Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
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Gill's Exposition
Her adversaries are the chief,.... Or, "for the head" (n); or are the head, as was threatened, Deu 28:44; and now fulfilled; the Chaldeans having got the dominion over the Jews, and obliged them to be…
Barnes' Notes
Are the chief ... prosper - Or, “are become the head”... are at rest. Judaea is so entirely crushed that her enemies did not need to take precautions against resistance on her part. Children - i. e.…
Adam Clarke
Her adversaries are the chief - They have now supreme dominion over the whole land.
Those that have any disposition to weep with those that weep, one would think, should scarcely be able to refrain from tears at the reading of these verses, so very pathetic are the lamentations…
Cambridge Bible
are become the head There may be a reference to Deu 28:13; Deu 28:44.
prosper lit. are at peace. Cp. Jer 12:1 ("are … at ease").
for the multitude, etc.] The acknowledgement that Israel's calamities…
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