The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me,.... As a causeway is trodden; or as mire is trodden under foot in the streets; so were the mighty and valiant men, the soldiers…
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…
Adam Clarke
Called an assembly - The Chaldean army, composed of various nations, which God commissioned to destroy Jerusalem.
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…
Cambridge Bible
hath called a solemn assembly or, sacrificial banquet. Cp. Jer 46:10; Isa 34:6; Eze 39:17 ff.; Zep 1:7 f. The festival is not for Israel but for the enemy, and that which is to be celebrated, the…
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