Lovers ... friends - that is, the states in alliance with Judea, and all human helpers.

She weepeth sore in the night. —The intensity of the sorrow is emphasized by the fact that the tears do not cease even in…

Jeremiah still pursues the same subject, for he could not have spoken briefly and in a few words of things so bitter and mournful; and he seems to …

She weepeth sore in the night
Or, "weeping weeps" ^F9 ; two weepings, one for the first, the other for the…

The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person. At other times, Jerusalem, personified as a distressed woman, or some of the Jews are the speakers.…

Here, the prophet weeps over the violation of friendship.

1. First, he shows the necessity of friends: weeping, as Jerusa…