1 The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins
12 The attention and compassion of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case
18 The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated, with prayers against insulting foes.

how doth. The LXX. have the following words as an introduction: 'And it came to pass after Israel had been carried captive, and Jerusalem was become desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said.' La 2:1 4:1 Isa 14:12 Jer 50:23 Zep 2:15 Re 18:16,17

sit La 2:10 Isa 3:26 47:1 50:5 52:2 Jer 9:11 Eze 26:16

full Ps 122:4 Isa 22:2 Zec 8:4,5

as a Isa 47:8,9 54:4 Re 18:7

great 1Ki 4:21 2Ch 9:26 Ezr 4:20

how is La 5:16 2Ki 23:33,35 Ne 5:4 9:37

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

weepeth La 1:16 2:11,18,19 Job 7:3 Ps 6:6 77:2-6 Jer 9:1,17-19 13:17

among La 1:19 Jer 4:30 22:20-22 30:14 Eze 16:37 23:22-24 Ho 2:7 Re 17:13,16

none La 1:9,16,17,21 Isa 51:18,19

all her friends Job 6:15 19:13,14 Ps 31:11 Pr 19:7 Mic 7:5

3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

gone 2Ki 24:14,15 25:11,21 2Ch 36:20,21 Jer 39:9 52:15,27-30

because of great servitude. Heb. for the greatness of servitude. she La 2:9 Le 26:36-39 De 28:64-67 Jer 24:9 Eze 5:12

all La 4:18,19 Jer 16:16 52:8 Am 9:1-4

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

ways La 2:6,7 5:13 Isa 24:4-6 Jer 14:2 Mic 3:12

all her gates La 2:9 Jer 9:11 10:22 33:10-12

her priests La 1:11,12,18-20 2:10,11,19-21 Isa 32:9-14 Joe 1:8-13

5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

Adversaries La 2:17 3:46 Le 26:17 De 28:43,44 Ps 80:6 89:42 Isa 63:18 Jer 12:7 Mic 7:8-10

for La 1:18 3:39-43 Le 26:15 De 4:25-27 28:15 29:18-28 31:16-18,29 32:15-27 2Ch 36:14-16 Ne 9:33,34 Ps 90:7,8 Jer 5:3-9,29 23:14 30:14,15 44:21,22 Eze 8:17,18 9:9 22:24-31 Da 9:7-16 Mic 3:9-12 Zep 3:1-8

her children Jer 39:9 52:27-30

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

from 2Ki 19:21 Ps 48:2,3 Isa 1:21 4:5 12:6 Zep 3:14-17

all La 2:1-7 Ps 50:2 96:9 132:12,13 Jer 52:8,11,13 Eze 7:20-22 11:22,23 24:21,25

her princes Le 26:36,37 De 28:25 32:30 Jos 7:12,13 Ps 44:9-11 Jer 29:4 48:41 51:30-32 52:7

harts Jer 14:5,6 47:3

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

remembered Job 29:2 30:1 Ps 42:4 77:3,5-9 Ho 2:7 Lu 15:17 16:25

all her De 4:7,8,34-37 8:7-9 Ps 147:19,20 Isa 5:1-4

pleasant. or, desirable La 1:10

the adversaries La 2:15,16 Ps 79:4 137:3,4 Mic 4:11

8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

hath La 1:5,20 1Ki 8:46,47 9:7,9 Isa 59:2-13 Jer 6:28 Eze 14:13-21 22:2-15

removed. Heb. become a removing or wandering Jer 15:4 24:9 34:17 Eze 23:46

all La 4:15,16 5:12-16 1Sa 2:30

they La 4:21 Isa 47:3 Jer 13:22,26 Eze 16:37-39 23:29 Ho 2:3,10 Re 3:18

she sigheth La 1:4,11,21,22 2:10 Jer 4:31

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

filthiness La 1:17 Jer 2:34 13:27 Eze 24:12,13

she remembereth De 32:29 Isa 47:7 Jer 5:31 1Pe 4:17

came La 1:1 4:1 Isa 3:8 Jer 13:17,18

she had La 1:2,17,21 2:13 Ec 4:1 Isa 40:2 54:11 Ho 2:14 Joh 11:19

behold Ex 3:7,17 4:31 De 26:7 1Sa 1:11 2Sa 16:12 2Ki 14:26 Ne 9:32 Ps 25:18 119:153 Da 9:17-19

for De 32:27 Ps 74:8,9,22,23 140:8 Isa 37:4,17,23,29 Jer 48:26 50:29 Zep 2:10 2Th 2:4-8

