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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 4:6 - 4:6
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greater than ... Sodom - (Mat 11:23). No prophets had been sent to Sodom, as there had been to Judea; therefore the punishment of the latter was heavier than that of the former.
overthrown ... in a moment - whereas the Jews had to endure the protracted and manifold hardships of a siege.
no hands stayed on her - No hostile force, as the Chaldeans in the case of Jerusalem, continually pressed on her before her overthrow. Jeremiah thus shows the greater severity of Jerusalem’s punishment than that of Sodom.