Matthew Poole Commentary - Lamentations 4:6 - 4:6

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Lamentations 4:6 - 4:6


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punishment signifies also iniquity, as was said in the notes on Lam_3:39. The sins of the Jews are compared to the sins of Sodom, Isa_3:9 Eze_16:46,48,49; hence their rulers are called rulers of Sodom, Isa_1:10; either their sins were specifically the same (as they were) as to many sins, Eze_16:49, or they were of an equal magnitude and provocative nature. The prophet here complains that they were punished like Sodom, Amo_4:11; yea, and their punishment was greater, because more lingering and gradual, whereas Sodom was overthrown in a moment, and that by no human hands that abode upon her, causing her a continued torment, as there did upon the Jews. David said, It is better to fall into the immediate hand of God than into the hands of men.