“There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.” — Jeremiah 49:23
Little know we what sorrow may be upon the sea at this moment. We are safe in our quiet chamber, but far away on the salt sea the hurricane may be cruelly seeking for the lives of men. Hear how the death fiends howl among the cordage; how every timber starts as the waves beat like battering rams upon the vessel! God help you, poor drenched and wearied ones! My prayer goes up to the great Lord of sea and land, that He will make the storm a calm, and bring you to your desired haven! Nor ought I to offer prayer alone, I should try to benefit those hardy men who risk their lives so constantly. Have I ever done anything for them? What can I do? How often does the…
boisterous sea swallow up the mariner!Thousands of corpses lie where pearls lie deep. There is death-sorrow onthe sea, which is echoed in the long wail of widows and orphans. The saltof the sea is in many eyes of mothers and wives. Remorseless billows, yehave devoured the love of women, and the stay of households. What aresurrection shall there be from the caverns of the deep when the sea givesup her dead! Till then there will be sorrow on the sea. As if in sympathywith the woes of earth, the sea is for ever fretting along a thousand shores,wailing with a sorrowful cry like her own birds, booming with a hollowcrash of unrest, raving with uproarious discontent, chafing with hoarsewrath, or jangling with the voices of ten thousand murmuring pebbles. Theroar of the sea may be joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrowthe wide, wide ocean is even more forlorn than the wide, wide world. Thisis not our rest, and the restless billows tell us so. There is a land wherethere is no more sea — our faces are steadfastly set towards it; we aregoing to the place of which the Lord hath spoken. Till then, we cast oursorrows on the Lord who trod the sea of old, and who maketh a way forHis people through the depths thereof.
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Producer: Todd Adkins
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