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

spread La 1:7 Isa 5:13,14 Jer 15:13 20:5 52:17-20

pleasant. or desirable La 1:7

seen Ps 74:4-8 79:1-7 Isa 63:18 64:10,11 Jer 51:51 52:13 Eze 7:22 9:7

whom De 23:3 Ne 13:1 Eze 44:7 Mr 13:14

11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

seek La 1:19 2:12 4:4-10 De 28:52-57 2Ki 6:25 Jer 19:9 38:9 52:6 Eze 4:15-17 5:16,17

relieve the soul. Heb. make the soul to come again 1Sa 30:11,12

see La 1:9,20 2:20 Job 40:4 Ps 25:15-19

12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

is it nothing. or it is nothing. pass by. Heb. pass by the way. if. The church in distress here magnifies her affliction; and yet no more than there was cause for her groaning was not heavier than her strokes. She appeals to all spectators--see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. This might truly be said of the griefs which were suffered in Jerusalem of old; but Christians are apt to apply these words too sensibly and sensitively to themselves, when they are in trouble, and sometimes more than there is reasonable cause to warrant. All men feel most from their own burden, and cannot be persuaded to reconcile themselves to it; how often do thy cry out in the words we are illustrating! whereas, if their troubles were to be thrown into a common stock with those of others, and then an equal dividend made, share and share alike, rather than approve such an arrangement, each would be ready to say, 'Pray give me my own again.'--Henry La 2:13 4:6-11 Da 9:12 Mt 24:21 Lu 21:22,23 23:28-31

13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

above La 2:3,4 De 32:21-25 Job 30:30 Ps 22:14 31:10 102:3-5 Na 1:6 Hab 3:16 2Th 1:8 Heb 12:29

he hath spread La 4:17-20 Job 18:8 19:6 Ps 66:11 Eze 12:13 17:20 32:3 Ho 7:12

he hath turned Ps 35:4 70:2,3 129:5 Isa 42:17

desolate La 1:22 5:17 De 28:65 Jer 4:19-29

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

yoke De 28:48 Pr 5:22 Isa 14:25 47:6 Jer 27:8,12 28:14

delivered Jer 25:9 34:20,21 37:17 39:1-9 Eze 11:9 21:31 23:28 25:4,7 Ho 5:14

15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

trodden 2Ki 9:33 24:14-16 25:4 Ps 119:118 Isa 5:5 28:18 Da 3:13 Mic 7:10 Mal 4:3 Lu 21:24 Heb 10:29

crush La 3:34 De 28:33 Jud 10:8 Jer 51:34

the virgin or the winepress of the virgin Jer 14:17

as in Isa 63:3 Re 14:19,20 19:15

16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

I weep La 1:2,9 2:11,18 3:48,49 Ps 119:136 Jer 9:1,10 13:17 14:17 Lu 19:41-44 Ro 9:1-3

relieve. Heb. bring back Ho 9:12

my children La 1:5,6 2:20-22 4:2-10 Jer 9:21

17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

spreadeth 1Ki 8:22,38 Isa 1:15 Jer 4:31

none La 1:2,9,16,19,21

commanded La 2:1-8,17-22 2Ki 24:2-4 25:1 Jer 6:3 16:6 21:4,5 34:22 Eze 7:23,24 Ho 8:8 Lu 19:43,44

Jerusalem La 1:9 4:15 Le 15:19-27 Eze 36:17

18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lord Ex 9:27 De 32:4 Jud 1:7 Ezr 9:13 Ne 9:33 Ps 119:75 145:17 Jer 12:1 Da 9:7,14 Zep 3:5 Ro 2:5 3:19 Re 15:3,4 16:5-7

for I La 3:42 1Sa 12:14,15 15:23 Ne 1:6-8 9:26 Ps 107:11 Da 9:9-16

commandment Heb. mouth 1Ki 13:21

hear La 1:12 De 29:22-28 1Ki 9:8,9 Jer 22:8,9 25:28,29 49:12 Eze 14:22,23

my virgins La 1:5,6 De 28:32-41

19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

for La 1:2 4:17 Job 19:13-19 Jer 2:28 30:14 37:7-9

my priests La 1:11 2:20 4:7-9 5:12 Jer 14:15-18 23:11-15 27:13-15

20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

behold La 1:9,11 Isa 38:14

my bowels La 2:11 Job 30:27 Ps 22:14 Isa 16:11 Jer 4:19 31:20 48:36 Ho 11:8 Hab 3:16

for La 1:18 Le 26:40-42 1Ki 8:47-50 Job 33:27 Ps 51:3,4 Pr 28:13 Jer 2:35 3:13 Lu 15:18,19 18:13,14

abroad La 4:9,10 De 32:25 Jer 9:21,22 14:18 Eze 7:15

21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

have heard that La 1:2,8,11,12,16,22

they are La 2:15 4:21,22 Ps 35:15 38:16 137:7 Jer 48:27 50:11 Eze 25:3,6,8,15 26:2 Ob 1:12,13

thou wilt Isa 13:1 14:1 47:1 Jer 25:17-29 46:1 47:1 48:1 49:1 50:1 51:1 Eze 25:1 26:1 27:1 28:1 29:1 30:1 31:1 32:1 Am 1:1

the day Ps 37:13 Joe 3:14

called or proclaimed. they shall La 4:22 De 32:41-43 Ps 137:8,9 Isa 51:22,23 Jer 50:15,29,31 51:24,49 Mic 7:9,10 Hab 2:15-17 Re 18:6

22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

all their Ne 4:4,5 Ps 109:14,15 137:7-9 Jer 10:25 18:23 51:35 Lu 23:31 Re 6:10

my heart La 1:13 5:17 Isa 13:7 Jer 8:18 Eph 3:13