Pitiful – that is, tender-hearted, compassionate. Meat is used for food (Psalms 69:21). What is here stated actually occurred du…

The hands of the pitiful women.—See Note on Lamentations 2:20.

Here Jeremiah refers to that disgraceful and abominable deed mentioned yesterday; for it was not only a barbarity, but a beastly savageness, when m…

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children ,
&c.] Such as were naturally, and agreeably to their …

What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Ch…

Here he presents the immense hunger of mothers, who, in their extreme hunger, ate their own children: shall women then eat their own fruit, …