And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
Ver. 13. And now she is planted in a wilderness.] Babylon was no wilderness, but fruitful beyond credulity, a But the poor captive Jews had little joy from it, for some time at least.
In a dry and thirsty ground.] In terra sicca et sitioulosa. So it was to them, though never so well watered, because they wanted there the waters of the sanctuary, and many other comforts of their own country. See Psalms 137:1,6
a Herodot., lib. i. cap. 193; Plin., lib. vi. cap. 26.