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All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: Look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
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The High Price of Survival
Commentators emphasize the extreme desperation of the famine. The people were not just hungry; they were trading their most precious possessions and heirlooms for a single meal. The phrase "to refresh the soul" literally means to bring life back from the brink of death, showing the severity of their suffering.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Sigh ... seek — Are sighing ... are seeking. The words are present participles, describing the condition of the people. After a siege …
19th Century
Anglican
All her people sigh....—The words which describe the famine at Jerusalem are in the present tense, either as painting the…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here complains that all the citizens of Jerusalem were constantly groaning because of lack and famine. He first says that all were …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All her people sigh Not her priests only, (Lamentations 1:4); but all the common people, because of their affliction, p…
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.…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the prophet describes the loss of their possessions by detailing what they were forced to give up.
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