As for my people, children are their oppressors – This undoubtedly refers to their civil rulers. Those who “ought” to have been the…

Children are their oppressors ...—This points, as before (Isaiah 3:4), to the youth and yet more the characte…

The oppressors of any people are children. Here also the madness and foolishness of the people are reproved, because they shut their eyes …

[As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors or rulers; for (vgwn), in the Ethiopic la…

The rule was certain; whatever national prosperity or trouble might exist, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be …

1. For Jerusalem is ruined. Here the author explains the reason for this renunciation.

   First, he presents the immediate caus…