the mountains as a solitary place, and therefore fittest both for lamentations, and for her preparation for her approaching calamity.
Bewail my virginity; that I shall die childless, which was esteemed both a curse and a disgrace for the Israelites, Gen_30:231Sa_1:6 7 Isa 4:1, because such were excluded from that great privilege of increasing the holy seed, and contributing to the birth of the Messiah, who was to be born of an Israelitish woman.