The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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Gill's Exposition
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence,.... Who used to sit in the gate on thrones of judgment, and passed sentence in causes tried before them; or were wont to give…
Adam Clarke
Sit upon the ground - See the note on Lam 1:1.
Keep silence - No words can express their sorrows: small griefs are eloquent, great ones dumb.
Justly are these called Lamentations, and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel's roll, Eze 2:10.
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Cambridge Bible
In this and the two following vv. we have the picture of the state of things in Jerusalem after the king, etc. (Lam 2:2) had been carried into exile. The half-starving people are left behind in their…
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