,
if I think He has given us His loving and
gracious, His mercy and O'er the ramparts we watched,
were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the
bombs bursting in air, ? Holy and strong ? ? All praise
for thee ? ? Our God is here ? ? Tis justly ? It's high above, within this
church of love divine. It is here, To see the joy of sin's acclaim. Deeply we treasure We have died here, and have sunk
there, But heard of him, the Lord in heaven. In heaven, ? Sustain the rage ? ? In them thou'st
taught, thou'st fed ? ? Give me life again ? ? Whatever
chance we may have ? ? Give me life again ? Let's read together from the
Holy Word of God in the Gospel according to Luke and chapter
22 and we'll commence our reading at verse 39. Luke chapter 22, commence reading
at verse 39. And he came out and went as he
was want to the Mount of Olives. and his disciple also followed
him. And when he was at the place,
he said unto them, pray that ye enter not into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled
down and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this
cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but
thine be done. And there appeared an angel unto
him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony, he
prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was, as it were,
great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when
he rose up from prayer and was come to his disciples, he found
them sleeping for sorrow and said unto them, why sleep ye?
Rise and pray. lest ye enter into temptation. And while he get spake, behold,
a multitude, he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went
before him and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus
said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? When they which were about him
saw what would follow, They said unto him, Lord, shall we smite
with the sword? And one of them smote the servant
of the high priest and cut off his right ear. And Jesus answered
and said, suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear and healed
him. Then Jesus said unto the chief
priests and captains of the temple and the elders which were come
to him, Be ye come out as against a thief, and with swords and
staves. When I was daily with you in
the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me. But this
is your hour, and the power of darkness. Then took they him, and led him, and brought him
into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and
were set down together, Peter sat down among them. But a certain
maid beheld him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked
upon him and said, this man was also with him. And he denied
him, saying, woman, I know him not. And after a little while,
another saw him and said thou art also of them and Peter said
man I am not and about the space of one hour after another confidently
affirmed saying of a truth this fellow also was with him for
he is a Galilean and Peter said man I know not what thou sayest
and immediately while he yet spake the cock crow. And the
Lord turned and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word
of the Lord, how he had said unto him before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out and wept bitterly. And the men that howled, Jesus
mocked him and smote him. And when they had blindfolded
him, they struck him on the face and asked him, saying, prophesy,
who is it that smote thee? And many other things blasphemously
spake they against him. And as soon as it was day, the
elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes
came together and led him into their council. saying, Art thou
the Christ? Tell us. And he said unto them,
If I tell you, you will not believe. And if I also ask you, you will
not answer me, nor let me go. Hereafter shall the Son of Man
sit on the right hand of the power of God. Then said they
all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye
say that I am? And they said, What need we any
further witness? For we ourselves have heard of
his own mouth. May the Lord bless the reading
of his own precious word and grant to us a spirit of real
prayer. Almighty, most merciful and eternal God, we have read some deeply solemn
things in thy holy word of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus
Christ. And we think of those precious
words he laid upon him, the iniquity of us all. And Lord Jesus thou
was willing to suffer, to bleed and to die for the sins of thy
people. and that, Lord, we would be no
better left to ourselves than thy servant Peter, who denied
this race. But we pray for grace to follow
thee. We pray for grace to be steadfast
in believing. We pray for grace to lay aside
every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us, and
that we might run with patience the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame thereof, and is now set down at the right hand of
his Father. O Lord, we pray for that precious
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to fill our hearts and our minds
and to steel us for the future battle and to deliver us from
temptation, and to deliver us from the power and dominion of
sin and the workings of Satan. Guide us, O Lord, we do beseech
thee, but for thy great name's sake. Guide us, O thou great
Jehovah, pilgrims in a barren land. We are weak, but thou art
mighty. Hold us with thy powerful hand.
