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

(Lamentations 1:13)

It prevails - Or, …

For these things ... —The unparalleled misery finds vent in a flood of bitterest tears. We note the emphasis of iteration in mine eye,…

He describes in detail the calamities of Jerusalem. It is no wonder that the Prophet thus extended his discourse, for we know that those who are he…

For these [things] I weep
The congregation of Judah, the godly among them, particularly Jeremiah, who represented th…

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 weeps over the withdrawal of consolation.