For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
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Gill's Exposition
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,.... Out of the fortress of Zion, out of the city of Jerusalem, which was thought to be inexpugnable, and could never be taken; but now a voice is heard out…
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jer 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jer 6:3). So…
Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought…
Cambridge Bible
Co. considers that the v. is a gloss as breaking the connexion between the summons to the wailers and the words which they are bidden to use.
have forsaken a prophetic perfect, meaning must forsake.…
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