Why do we sit still? (i) assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of (k) gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
(i) He speaks in the person of the people, who when the enemy comes will turn about to hide themselves and acknowledge that it is God's hand.
(k) That is, has brought us into extreme affliction, and thus they will not attribute this plague to fortune, but to God's just judgment, (Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15).