Our mothers are as widows - The particle “as” suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable onl…

Our mothers are as widows — i.e., their husbands, though living, were carried into exile, and they were as destitute as t…

Here the Prophet not only speaks for the whole people, but also utters the groans and complaints of each one; for this could not have been suitable…

We are orphans and fatherless In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine,…

Is anyone afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they do not complain of evils…