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Lam_1:5 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.
Ver. 5. Her adversaries are the chief.] Heb, Are for the head. This was threatened. {Deu_28:13-14; Deu_28:43-44} This, when it happens, is a great grief to the godly. Therefore the prophet Nahum, for the comfort of God’s Israel, is wholly in setting forth the destruction of their enemies, the Assyrians.
Her enemies prosper.] See Jer_12:1. They prevail, and do what they wish; so that there seemeth to be neither hope of better, nor place for worse.
For the Lord hath afflicted her.] Not so much her adversaries and enemies, or her oppressors and haters, as the words properly signify - that is, those that oppress them in action, and hate them in affection. {a}
Her children are gone into captivity.] Those that were able to go; for the rest were slain. {Lam_4:9}
Before the enemy.] Driven before them, as cattle.
{a} Cavet Scriptura ne haec potestas detur adversariis. - Oecolamp.