They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
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Gill's Exposition
They say to their mothers, where is corn and wine?.... Not the sucklings who could not speak, nor were used to corn and wine, but the children more grown; both are before spoken of, but these are…
Barnes' Notes
They say - Or, “They keep saying:” it was an oft-repeated cry, even while expiring upon their mother’s bosom.
Adam Clarke
When their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom - When, in endeavoring to draw nourishment from the breasts of their exhausted mothers, they breathed their last in their bosoms! How…
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.
I.…
Cambridge Bible
corn and wine Omit "and wine," not only from the nature of the case, and for the sake of correct metre, but because the Heb. word is not that elsewhere used in combination with "corn."
their soul is…