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The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate.
It prevails - Or, …

Trodden under foot. —Better, has made contemptible, as those who are weighed in the balance and found wanting.

She first says that all her valiant men had been trodden underfoot. We know how much the Jews trusted in their men, even…

The Lord has trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the
midst of me
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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 prophet describes in detail the misery of their servitude.
He addresses this in two parts:
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes