My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
      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,