April 29

Lamentations 1:12
“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” — Lamentations 1:1212Is 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. (Lamentations 1:12).
WHILE these words, primarily, express the grief of God’s afflicted people of Judah when the judgments of the Lord fell upon them, yet they may most suitably be used to express the sorrow of our blessed Lord when He, the true Israel, stood in the place of His people, and bore as our representative the wrath of God against sin, on the cross in those dark hours when the sun was blotted from view and His holy soul was made an offering for sin. Never was there sorrow like His. None other ever endured that which He passed through when all the waves and billows of wrath rolled over His soul. How our hearts should adore Him for such matchless grace as He there exhibited on our behalf!
“Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by,
Beholding the Saviour uplifted on high,
Maltreated by men and forsaken by God,
Oh, why is He nailed to that cross of wood?”