Unsanctified Affliction
G. Brooks. Jeremiah 5:3-8 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them… I. SOME OF THE FORMS OF UNSANCTIFIED AFFLICTION. 1. Insensibility. 2. Hardihood. II. SOME OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THIS EVIL MAY BE KEPT AWAY. 1. By seeking ascertain and to accomplish the design of our affliction. 2. By repressing every tendency to murmuring or impatience. 3. By avoiding immoderate sorrow. (G. Brooks.) Parallel Verses KJV: O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. WEB: O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.