John Gill's Exposition on Lamentations 1:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed, etc.] The kingdom removed; the priesthood ceased; the temple, their beautiful house, burnt; the palaces of their king and nobles demolished; and everything in church and state that was glorious were now no more: her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture; that are heartless and without courage, fearful and timorous, as harts are, especially when destitute of food. The Targum is “her princes run about for food, as harts run about in the wilderness, and find no place fit for pasture:” and they are gone without strength before the pursuer; having no spirit nor courage to oppose the enemy, nor strength to flee from him, they fell into his hands, and so were carried captive; (see <245208>Jeremiah 52:8-10). Jarchi observes, that the word for “pursuer” has here all its letters, and nowhere else; and so denotes the full pursuit of the enemy, and the complete victory obtained by him.

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