Bread of heaven, feed us now. and evermore. Strengthen us this
afternoon with the bread of life. Meet with us as we gather round
thy table. Grant thy sweet presence and
grant that spirit of meditation upon our suffering saviour, upon
what the cost was to redeem us and to deliver us from all evil. And grant, O Lord, that we may
not deny thee but that we may follow thee whithersoever thou
goest. And, O Lord God, we do pray,
remember us as a church and as a congregation, work mightily,
work powerfully, work effectually among us, and graciously grant
that thy work may yet appear and thy power be seen in the
conversion of sinners, in the bringing of poor sinners to faith
in Jesus Christ, that they may become true followers of thee,
and of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hear us, O Lord, we humbly beseech thee, and do bless us. Increase
our faith, increase our love, O Lord, we do beseech thee. Help
us to love each other, to serve each other, to bear each other's
burdens, thereby fulfilling the law of Christ. Oh Lord, we do
pray that thou wouldst work mightily in the dear children, the little
ones, and the children, that the fear of the Lord, which is
the beginning of wisdom, may be given unto them, and that
they may be richly blessed of thee. And we do pray that thou
wouldst guide and direct them in all matters. We do humbly
pray. Remember the young friends. and
graciously bless them and those that are away from us at this
time, remember them for good. We do humbly beseech thee and
graciously guide and direct them and bring them to living faith
in Jesus Christ. Remember parents, give wisdom,
give grace, give understanding to rightly direct the family
and give them grace to do that which is right in thy sight and
bring up the children, the nurture, and the admonition of the Lord,
we do humbly beseech thee. And O Lord, do deliver us from
evil, deliver us from temptation, for thine is the kingdom, the
power, and the glory, and we depend entirely upon thee. We
cannot depend upon ourselves. For Lord, we are poor, wretched,
ruined sinners, undone altogether, and we need thy grace continually.
We pray for grace to lay aside every way, to enable us so to
do. O Lord, we do beseech thee. We
pray to be made more spiritually minded and our affection set
upon things above. And O Lord, we do pray that thou
in thy precious mercy would remember all in the midst of the journey
of life and undertake for each one. Remember the prodigals cause
them to return. Deliver us from temptation, whether
the enemy comes as an angel of light to deceive us, or whether
he comes as a roaring lion to devour us. We pray to be delivered
from his power, as promised in thy word, that when the enemy
comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard
against him. O Lord, grant that it may be
so. Be the master of assemblies here, As we gather round thy
word and as we gather round thy table, grant thy sacred presence
and thy rich blessing. We do humbly beseech of thee. And, O Lord, we do pray that
thou wouldst remember those of us that are now in the evening
time of life's journey, that thou wouldst remember us with
the favour that thou bearest unto thy people, that thou wouldst
visit us with thy great salvation, that we may have that gracious
preparation. And we pray that there may be
a generation raised up to call thee the Redeemer blessed, to
be gathered in. Hear us, Lord, we humbly pray
thee. Have mercy upon us, we beseech
thee. And that we pray that the word
of the Lord distributed may be richly blessed of thee, that
there may be an abundant harvest in due season. And we pray that
thou wilt bless the text on the wall in the front of the chapel.
that as people pass by, it may be a word that should be breathed
into their heart by the Holy Ghost. We do humbly beseech of
thee. Hear us, O Lord. We thank thee
for every mercy, for every favour. We thank thee especially for
the glories of Christ and the wonders of redeeming love. We
will bow in humble adoration before thy glorious majesty.
We thank Thee that God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten
Son. We thank Thee that the Son of
God dwelt among us. Oh, what may we this afternoon
behold His glory, the glory as if the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth, and that we may behold Him in our
room place instead. Hear us, O Lord, we pray Thee,
and do forgive us of all our sins, of all our wanderings,
of all our backsliding. We leave undone things that we
ought to do. We do things that we ought not
to do. We find a law within our members that when we would do
good, then evil is present with us. And we mourn because of that
sense and realization that we have of our sinfulness, of our
wretchedness, of our uncleanness. But we pray to be washed in that
precious sin-atoning blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, the blood
of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin. May we feel
its cleansing power. We do humbly beseech you. Blessed
Spirit of truth, we pray that thou wouldst come and seal the
word into our hearts. Open our eyes and our ears that
we may behold wondrous things in thy law. O Lord, we do beseech
thee. So forgive us of all sin. Draw
us with those sweet drawings of a heavenly Father, and give
us that witness of the Spirit of the Aspirate. Yea, I've loved
thee with an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness,
have I drawn thee. Lord, we ask, with the forgiveness
of all sin, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Let us now sing together hymn
number 688. The tune is Theodora, 423. Ye that pass by, behold the man,
the man of grief condemned for you, the Lamb of God for sinners
slain, weeping to Calgary, pursue. Hymn 688. tune Theodora 423. ? I will hold them now ? ? All
I know of thee ? ? Of them I know thee ? ? I have a thought for
sin and sin ? ? We that this day ? ? Are not
proud in our hearts ? ? We think not of things to remember ? ?
