Zion, as the holy city, is the symbol of the religious life of the people, just as Judah in the previous verse represents their national life. The …

The ways of Zion do mourn. —The words paint what we may call the religious desolation of Jerusalem. The roads leading to …

Jeremiah refers here to another cause of sorrow: that the worship of God had ceased, having been interrupted; indeed, it seemed to have become exti…

The ways of Zion do mourn
Being unoccupied, as in (Judges 5:6); or unfrequented: this is said by a rheto…

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 he deplores the misery of those who remain.

1. With regard to the pilgrims who used to visit her. The ways of Zion …