John Gill's Exposition on Lamentations 1:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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All her people sigh, etc.] Not her priests only, (<250104>Lamentations 1:4); but all the common people, because of their affliction, particularly for want of bread. So the Targum, “all the people of Jerusalem sigh because of the famine;” for it follows: they seek bread; to eat, as the Targum; inquire where it is to be had, but in vain: they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: or, “to cause the soul to return” f22; to fetch it back when fainting and swooning away through famine; and therefore would give anything for food; part with their rich clothes, jewels, and precious stones; with whatsoever they had that was valuable in their cabinets or coffers, that they might have meat to keep from fainting and dying; to refresh and recruit their spirits spent with hunger: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile; mean, base, and contemptible, in the eyes of men, through penury and want of food; through poverty, affliction, and distress; and therefore desires the Lord would consider her case, and look with pity and compassion on her.

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