We strayed in vain ? ? Can't hear their voice ? ? Let every notion ? ? Come to
its end ? ? The lonely soul ? ? With the head of night ? ? To change that day ? ? String
along me ? ? My precious love ? ? Help me to take ? ? Thy power
? And it's me. greatly feeling to need the Lord's
gracious help or direct her attention to the book of the Lamentations
of Jeremiah, chapter 1, and we'll read verse 12 for our text. The Lamentations of Jeremiah,
chapter 1, verse 12. Is it nothing to you All ye that
pass by, behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,
which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in
the day of his fierce anger. Jeremiah saw the terrible consequences
of his prophecies that the Lord gave him to prophesy against
Jerusalem and against the children of Israel. And he denounced their
sins and their iniquities and their idolatry and their backslidings. And he prophesied that the King
Nebuchadnezzar would take Jerusalem and that the children of Israel
would be taken into the land of captivity. And the unusual thing of course
is that often when the prophets prophesied it was after their
lives were gone that the things were fulfilled, but with Jeremiah
he actually witnessed the fulfilling of the solemn prophecies. And
the book of Lamentations is written to as it were express the deep feelings
of his heart as he witnessed the overthrow of the children
of Israel and the taking into captivity of the royal house.
He witnessed thousands being taken from time into eternity
and tens of thousands being taken into captivity. But here in the midst of these
lamentations concerning Jerusalem and the land of Israel, this
verse stands out. It speaks of the glorious person
of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. If Jeremiah lamented
over Jerusalem, surely those of us that are truly called by
divine grace should lament over the sufferings of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, what we read together in the Gospel of
Luke concerning our Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. And then the following chapter,
it speaks of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Jewish Sanhedrin being judged
by the high priest and his officials. and being judged by Pilate and
then being judged also by Herod. They all condemned him. Herod
washed his hands of him. He said he found no fault in
him. But he was a weak man and he said they must do what they
felt they could do and he gave them permission to crucify him. And the Lord Jesus Christ of
course was being crucified because he was the sin bearer
of his people. We've often pointed out to you, in the Garden of Gethsemane,
what we've just read together, he'd been in an agony, sweat
as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Why? Why those tremendous agonies? And they were. The agonies and the great weakness
he felt there appeared an angel from heaven strengthening him.
Why? Because our gracious eternal
Father laid upon him the iniquity of us all. He was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities
and the Chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
we are healed. You see, he was numbered with
the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many. And what we
have here, is it nothing to you? Or ye that pass by, is it nothing
to you? how that the Lord Jesus was set
at naught, how that the Lord Jesus suffered and bled and died,
was crucified. As the Apostle says in the Philippians,
even the death of the cross wasn't just an ordinary death, was it? It was an agonizing death, even
the death of the cross. But why? Is it nothing to you? Does it mean something to you,
the sufferings of Jesus Christ? Is it nothing to you? All ye
that pass by, behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto
my sorrow. The sorrow of our Lord Jesus
Christ Again in Isaiah chapter 52, it says concerning our Lord
Jesus Christ, His visage was so marred more than any man,
more than the sons of men. Oh, that dear suffering Saviour. We just sung together, is it
nothing to you? You see, all ye that pass by,
Is it nothing to you or ye that pass by? Behold and see if there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. You know friends there is nobody,
not one single person and some people have had to suffer terrible
things. Indeed if we look at it rationally
The dying thieves, being crucified with Christ, naturally in their
bodies had terrible, terrible agonies. It was a terrible form
of punishment, of execution. But with Jesus, he was carrying
the sin of the whole church. And the agony and grief, he said
himself, my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art
thou so far from helping me? So it's the tremendous grief,
sorrow, pain and the weight of the sin of the whole church and
the hiding of his father's face. We cannot even begin to comprehend
if you think of the church of God from Adam's day to the end
of time millions and millions and millions of people and a remnant from those millions
of people the church from the first beginning of man upon earth
to the end of man upon earth and all their sins all their
sins were taken by our heavenly father and they were laid on
his son Jesus Christ. This is the depth of the agonies
and sorrows of our Lord Jesus and this is why as it were he
sweat as it were great drops of blood falling down to the
ground. The tremendous weight and burden of the sin of the
church was was laying on him. And so intense was the suffering. You know friends, unless we see
this part of his suffering, we miss the main part of his suffering.
He suffered in his body, it's true. So did the thieves that
were hung with him. But he suffered far deeper in
his holy soul. That's where his sufferings are.
You know, friends, I've often thought of this and to deny that
Jesus Christ had a soul is to deny the most intense and awful
part of his sufferings because that is where his sufferings
were. It was intense, it was so awful
that we cannot even begin to comprehend the tremendous weight
the sin of the whole church that was laid on him there. Is it
nothing to you? You know, it's Joseph Hart who
so beautifully speaks of the sufferings of Christ in his hymns.
