Because of ... – that is, the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and…

Because of affliction. — The Authorised Version suggests the thought that the words refer to the voluntary emigration of …

Interpreters apply this, but in my view improperly, to the captivity of the people. On the contrary, the Prophet means that the Jews had been scatt…

Judah is gone into captivity
Not only Jerusalem the metropolis of Judea was destroyed, but the whole country was rav…

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 author writes in detail about the misfortune of their servitude in order to show its greatness.