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Lamentations 1:12

Lamentations 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?.... O ye strangers and travellers that pass by, and see my distress, does it not at all concern you? does it not in the least affect you? can you look upon…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Lamentations 1:12-16

The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lam 1:13 It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued. He hath turned me back - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to escape, but…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? - The desolations and distress brought upon this city and its inhabitants had scarcely any parallel. Excessive abuse of God's accumulated mercies calls for…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Lamentations 1:12-22

The complaints here are, for substance, the same with those in the foregoing part of the chapter; but in these verses the prophet, in the name of the lamenting church, does more particularly…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Lamentations 1:12-22

See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous v., now speaks.