Lamentations 1:2

Lamentations 1:2

Jerusalem in Affliction

1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
^aHow like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The ^bprincess among the provinces
Has become a¹ slave!

2 She ^aweeps bitterly in the ^bnight,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

3 ^aJudah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
^bShe dwells among the¹ nations,
She finds no ^crest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

4 The roads to Zion mourn
Because no one comes to the¹ set feasts.
All her gates are ^adesolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.

5 Her adversaries ^ahave become the master,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has afflicted her
^bBecause of the multitude of her transgressions.
Her ^cchildren have gone into captivity before the enemy.

6 And from the daughter of Zion
All her splendor has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
That¹ find no pasture,
That flee without strength
Before the pursuer.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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in the night—even in the night, the period of rest and oblivion of griefs (Job 7:3).

lovers . . . friends—the heathen states allied to Judah, and their idols. The idols whom she "loved" (Jeremiah 2:20-25) could not comfort her. Her former allies would not: nay, some "treacherously" joined her enemies against her (II Kings 24:2, II Kings 24:7; Psalms 137:7).

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