Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
In these two verses is the same sad image as appears in the well-known medal of Titus, struck to celebrate his triumph over Jerusalem. A woman sits weeping beneath a palm-tree, and below is the legend "Judaea capta."
Translate Lamentations 1:1 :
How sitteth solitary the city that was full of people:
She is become as a widow that was great among the nations:
A princess among provinces she is become a vassal.
Tributary - In the sense of personal labor Joshua 16:10.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Lamentations 1:1:
Song of Solomon 7:4
Lamentations 1:1
Ezekiel 3:15
Joel 2:9
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