Compare the scene around the cross of the Redeemer (Matthew 27:39).

All that pass by. — The triumphant exultation of the enemies of Zion came to add bitterness to her sorrows. They reminded her of what she …

The Prophet here reminds the Jews of the miseries by which they had already been extremely afflicted, so that these words seem redundant and somewh…

All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee Travellers that passed by, and saw Jerusalem in ruins, clapped their hands at…

Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands and eaten, according t…

Here he presents the astonishment of the spectators:

1. Of friends.
2. Of enemies, as in the verse, all your enemies have op…