I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
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Gill's Exposition
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me,.... Either her idols, with whom she had committed spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry; but these could not answer her expectations, and help her: or the…
Barnes' Notes
I called for ... - Rather, to “my lovers.” While they sought their meat - literally, “for they sought food for themselves to revive their souls.” Complete the sense by adding, “and found none.”
Adam Clarke
I called for my lovers - My allies; the Egyptians and others.
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
my lovers See on Lam 1:1.
meat to refresh their souls See on Lam 1:1. The LXX add (but unnecessarily, and with injury to the metre), and found it not.
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