Lamentations 1:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Is it nothing to you... — Literally, Not to you, ye passers by, which the Authorised version takes as a question. The LXX. and Vulg., however, seem to have taken the adverb as an interjection: “O all ye that pass by...” And some interpreters have taken the negative but not the question, “Nor to you ... (do I say this). The Authorised version, however, has most to commend it. What the mourning city felt most keenly was that her unparalleled sufferings were met with an unparalleled indifference.

Lamentations 1:12

12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.