People: peoples, pagan nations.

The Lord is righteous ... — An echo from Jeremiah 12:1; 2 Chronicles 12:6. Misery does its work and issues in repentance. The …

Jerusalem again acknowledges, and more clearly expresses, that she suffered a just punishment. She had previously confessed that her enemies were c…

The Lord is righteous
Or, "righteous [is] he the Lord" {g}; in all these dispensations of his providence, how afflic…

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 captivity, and in this regard, he does three things.

1. He confesses the justice of the judge: the Lord