Isaiah 32:12

“They shall lament for the teats, &c.] Either of the beasts of the field, that should be dried up, and give no milk, through the great drought that should be upon the land; or through the waste of the herbage by the enemy; or else of the women, their breasts and paps, which should afford no milk for their infants, through the famine that should press them sore, which would occasion great lamentation, both in mothers and children; though some think are to be understood of the fields, and are explained by them in the next clause; the fruitful earth being compared to a woman, its fields are like breasts or paps, which yield food and nourishment, but now should not afford any, and therefore there…”

“lament for . . . teats--rather, shall smite on their breasts in lamentation "for thy pleasant fields" (Nah 2:7) [MAURER]. "Teats" in English Version is used for fertile lands, which, like breasts, nourish life. The transition from "ye" to "they" (Isa 32:11-12) is frequent.”

“They shall lament for the teats - Interpreters have been not a little perplexed by this expression. Lowth supposes it is to be taken in connection with the previous verse, and that it denotes that sackcloth was to be girded upon the breast as well as upon the loins. Others have supposed that it denotes to ‘smite upon the breasts,’ as a token of grief; others, that the word ‘breast’ here denotes children by a synecdoche, as having been nourished by the breast, and that the women here were called to mourn over their children. But it is evident, I think, that the word breasts here is used to denote that which nourishes or sustains life, and is synonymous with fruitful fields. It is so used in…”

“The teats - For the pleasant and fruitful fields, which like teats yielded you plentiful and excellent nourishment. Isaiah 32:13”

“lament: Lam 2:11, Lam 4:3, Lam 4:4 pleasant fields: Heb. fields of desire, Deu 8:7, Deu 8:8, Deu 11:11, Deu 11:12; Eze 20:6, Eze 20:15 Isaiah 32:13”