Therefore said I, &c. “Behold the prophet here anticipating those lamentations which he was afterward to pour forth, and which Jeremiah so pathetically poured forth, an eye-witness of this calamity. For the expressions here are too strong to be applied to any other calamity than the great and final one, when the Jews were carried captives to Babylon;”
of which the prophet had a clear foresight. Look away from me Take off your eyes and thoughts from me, and leave me alone, that I may take my fill of sorrow. Labour not to comfort me For all your labour will be lost. I neither can nor will receive any consolation. Because of the spoiling, &c. Of that city and nation, whereof I am a member. The title of daughter is often given both to cities and nations, as hath been observed before. For it is a day of treadling down In which my people are trodden under foot by their insolent enemies; and of perplexity by the Lord of hosts This is added, partly to show, that this did not happen without God's providence; and partly to aggravate their calamity, because, not only men, but God himself fought against them; breaking down the walls Of the strong cities of Judah; which was done both by Sennacherib and by Nebuchadnezzar; and of crying to the mountains With such loud and dismal outcries as should reach to the neighbouring mountains. “Who does not see,” says Vitringa, “in Isaiah, thus weeping over Jerusalem, a type of Jesus weeping over this same city in its last extremity?”