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Sin's Public Shame
Commentators explain that the phrase "her filthiness was in her skirts" paints a graphic picture of public shame. Like a stained garment that cannot be hidden, Jerusalem's punishment for her sin was on full display for all to see. Her downfall was not a private matter but a visible, unavoidable disgrace, demonstrating the open consequences of rebellion against God.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 1:9
18th Century
Theologian
Her filthiness is in her skirts — Her personal defilement is no longer concealed beneath the garments (Jeremiah 13:22).…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 1:9
19th Century
Bishop
Her filthiness. —The picture of pollution is pushed to its most loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled.
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 1:9
16th Century
Theologian
He continues here, I believe, with the same subject; he had said at the end of the last verse that turpitude or baseness had been seen at Jerusalem…
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John Gill
On Lamentations 1:9
17th Century
Pastor
Her filthiness [is] in her skirts
Her sin is manifest to all, being to be seen in her punishment. The allusion is to…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 1:1–11
17th Century
Minister
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.…