The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate.

(Lamentations 1:13)

It prevails - Or, …

Is it nothing to you ... —Literally, Not to you, you passers by, which the Authorised version takes as a question. The Se…

The beginning of the verse is variously explained. Some read it interrogatively, Is it nothing to you who pass by the way? Others more sim…

[Is it] nothing to you, all you that pass by ?
&c.] O you strangers and travellers that pass by, and see my distress…

Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferi…

Here the author presents the complaint from the city herself and its people, which has two parts:

1. First, she complains to those presen…