Her gates are sunk into the ground - So completely destroyed, that one might suppose they had been swallowed up in an abyss.

Her k…

Her gates ... —The picture of ruin is completed. The gates are broken, and hidden by heaps of rubbish as if they had been…

He again relates in other words what he had said: that the walls of Jerusalem had fallen. He now speaks of the gates, saying that they had sunk…

Her gates are sunk into the ground Either the gates of the city or temple, or both; being broke and demolished, and laid …

A sad representation is made here of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the focus seems mostly to be on the hand of the Lord in th…

Here he weeps over the destruction of people, considering three groups: