1 Zion bewails her pitiful estate
13 She confesses her sins
21 Edom is threatened and Zion comforted.

how is the gold 2Ki 25:9,10 Isa 1:21 14:12 Eze 7:19-22

the stones La 2:19 Jer 52:13 Mt 24:2 Mr 13:2 Lu 21:5,6

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

sons Isa 51:18 Zec 9:13

how La 2:21 5:12 Isa 30:14 Jer 19:11 22:28 Ro 9:21-23 2Co 4:7 2Ti 2:20

3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

sea monsters. or sea calves. the daughters La 2:20 4:10 Le 26:29 De 28:52-57 2Ki 6:26-29 Isa 49:15 Jer 19:9 Eze 5:10 Lu 23:28,29

like Job 39:13-16 Ro 1:31

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

tongue Ps 22:15 137:6

the young La 1:11 2:11,12 De 32:24 Mt 7:9-11

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

that die De 28:54-56 Isa 3:16-26 24:6-12 32:9-14 Jer 6:2,3 Am 6:3-7 Lu 7:25 1Ti 5:6 Re 18:7-9

brought 2Sa 1:24 Pr 31:21 Lu 16:19

embrace Job 24:8 Jer 9:21,22 Lu 15:16

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of, iniquity of the daughter Isa 1:9,10 Eze 16:48-50 Mt 11:23,24 Lu 10:12 12:47

the punishment La 4:9 Ge 19:25 Da 9:12 Mt 24:21

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

Nazarites Nu 6:2 Jud 13:5,7 16:17 Am 2:11,12 Lu 1:15

purer 1Sa 16:12 Ps 51:7 144:12 So 5:10 Da 1:15

their polishing. Gizrathom, rendered by Dr. Blayney, 'their veining,' from gazar, to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, 'Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion.'

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

visage La 5:10 Job 30:17-19,30 Joe 2:6 Na 2:10

blacker than a coal. Heb. darker than blackness. Or, as Dr. Blayney renders, 'duskier than the dawn;' shachar signifying 'the dawn of the day, when it is neither light nor dark, but between both, at which time objects are not easily distinguished. they La 4:1,2 Ru 1:19,20 Job 2:12 Isa 52:14

their skins Job 19:20 33:21 Ps 32:4 38:3 102:3-5,11 119:83

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

for Le 26:39 Eze 24:23 33:10

pine away. Heb. flow out.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

hands La 4:3 2:20 2Ki 6:26-29

pitiful Isa 49:15

in La 3:48 De 28:56,57 2Ki 6:29

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Lord La 4:22 2:8,17 De 32:21-25 Jer 6:11,12 7:20 9:9-11 13:14 14:15,16 15:1-4 19:3-11 23:19,20 24:8-10 Eze 20:47,48 22:31 Da 9:12 Zec 1:6 Lu 21:22

kindled De 32:22 Jer 21:14

12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

De 29:24-28 1Ki 9:8,9 Ps 48:4-6

13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

the sins La 2:14 Jer 5:31 6:13 14:14 23:11-21 Eze 22:26-28 Mic 3:11,12 Zep 3:3,4

that Jer 2:20 26:8,9 Mt 23:31,33-37 Lu 11:47-51 Ac 7:52 1Th 2:15,16

14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

have wandered De 28:28,29 Isa 29:10-12 56:10 59:9-11 Mic 3:6,7 Mt 15:14 Eph 4:18

they have polluted Nu 35:33 Isa 1:15 Jer 2:34

so that men could not touch, or, in that they could not but touch Nu 19:16 Ho 4:2

depart ye Nu 16:26 19:16 Ps 6:8 139:19 Mic 2:10 2Co 6:17

it is unclean. or, ye polluted Le 13:45

15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

no reference

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

anger. or face hath Ge 49:7 Le 26:33-39 De 28:25,64,65 32:26 Jer 15:4 24:9

he will Ps 106:44 Heb 8:9

they respected La 5:12 2Ki 25:18-21 2Ch 36:17 Isa 9:14-16

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

our eyes La 1:19 2Ki 24:7 Isa 20:5 30:1-7 31:1-3 Jer 2:18,36 8:20 30:7-10 Eze 29:6,7,16

for a. For the Egyptians, who were their pretended allies; but who were neither able nor willing to help them.

18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

hunt La 3:52 1Sa 24:14 2Ki 25:4,5 Job 10:16 Ps 140:11 Jer 16:16 39:4,5 52:7-9

our end is near Jer 1:12 51:33 Eze 7:2-12 12:22,23,27 Am 8:2

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

persecutors De 28:49 Isa 5:26-28 30:16,17 Jer 4:13 Ho 8:1 Hab 1:8 Mt 24:27

the eagles. The eagle, whose wings are of an extraordinary length, darts with amazing rapidity through the voids of heaven. they pursued Am 2:14 9:1-3

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

breath La 2:9 Ge 2:7 44:30 2Sa 18:3

the anointed 1Sa 12:3,5 16:6 24:6,10 26:9,16 2Sa 1:14,21 19:21 Ps 89:20,21

was taken Jer 39:5 52:8 Eze 12:13 17:18 19:4-8

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

be glad Ps 83:3-12 137:7 Ec 11:9 Eze 25:6,8 26:2 35:11-15 Ob 1:10-16

the land Ge 36:28 Job 1:1

the cup Isa 34:1 63:1-6 Jer 25:15-29 49:12 Eze 25:12-14 35:3-9 Am 1:11 Ob 1:1,10 Mal 1:2-4

and shalt 2Ch 28:19 Mic 1:11 Re 16:15

22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

the punishment of thine iniquity. or Thine iniquity La 4:6 Isa 40:2 Jer 46:27,28 50:20

he will no Isa 52:1 60:18 Jer 32:40 Eze 37:28

he will visit La 4:21 Ps 137:7

discover thy sins. or carry thee captive for thy sins