Was it for crimes that I had done? Is that the question in
your heart? In my heart? Was it for crimes
that I had done? He hung and suffered there. Oh,
my beloved friends, is it nothing to you? Does it not mean anything
to you, that dear suffering Saviour? All ye that pass by. You know, when we hear preaching
of Jesus Christ and preaching of the sufferings of Jesus Christ,
preaching of the tremendous payment he made of his holy sacrifice
on Calvary to redeem his people. It makes it seem more intense
my beloved friends when we realize how holy, pure and innocent he
was. He did no sin, neither was guile
found in his mouth and yet He was made sin for us. Christ was made sin for us. That's very beautiful what I
often refer you to because it is so beautiful what the Holy
Spirit has left on record in the epistle to the Corinthians
of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's the last verse. of 2 Corinthians chapter 5, for
he hath made him, this is our gracious eternal father, made
him that is his only begotten son that was manifest in the
flesh, for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin. Christ knew no sin, Christ was
pure, holy and righteous altogether, he was made sin. He made him
to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him, in him. That was his perfect
obedience to the law of the holy God man, living a life of perfect
obedience to the law. He did no sin. Sin is any transgression
of the law of God. He did no sin, neither was guile
found in his mouth. Spotless, innocent and pure,
our great Redeemer stood while Satan's fiery darts he bore and
did resist to blood. Is it nothing to you? Does it
mean nothing to you? Or is there something here that
your soul really desires to lay hold of? Do you understand the language
of the dear apostle that I might know him in the power of his
resurrection, in the fellowship of his sufferings? To have a
little fellowship with Christ in his sufferings, is it nothing
to you? all ye that pass by behold and
see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done
unto me wherewith the lord hath afflicted me in the day of his
fierce anger his fierce anger and that is what christ suffered
And as we say, that is the deeper part of his sufferings. When
his father hid his face from him, and the deep agony of his
soul, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why? Is it nothing to you? Does it
mean anything to you? What a solemn thing. You know
when we're dead in trespasses and in sins and we're impervious
to these profound truths of our most holy faith, we do not feel
anything. Is it nothing to you? All ye that pass by, behold and see there be any sorrow
like unto my sorrow. There isn't, there's nothing
to be compared with the sorrow, with the agony, with the pain,
with the grief, with the desolation of our Lord Jesus Christ. In
Holy Scripture we are given just a little, the Holy Spirit has
left on record just a little of the inward conflict and sufferings
of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary in the Garden
of Gethsemane. My mind in particular, it just
goes to the Psalm 22 and in Psalm 22 it's one of those very deep Messianic Psalms and it speaks
of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and it gives us
just a little insight, the Spirit of God gives us just a little
insight into the inward agonies and griefs of our Lord Jesus
Christ. It commences with the words of
Christ on Calvary, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me? and from the words of my roaring. These are the words of Christ.
Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in
the night season am not silent. See, the Lord Jesus here, expresses
the feelings of his heart. Our fathers trusted in the day,
trusted thou didst deliver them, They cried unto thee and were
delivered. They trusted in thee and were
not confounded. I am a worm. You just think,
think of who Christ is. Think of him and the wonderful
glory of his person. He's the eternal son of the eternal
God, who was manifest in the flesh.
He's the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And yet, This
is the language of Christ here. But I am a worm and no man, a
reproach of men and despised of the people. What a thought,
isn't it? I am a worm. Fear not thou worm
Jacob. The Lord says to Jacob in Isaiah,
fear not thou worm Jacob. But he himself knew what it was
to be like a crawling, wriggling, wreathing worm. But I am a worm,
a no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me. You see,
those that pass by, like we have in our text, all they that see
me laugh me to school, they shoot out the lip, they shake their
head and if we read the account in the Gospels, this is all recorded,
it's exactly what happened when Christ was hanging on the cross
of Calvary. They shake the head saying he
trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, let him deliver
him seeing he delighted in him. And these that pathetic words
of our Lord Jesus, but thou art he that took me out of the womb. Thou didst make me to hope when
I was upon my mother's breast. I was cast upon thee from the
womb. Thou art my God from my mother's
belly. This is the language of Christ.
Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to
help. There's none to help. was alone
in his sufferings. We read that they all forsook
him and fled. Many bulls have compassed me,
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. Could speak
that of the Jewish leaders and of Herod the king, that wicked
king and also of Pilate, the Roman governor. Many bulls have
compassed me, strong bulls of Basement. He was set at nought
by the soldiers of Herod, and he was set at nought by the Roman
soldiers, and Pilate had him scourged. It says in the Book
of Psalms, the plowers plowed upon my back, they made deep
their furrows. That's a prophecy concerning
Christ being scourged. It was a whip of many cords that
was used to scourge a person. And it is said in the Roman times
that they used to weave pieces of wire into the end of those
cords. And so when it was last, it tore
the skin on the back. The plowers plowed upon my back. they made deep their furrows.
You see, my beloved friends, they gaped upon me with their
mouths as a ravening and roaring lion. But this, my beloved friends,
was the wrath of God. It says in our text, his fierce
anger. What is that fierce anger from
God against sin? And it wasn't the sin of Christ
who knew no sin. It was the sin of his church,
his people. That's what it was. And here,
we're given just a little insight into the inward agonies and sorrows. I am poured out like water. All
my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is mounted
in the midst of my bowels. strength is dried up and my tongue
cleaveth to my jaws and that's brought me into the dust of death
he's the Lord of life he's the Lord of glory and yet he's brought
into the dust of death he loved not his soul unto death
he freely gave his life I have power to lay down my life and
I have power to take it again, this commandment have I received
of my Father. Thou hast brought me into the
dust of death. For dogs have compassed me, the
assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. You think of Christ there
in the judgment hall, the various judgment hall, it wasn't just
one, The Judgment Hall of Pilate, the Judgment Hall of the Jews,
the Judgment Hall of Herod, he was brought into all those places. The assembly of the wicked have
enclosed me. And it speaks here of how he
was so emancipated in his physical human frame. I may tell all my
bones They look and stare upon me. They part my garments among
them and cast lots upon my vesture. We know that this happened, they
cast lots upon his vesture, and this is a prophecy concerning
it. And then we have the prayer of
Christ. But be not thou far from me,
O Lord. O my strength, haste thee to
help me, deliver my soul from the sword, my darling, she's
speaking there of his soul, my darling from the power of the
dog, save me from the lion's mouth. And then we have a change. For thou hast heard me from the
horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name. Here
we have resurrection and life. I will declare thy name unto
my brethren. In the midst of the congregation
will I praise thee. This is Christ rising from the
dead. Ye that fear the Lord, praise
him. All ye that the seed of Jacob glorify him and fear him,
all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor
brought the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath he hid
his face from him, but when he cried unto him he heard, my praise
shall be of thee. You see, it goes on in verse
28, for the kingdom is the Lord's and he is the governor among
the nations, that's Christ. He said to the disciples, the
new power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. He speaks
of the spread of the gospel in verse 27, all the ends of the
world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds
of the nation shall worship before thee, for the kingdom is the
Lord's. He's the King of kings, he's
the Lord of lords, for the kingdom is the Lord's, and he is the
governor among the nations. You see, verse 30, a seed shall
serve him. This is a divine promise. A seed
shall serve him. that shall be accounted to the
Lord for a generation. They shall come. Beautiful word. All that the
Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh unto
me I will in no wise cast out. They shall come. Every one of them. Not a who
shall be left behind. Not one soul for whom Christ
was crucified shall be lost. None were. They were chosen by
the Father. They were given to the Son. The
Son, the Eternal Son was made flesh and lived on this earth
and suffered and bled and died for the sins of his people. He
lived as a man under the law, fulfilling the holy law on the
behalf of each one of his children to bring in everlasting righteousness
for his children. And that is what he's done. And
then He offered that holy, that pure, that righteous sacrifice
on the cross of Calvary when the Father had laid upon Him
the iniquity of us all. They shall come. They shall come. And it says here they'll declare
something and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that
shall be born that He had done this. declare his righteousness. Jehovah said, can you the Lord
our righteousness? Is it nothing to you all ye that
pass by? Behold and see if there be any
sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the
Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger You know
friends, as we come to the Lord's table and sit around the table
of the Lord and partake of the bread and of the wine, the Lord
Jesus himself said, this do in remembrance of me, in remembrance
of these sufferings and these sorrows and these agonies that
you passed by and the Lord left this sacred ordinance for us
to remember Him, for us to meditate on the tremendous cost of our
salvation. Oh, my beloved friends, there's
a question here. Is it nothing to you? These sufferings,
these sorrows, these agonies of Christ, is it nothing to you? All ye that pass by, behold and
see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done
unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his
fierce anger. May the Lord add his blessing.