And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Ver. 26. And her gates shall lament.] Because unfrequented. Lam 1:4
And the king desolate.] Swept and wiped of all; not, as once, with her turrified head a and stretched forth neck.
Sitteth upon the ground.] As a sad mourner. Money was coined by Vespasian with a woman sitting at the root of a palm tree, and this inscription, Iudaea capta. The Jews captured.
a πυργουν κεφαλην. - Nazian.