Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Lamentations 1:8
(I Kings 8:46).
is removed—as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. So Lamentations 1:17; Leviticus 12:2; Leviticus 15:19, etc.
her nakedness—They have treated her as contumeliously as courtesans from whom their clothes are stripped.
turneth backward—as modest women do from shame, that is, she is cast down from all hope of restoration [CALVIN].
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