Lamentations 1:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Her filthiness. — The picture of pollution is pushed to its most loathsome extreme. The very skirts of the garment are defiled.

She remembereth not... — Better, she remembered not. It was her recklessness as to the future (comp. Deuteronomy 32:29, for the phrase) which brought her down to this “wonderful” and extreme prostration.

O Lord, behold my affliction. — The words are not those of the prophet, but of Zion, anticipating the dramatic personation which begins systematically at Lamentations 1:12.

Lamentations 1:9

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.