Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
anguish—namely, occasioned by the attack of the enemy.
daughter of Zion—There is peculiar beauty in suppressing the name of the person in trouble, until that trouble had been fully described [HENDERSON].
bewaileth herself—rather, "draweth her breath short" [HORSLEY]; "panteth."
spreadeth . . . hands— (Lamentations 1:17).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 4:31:
Jeremiah 30:6
Lamentations 1:17
Mark 13:8
Luke 21:10
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