Lecture 22

^1:22^ Thau. Let all their evil be present before you: and make vintage of them, as you have made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.

22. Here he seeks vengeance.

And first, he recalls their fault to mind: let all their evil, their sin, be present before you. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out (Ps 108:14).

Second, he demands punishment: make a vintage of them. Above: for he has made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger (Lam 1:12).

Third, he assigns the cause: for my sighs are many, because of the evils that I suffer from them*. My sorrow is above sorrow* (Jer 8:18).