Lamentations 1:21

Lamentations 1:21

19 “I called for my lovers,
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.

20 “See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
My ^asoul is troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
^bOutside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.

21 “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are ^aglad that You have done it.
Bring on ^bthe day You have announced,
That they may become like me.

22 “Let^a all their wickedness come before You,
And do to them as You have done to me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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they are glad that thou hast done it—because they thought that therefore Judah is irretrievably ruined (Jeremiah 40:3).

the day . . . called—(but) thou wilt bring on them the day of calamity which thou hast announced, namely, by the prophets (Jer. 50:1-46; Jeremiah 48:27).

like . . . me—in calamities (Psalms 137:8-9; Jeremiah 51:25, etc.).

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