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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 1:1 - 1:1
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Aleph
how is she ... widow! she that was great, etc. - English Version is according to the accents. But the members of each sentence are better balanced in antithesis, thus, “how is she that was great among the nations become as a widow! (how) she who was princess among the provinces (that is, she who ruled over the surrounding provinces from the Nile to the Euphrates, Gen 15:18; 1Ki 4:21; 2Ch 9:26; Ezr 4:20) become tributary!” [Maurer].
sit - on the ground; the posture of mourners (Lam 2:10; Ezr 9:3). The coin struck on the taking of Jerusalem by Titus, representing Judea as a female sitting solitary under a palm tree, with the inscription, Judaea Capta, singularly corresponds to the image here; the language therefore must be prophetical of her state subsequent to Titus, as well as referring retrospectively to her Babylonian captivity.