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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 1:9 - 1:9
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Teth
Continuation of the image in Lam 1:8. Her ignominy and misery cannot be concealed but are apparent to all, as if a woman were suffering under such a flow as to reach the end of her skirts.
remembereth not ... last end - (Deu 32:29; Isa 47:7). She forgot how fatal must be the end of her iniquity. Or, as the words following imply: She, in despair, cannot lift herself up to lay hold of God’s promises as to her “latter end” [Calvin].
wonderfully - Hebrew, “wonders,” that is, with amazing dejection.
O Lord, behold - Judah here breaks in, speaking for herself.
for the enemy hath magnified himself - What might seem ground for despair, the elated insulting of the enemy, is rather ground for good hope.