Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
The speaker traces his sorrow and suffering directly to divine indignation and wrath. He pictures God as having lifted him up only in order to cast him down. The lifting up makes the casting down the sharper cause of grief, for exaltation is followed by being brought low.
The lament belongs among expressions of the affliction and distress of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity. Its grief is the grief of exile, voiced under the weight of judgment.
It also describes Jacob's trouble as groaning and sorrow and weeping under indignation. That trouble is a period of being brought low, from which God's people are afterward to be recovered.
The speaker traces his sorrow and suffering directly to divine indignation and wrath. He pictures God as having lifted him up only in order to cast him down. The lifting up makes the casting down the sharper cause of grief, for exaltation is followed by being brought low.
The lament belongs among expressions of the affliction and distress of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity. Its grief is the grief of exile, voiced under the weight of judgment.
It also describes Jacob's trouble as groaning and sorrow and weeping under indignation. That trouble is a period of being brought low, from which God's people are afterward to be recovered.