3. Thou hast showed thy people hard things. Nothing
had happened by chance, but all had come by divine design and with a purpose;
yet for all that things had gone hard with Israel. The psalmist claims that
they were still the Lord’s own people, though in the first verse he had said, “thou hast cast us off.” The
language of complaint is usually confused, and faith in time of trouble ere
long contradicts the desponding statements of the flesh. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. The grapes of the vineyard of sin
produce a wine which fills the most hardened with anguish when justice compels
them to quaff the cup. There is a fire-water of anguish of soul which even to
the righteous makes a cup of trembling, which causes them to be exceeding
sorrowful almost unto death. When grief becomes so habitual as to be our drink,
and to take the place of our joys, becoming our only wine, then are we in an
evil case indeed.
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