They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
      I. They confess the righteousness of God in afflicting them (Lamentations 3:42; Lamentations 3:42): We have transgressed and have rebelled. Note, It becomes us, when we are in trouble, to justify God, by owning our sins, and laying the load upon ourselves for them. Call sin a transgression, call it a rebellion, and you do not miscall it. This is the result of their searching and trying their ways; the more they enquired into them the worse they found them. Yet,