They have heard ... - Or, They heard that I sigh, that I have no comforter.

Thou wilt bring the day ... - li…

They are glad that you have done it...—Historically, the words refer to the conduct of nations like the Edomites, as described in Psalms 1…

The verb שמעו, shemou, is written twice, but at the beginning without a nominative case; consequently, the sentence is incomplete until in…

They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me ,
&c.] That is, the nations, as the Targum; the neighbour…

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 denounces the fault of others, and in this, he does three things.

1. He denounces the failure of her allies: they have heard<…