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

(Lamentations 1:13)

It prevails - Or, …

From above ... —The words are probably figurative. The judgments that had fallen on Jerusalem were as a fire from heaven, piercing…

The Prophet proceeds with the same subject: that God’s vengeance had raged most dreadfully against Jerusalem. But employing a metaphor, she says th…

From above has he sent fire into my bones Which the Targum interprets of her fortified cities, towns, or castles; as Jeru…

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 he presents the severity of the discipline, in that he educated them like a schoolmaster with harsh punishments.

1. He presents the …